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A man and a woman stand in a field of wheat, examining the growing plants

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A global alliance of countries and research institutions, including Cornell, committed to sharing plant genetic material, has secured food access for billions of people, but a patchwork of legal restrictions threatens humanity’s ability to feed...
  • International Programs
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
Andrew McDonald

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New faculty member Andrew McDonald is an associate professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section with a focus on cropping systems ecology and sustainable agricultural development.
Corrie Moreau posing near book shelf

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Corrie Moreau is a professor in the Department of Entomology, the Martha N. and John C. Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity and curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC) in the Department of Entomology.
Katherine Sender

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Professor Sender focuses her research and teaching on gender, sexuality, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer media.
Illustration of apple trees and roots

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Apple-growing operations over the past half-century have undergone a stark transformation. But the story of the modern apple orchard begins in many ways below ground.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
Ground robot and drone monitoring crops in field

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Rapid and radical changes are happening across agriculture as digital technology expands a farmer’s capacity to produce high-quality, nutritious food.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
Barstow in his lab

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Buz Barstow , assistant professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering Academic focus : I’m an applied physicist working on synthetic biology and sustainable energy. Previous positions : Burroughs-Wellcome Fund CASI fellow...
Denis Willett in front of a tree

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Peter Hitchcock sits in a chair on campus

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Liz Johnson in a garden

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Headshot of Martin Hogue

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Maragaret Frank in her lab holding a plant

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Jennifer Birkeland on Cornell's Campus

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Jillian Goldfarb stands in her lab

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Kristan Reed standing in the cow barn

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Andrew Moeller standing in a hallway at Corson Hall

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Pete McIntyre sitting on a stone bridge at Beebee Lake

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Tory Hendry holding a plant in her lab

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