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A green jay perched on a branch.

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The 24th annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), Feb. 12-15, is a great opportunity for budding birdwatchers and bird-count veterans to use their skills. People from around the world count the birds they see for at least 15 minutes on one or...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment
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Jenny Goldstein , assistant professor of global development, has been named to a prestigious faculty fellowship to develop an ambitious research project focused on environmental rehabilitation in Indonesia. Goldstein will confront the issue of...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
multicolored beans

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These microorganisms collectively make up an ecosystem known as the microbiome, and their well-being is intimately intertwined with our own. In the gut, microbes help regulate digestive health by processing essential vitamins and minerals and by...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Global Development
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An anonymous gift of $2.65 million to support Cornell and partner research in Tanzania will improve distribution of new and more resistant varieties of cassava while empowering women and marginalized groups in the East African nation . Cassava...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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This wind atlas is the first publicly available, uniform and geospatially explicit (datasets tied to locations) description of extreme wind speeds, according to the research, “ A Global Assessment of Extreme Wind Speeds For Wind Energy...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Energy
Flooding around homes in the Philippines

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Lindy Williams, professor of global development and a member of the Migrations Lab, profiled two cities in the province of Luzon as they face the risks and consequences of frequent flooding. Despite these problems, “climate-driven migration is...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Behavior
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Lead NY is for committed leaders in the agriculture and food industries who wish to step up and make a difference in their community. Kim Trombly (Class 18), field advisor for New York Farm Bureau, explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Lead NY Executive Director Larry Van De Valk sat down with Ron Ramstad (Class 5) for a conversation about leadership, working in New York state and beyond, and his advise on building a company from the ground up.
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
Four people standing in a rice paddy

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The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has been named as a 2020 climate policy "breakthrough" for government initiatives in Vietnam to increase agricultural production there while reducing methane emissions from rice paddies. SRI was...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
Richard Stup presenting virtually

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“Ag labor is going to remain scarce due to … underlying demographics and labor market factors, even if we get immigration reform,” said Richard Stup, agricultural workforce specialist in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and at...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
An ant

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Gut bacteria in a species of herbivorous ant play a major role in processing nutrients that allow the ants to build tough exoskeletons, an international team of researchers has found.
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
Wine bottle and two wine glasses at sunset.

Field Note

What is your role in the wine industry? A lot of people know me as the former winemaker for Martha Clara Vineyards, which sold in 2018, but I’ve been keeping really busy ever since. My most exciting role right now is as a winemaker and co-owner...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Craft Beverage Institute
  • Food Science

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Keshavarz, who lived in Athens, Georgia, was well-known for his work on how nutrition affects egg size and eggshell quality in poultry, which provided important guidance for New York and Northeast egg producers. His program also provided a model...

  • Animal Science
Village in a valley in Nepal with mountains in the background

Field Note

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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“(This year) is going to be so much better than 2020,” said Steven Kyle, associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. “You will think you’re in a different universe.” Kyle presented his annual...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
Andy Clark leaning on a white railing

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The research, published Jan. 7 in The American Journal of Human Genetics, makes the process of finding these interactions much less difficult and demonstrates their importance in determining body mass index and diabetes risk. “Our study...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
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Ian Owens, a distinguished evolutionary biologist and currently the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s deputy director, has been named the next executive director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Owens will take the helm of the...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
red cherry tomatoes with gold stripes

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A cross between heirloom tomato varieties, Cherry Ember was developed by Phillip Griffiths , associate professor of horticulture in the School of Integrative Plant Science, part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The new tomato is...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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The new Biden administration backs policy reform aimed at achieving that end, which was part of bipartisan legislation proposed more than a decade ago. But progress has been stalled by broader concerns about visas – particularly the temporary H...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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Taught by Bruce Monger, senior lecturer in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, a shared unit between the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), the era of COVID-19 and remote teaching...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Planet