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A new book co-edited by a Cornell faculty and student highlights the distortion of gender research in agricultural development and calls for transformative changes to the power dynamics and political systems that harm women and worsen hunger in...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plants
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Aldwinckle, a professor emeritus of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and professor...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

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A global analysis by Cornell researchers found that recycling all the human and livestock feces and urine on the planet would contribute substantially to meeting the nutrient supply for all crops worldwide, thereby dramatically reducing the...

  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Food Science
  • Nutritional Sciences
New York State Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball and New York State 4-H Youth Development Program Leader Alexa Maille at The Great New York State Fair.
David Kay in his office on campus at Cornell University

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In a rapidly evolving world, strengthening connections between the work done in Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) program areas across the state and the related research conducted at Cornell University has never been more crucial. This episode...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Department of Global Development
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The Polson Institute for Global Development announced its fall 2024 grants to support research at the intersection of systemic inequality and social-environmental justice. The collaborative grants, small grants, and working groups aim to enhance...
Grow-NY Youth Competition networking
Method compresses terabytes into gigabytes.

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A new method developed at Cornell provides tools and methodologies to compress hundreds of terabytes of genomic data to gigabytes, once again enabling researchers to store datasets in local computers.

  • Computational Biology
  • Genomics
  • Genetics
Thomas J. Campanella, MLA ’91, professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, spearheaded the effort to commemorate Pearl S. Buck’s first residency in Ithaca with a New York State Historic Marker, funded by the Pomeroy Foundation. He offered a preview of the marker prior to its Dec. 8 installation near Forest Home Chapel. Photo by Ryan Young.

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Years before writing “The Good Earth” and winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, the aspiring novelist received encouragement and a master’s degree at Cornell.

  • Landscape Architecture
  • Applied Economics
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Kendrick Nakamura ‘24 kept ants as a hobby for years while maintaining a career in IT, before realizing that the insects were his real passion. He came to Cornell to major in Entomology and said that one of his favorite courses was Insect...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Dilmun Hill Student Farm
  • Entomology

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Meet Lauren Chuhta ’26, a double major in Global Development and Communication at Cornell CALS. Before coming to Cornell, Lauren explored local and global food security challenges through experiences with FFA and the World Food Prize Foundation...
  • Department of Communication
  • Department of Global Development
  • Communication
CCE Orleans County 4-H alums win $500K in Grow-NY competition

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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Chronic fatigue syndrome patient.

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The study found that key CD8+ T cells showed signs of constant stimulation that lead to an exhausted state, a condition that is well-studied in cancer.

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Genomics
Man takes selfie in rural Gambia

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How would bushwhacking the Rockies, wandering across Gambia, and working a Tesla assembly line shift your perception of global development? Meet Erik Endacott, this year’s Peace Corps Coverdell Fellow in the Global Development Master of...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Food
  • Global Development
Andy Turner looks out over New York City

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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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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...
An enzyme

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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
Brown soil and green plants in a field

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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
Judson Reid

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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension