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Group of fellows and faculty

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At Cornell, the Turner Fellows are taking graduate courses and engaging in research, and on August 31, they were celebrated by the Cornell community at a welcome reception attended by Cornell faculty mentors, and program partners across the...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
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Eight graduate students from 1890 land grant institutions across the United States have been selected as part of the inaugural cohort of Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellows at Cornell University. Representing a wide range of research specialties...
  • Animal Science
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Man holds a fresh salmon.

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Breeding Insight, a new program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through Cornell University, will share latest tools with breeders in the U.S.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Cassava plant

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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Joseph Onyeka, Chiedozie Egesi, Robert Kawuki and Jean-Luc Jannink inspect new cassava varieties in Uganda field

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Cassava hasn't received the scientific attention of cash crops such as wheat, but the seventh annual meeting of NextGen Cassava hopes to draw attention to the sub-Saharan Africa dietary staple.