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Going underground: Grant roots out rapid apple decline culprit
This effort is thanks to a recent $299,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The three-year project, “Root Traits and Rapid Decline of Apple Trees in High-Density Orchards,” is one of the...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Bosco receives Botany in Action Fellowship

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Leading Through Extension: Engaging Youth In Trying Times
In this episode of “ Extension Out Loud,” a podcast by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE),  Andy Turner, director of  New York State 4-H Youth Development, shares how the program’s holistic, positive youth development approach is designed to...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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LeadNY opens applications for leaders in food, agricultural sectors
LeadNY, a pioneering training program for mid-career professionals, provides intensive one- or two-year programs to improve leadership skills, self-awareness, issues analysis, critical thinking and civic engagement. Based at Cornell University’s...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Gene discovery may help peaches tolerate climate stress
The study, co-led by Boyce Thompson Institute faculty member Zhangjun Fei, examined the genomes of peach’s wild relatives and landraces – varieties that have adapted over a long time to specific local conditions – from seven regions in China...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Food supply chain app wins digital ag hackathon
The event, held virtually March 5-7, brought together 176 students from 32 teams representing five of the world’s top agriculture schools for a 36-hour hackathon. A mix of undergraduate and graduate students in fields ranging from agriculture...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
No-till tarping practices are compared side-by-side to no-till and conventional tillage in permanent beds on the Cornell Thompson Research Farm in Freeville, NY.

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Join Farmer to Farmer “Tarp Talk” Webinars in March
Tarps are clearly a multifunctional tool for small farmers and are being sized, sourced, and applied to fit the farm.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
  • Organic

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Three life scientists awarded 2021 Schwartz funds

Three faculty members – investigating topics ranging from microbes secreted by beetles that preserve carcasses, to improving type-2 diabetes treatments in adolescent girls in low-income homes, to developing new biodegradable metallic surgical implants – are winners of 2021 Schwartz Research Funds for Women and other Underrepresented Faculty in the Life Sciences.

  • Microbiology
  • Microbiology
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Atkinsons’ $30M gift to name multidisciplinary building
A $30 million commitment from David R. Atkinson ’60 and Patricia Atkinson will name a new multidisciplinary building on campus, intended to foster innovative and collaborative research in priority areas of sustainability, public health, cancer biology, immunology and computational biology.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
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SIPS faculty team up for sweet potato improvement
Gaurav Moghe , assistant professor of plant biology, is an expert in plant biochemistry (phytochemistry) — researching the evolution and applications of plant metabolism. Horticulture Professor Steve Reiners is an authority on vegetable...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Biology Section
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NextGen Cassava researcher awarded Cornell's Africa Fund Fellowship

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Global collaborations spark wheat breeding discoveries

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Building networks not enough to expand rural broadband
High operations and maintenance costs and low population density in some rural areas result in prohibitively high service fees – even for a subscriber-owned cooperative structured to prioritize member needs over profits, the analysis found...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Development
  • Applied Economics
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SIPS Community Commits to Diversity and Inclusion
In response to the growing awareness of the need to support marginalized groups, faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates, and graduate students in Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS) began meeting last fall to map out...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Buckley elected to American Academy of Microbiology
Congratulations to SIPS Professor Dan Buckley, elected in February as one of 65 new Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology. Fellows represent an honorific leadership group with the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) elected annually...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Microbiology
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Students use active learning to solve COVID-19 problems
Instructors Jillian Goldfarb, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and Alex Maag, postdoctoral associate with Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative, assigned...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
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Food security research grants propel graduate student work in Africa
Two graduate students working with Professor Rachel Bezner Kerr have received funding for research focused on increasing food security from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability . Doctoral students Emily Baker and Emily Hillenbrand...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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$750K awarded for intercampus research

The Office of Academic Integration has awarded $750,000 in seed grants to 10 studies ranging from refugee health and legal rights, to a vaccine treating fentanyl addiction and overdose, to pancreatic cancer and antibiotic tolerance.

  • Microbiology
  • Department of Communication
  • Microbiology
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Power and place in ecological systems

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Environment

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Grapes 101: Oomycete

Downy Mildew is caused by an Oomycete. What’s an Oomycete? Why does it matter? So What’s an Oomycete, and Why Aren’t They Considered To Be Fungi? One of the groups of organisms that cause many serious plant diseases are known as the Oomycota or...

  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Food