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News

New research confirms glyphosate-resistant waterhemp for the first time in New York state, with significant consequences for soybean growers, many of whom use the herbicide as their primary method of weed control.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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More than five years after a landmark study in the journal Science showed that North American bird populations declined by nearly 30% since 1970, a new report finds that the concerning trend is continuing apace.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Biodiversity
COMM UPDATES from the Department of Communication

News

Conferences Associate Professor Wunpini Mohammed presented “Building Liberatory Futures in Ghanaian Feminist Movements” at the Decolonizing Gender & Sexualities Conference at University of California, Berkeley. This project presents current...
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In the face of climate change, researchers estimate the U.S. investment in agricultural research needed to maintain productivity - finding it comparable to the investment made following the two world wars.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
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The United States and Canada have been fighting about milk for years, but new Cornell research suggests recent Canadian trade concessions removed some barriers to U.S. dairy exports.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
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News

With high-speed cameras, researchers measured the physical forces involved in a handclap, with potential applications in bioacoustics and identification, whereby a handclap could be used to identify someone.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Behavior
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News

A new study using the largest network of microphones to track birds in the United States is providing crucial insights for managing and restoring fire-prone forests across California’s Sierra Nevada region.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment
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News

William Boyle ’55, MBA ’56, has given a significant gift to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to support renovations to the Plant Science Building – the largest gift so far to the current college campaign. “Cornell has been a...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
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Field Note

Global food producers face increasing pressure to meet sustainability and nutritional demands. As a result, farmers need practical solutions to produce more food while minimizing environmental impact and ensuring both animal and human health...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Food
A participant immersing themselves in Black Spaces Matter, a traveling exhibition curated by Pamela Karimi that explores the historical post-industrial city of New Bedford (2017–2019).

News

Thirteen faculty members from across Cornell are being honored by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement with this year’s Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Energy
  • Climate Change
An illustration using figures called “similarity trees,” used to infer the evolution of enzyme components essential to transposons, or “jumping genes,” functioning.

News

Researchers identified several families of "jumping genes," or transposons, in cyanobacteria and Streptomyces that can find and insert themselves at the telomere, with benefits for the transposon and their bacterial host.

  • Microbiology
  • Evolution
  • Genetics
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News

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
COMM UPDATES from the Department of Communication

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Employment News Graduate Student Pengfei Zhao has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Events On Monday, March 10, 2:55, Associate Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., is...
Benjamin Z. Houlton, center, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, discusses net-zero dairy with Catharine Young, right, executive director of the New York State Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture, and Saharah Moon Chapotin, executive director of the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, at the 2024 Grow-NY Summit in Ithaca.

News

Startups in the food and agriculture sectors can apply through May 15.

  • Agriculture
  • Food
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News

Faculty and staff from across Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell CALS) came together on March 3 to honor 38 awardees at the annual CALS Faculty and Staff Awards.
New York State Assemblyperson Anna Kelles (D-125th District) addresses an Emerson Hall audience on Feb. 28 during “What’s Next for STEM Research,” an expert panel organized by the graduate student-led Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club.

News

Experts discussed support for science research during a pair of panels organized by faculty and students on Feb. 28.

  • Communication
Amy Barkley holding a chicken on her farm.

News

Amy Barkley is a livestock specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Southwest New York Dairy Livestock and Field Crops Program. Although Amy specializes in poultry, she also supports farmers with beef, sheep, goats, camelids, swine...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Cornell Atkinson is supporting 36 graduate students whose work protects biodiversity, improves health, reduces climate risk and more.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Field Note

Biomethane from New York’s dairy manure and food waste could fuel over 30,000 tractor trailers annually, displacing at least 300 million gallons of diesel. * 12 percent of the NY dairy herd has implemented manure anaerobic digestion (AD) to...
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animals
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News

Conferences Graduate student Amanda Vilchez (with Eddy Machaca) presented “Beyond Language: Collaborative Translation and Cultural Recovery in Science Communication with Quechua Communities” at the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program...