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Animal Science alum Laura Rubinate ‘01’s involvement with equestrian comes full circle
Animal Science alumna, Laura Rubinate '01, talks about her experience on the equestrian team, medical school and wanting to give back to Big Red athletics.
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
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Human behavior and the reshaping of the world

  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Environment
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John Helmann: Learning the genetic steps in the dance of life
At its most fundamental level, life is a dance between a shifting array of microscopic partners. To unlock the cellular choreography, John D. Helmann, professor of microbiology, has devoted his career to studying a single-celled bacterium known...
  • Microbiology
  • Disease
  • Bacteria
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Confidence is key for Spencer Lane, class of 2013
However, Lane's radiating confidence wasn't inherent from a young age. Instead, it was something that was learned, something that was impressed upon her at Cornell, where she graduated from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. It just...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Communication
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Learning Curve: Communication course offers some normalcy in COVID semester
In normal times, an audience of that size would be a sparse turnout for a venue that can accommodate more than 1,300. But due to the need for social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19, there are just 100 available spots scattered...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Meet our faculty: Angeline Pendergrass
Academic focus: Extreme precipitation, Earth’s hydrologic cycle and climate change Research summary: I study precipitation and the flow of water and energy through the climate system with which it is associated. My interests include extreme...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Water
  • Climate Change
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Meet our faculty: Anne Weber
Academic focus: Working landscapes, green and living infrastructures, resiliency planning, rural design, community engagement Research summary: My research focuses on rural landscapes, particularly landscapes of extraction, production and...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
  • Climate Change
Zaneta Hong

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Meet our faculty: Zaneta Hong
Academic focus: Art + design, ecology + technology, materials + innovation Research summary: Landscape architects and designers actively participate in the expansive reorganization of Earth’s matter, energy and form. While the circumstances of...
  • Landscape Architecture
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Meet our faculty: Suzanne Bliven Shu
Academic focus: Marketing, consumer behavior, behavioral economics and consumer financial decision making Research summary: I’m trained in the area of behavioral economics, and my research is on consumer judgment and decision making. Much of my...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Physiology
  • Behavior

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Meet our faculty: Nathan Yang

Academic focus: Marketing, behavioral analytics, empirical industrial organization, (mobile) health and wellness, and retail strategy Research summary: My recent research has been focused on leveraging behavioral science, big data, machine...

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Behavior

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Meet our faculty: Nathalie Trottier

Academic focus: My primary responsibility and focus at Cornell is teaching in the area of animal nutrition. This fall semester, I am teaching a new course on nutrition of felids and canids (cats and dogs), and in spring of 2021, I will be...

  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Health + Nutrition

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Meet our faculty: Meredith Holgerson

Academic focus: Freshwater ecology Research summary: I study ponds, which I think of as underdogs in freshwater science. Ponds dot the landscape, comprising over 75% of the world’s lakes, not including the hundreds of millions of additional...

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Water

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Meet our faculty: Megan Greischar

Academic focus: Within-host ecology and the evolution of parasite traits Research summary: My research focuses on parasite life history within the host — that is, the timing of replication and transmission — traits that are not easy to...

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Disease
  • Biology
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Meet our faculty: Louis Longchamps
Academic focus: I research how precision agriculture, on-farm experimentation, data science, and soil, crop and environment sensing can improve the way we manage our crops — to the benefit of farmers and the environment. Research summary: I did...
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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Meet our faculty: Flavio Lehner
Academic focus: Climate variability and change Research summary: I study the statistics and mechanisms of climate variability on regional to global scales. Our focus is on atmospheric processes, but since many weather and climate phenomena...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Planet
Elad Tako standing in a black sweater with his arms folded against a white wall

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Meet our faculty: Elad Tako
Academic focus: Nutrigenomics, trace mineral bioavailability, dietary mineral deficiencies, physiological biomarkers, bioactive compounds, the microbiome, and the functionality and morphology of the small intestinal brush border membrane (which...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition

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Meet our faculty: Courtney Murdock

Academic focus: Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, eco-immunology, life history, mosquito-borne disease transmission, host-pathogen interactions Research summary: A main driver of vector-borne disease transmission is the ecology of...

  • Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases
  • Entomology
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Farmers’ organizations can reduce poverty and promote sustainability
For more than a century, farmers’ organizations have assisted agricultural producers in accessing credit, negotiating for needed inputs, and ensuring a higher price for farm goods. In the face of climate change, these organizations may also be...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Plants
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Ceres2030 project aims to help smallholder farmers cope with climate change
In academic publishing, one measurement of a work’s importance is how many other academics have cited it. This long-standing system has the benefit of simplicity and helping to form a common knowledge base. But especially for those working to...
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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To make agriculture sustainable, governments must prioritize policy
The rich biodiversity of the Ecuadorian cloud forests has fascinated naturalists and tourists for generations, which is why the region has also served as a laboratory for an array of conservation programs and policies. Protecting ecosystems...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Plants