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Briefings, Conference Presentations, Symposia, Panels & Workshops Graduate student Luke Dye presented a paper at the National Communication Association annual conference entitled “How Do Servicemembers and Romantic Partners Talk about...
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Fifty-four research projects addressing New York’s agriculture, environment and communities have collectively received $1.6 million from the USDA.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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A tool co-developed by Cornell researchers uses AI and machine learning to solve and predict how human proteins might interface and interact with other proteins, which can greatly accelerate fundamental research and clinical precision medicine.

  • Computational Biology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
A Florida scrub-jay

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Warmer winters driven by climate change reduced the number of offspring raised annually by the federally threatened Florida scrub-jay by 25% since 1981, according to a study co-led by researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Climate Change
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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Methods PRO-DAIRY and Cornell Cooperative Extension farm business management educators work closely with dairy operators to complete the DFBS on an annual basis. Farms contribute detailed financial, production, and labor information. Farm...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Jamey Tielens, left, and Ben Brotman consult on a recent brewing day at Liquid State Brewing Company. Brotman says the state’s brewers organizations “keep brewers in touch with other breweries and build a sense of camaraderie.” Photo by Jason Koski.

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In 2023, craft beer production in the U.S. declined by 1%, which is the worst on record since the Brewers Association began tracking the industry in the late 1970s. New York fared better.

  • Cornell Craft Beverage Institute
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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The dairy industry is complex and far-reaching. From production to financial management to agribusiness long-range planning, dairy demands many skillsets to keep the industry humming. To prepare students for careers in this dynamic industry, the...
  • Dairy Fellows Program
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
A groundskeeper for the University of Rwanda picks day lily greens at a training in August.

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Two alums are leading an effort to give Rwandan farmers the tools to grow and sell grains - with the ultimate goal of lifting communities out of poverty and improving food security across East Africa.

  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
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Farm Business Management team adds two new members Lainey Koval (pictured left) has been working part-time with PRO-DAIRY, starting during her senior year at Cornell, and is now on staff full-time. She will provide administrative support for the...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Researchers at the World Food Prize

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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Planet
Grow NY audience watches a panel of youth on stage

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Manfred Lim, a student from Jericho High School in Nassau County, New York, clinched first place and a $3,000 cash prize at the fourth annual Grow-NY Youth Competition, held Nov. 6 in Ithaca, New York. The 2024 Grow-NY Youth Competition, part of...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Beth McGinty, chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Colleen Barry, founding dean of the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, celebrate the Cornell Health Policy Center's launch during an event Nov. 15 at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. Photo by Sudeepa Singh.

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Weill Cornell Medicine and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy have established the Cornell Health Policy Center to serve as the locus for health policy impact, research and training across Cornell.

  • Department of Communication
  • Policy Analysis and Management
  • Communication
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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Gracekelly Fulton '24, co-lead of the Sustainable Landscapes team, prepares to plant a wild plum tree outside Onondaga Nation School. Photo by Sreang Hok.

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The garden - a collaboration between Onondaga Nation and Cornell Botanic Gardens - will enable Onondaga Nation School to incorporate more lessons from and about their own culture.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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Briefings, Conference Presentations, Panels & Workshops Associate Professor Brooke Duffy delivered two panel talks at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference. In “From CareerTok to #Quietquitting: Social Media Communication...
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Every summer a group of undergrad students arrive at the Cornell Biological Field Station to start their 10-week internship. This summer, James Hoehner was selected by the Cornell Cooperative Extension for the Oneida Lake Fisheries and Aquatic...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York Sea Grant Institute
Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute, associate professor of astronomy and author of “Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos,” said the thousands of exoplanets detected to date suggest there are “billions and billions” of possibilities for life beyond Earth. Photo by Sreang Hok.

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In person and online Nov. 9, thousands attended an interdisciplinary program of research presentations and music celebrated Carl Sagan’s legacy on what would have been his 90th birthday.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Department of Communication
  • Biology
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence wouldn’t be possible without the statistical models that underpin their analytic capabilities. A Cornell statistician and his colleague have developed a revolutionary new method to analyze complex...
  • Statistics and Data Science

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A Cornell-led team will use a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a “microbe-mineral atlas,” a catalog of microorganisms and how they interact with minerals, key for mining critical metals used for generating sustainable...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences