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BGRI Technical Workshop October 7-9

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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
raspberries, a spoonful of peanut butter, sliced bananas and white smoothie bites on a wooden surface

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Cornell’s bite-size frozen fruit smoothie pieces with crunchy yogurt coatings earned the top prize this summer at the virtual 2020 Institute of Food Technologists’ (IFT) Student Association & Mars Product Development national competition....
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy
A man walking outside down a grassy lane between cassava fields

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  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Since requesting proposals in April, the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability has awarded approximately $250,000 in rapid-response grants for COVID-19-related Cornell research. With the final 10 awards announced, the center has now funded...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
a woman behind a table making a container garden

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Thanks to a grant from the NYS Department of Ag and Markets, Ag Educator Ariel Kirk and her team were able to develop a do-it-yourself container garden kit with all the necessary components and supplementary support materials, and then...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
A farm with a big, green cover on the ground

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The 65-page report, New York Agriculture and Climate Change: Key Opportunities for Mitigation, Resilience, and Adaptation, provides a scientific assessment of opportunities and barriers supporting climate adaptation and mitigation practices on...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
a mother holding her baby's feet

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Findings will inform the World Health Organization’s (WHO) international guidelines on breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Saurabh Mehta and Julia Finkelstein, both associate professors in Cornell’s Division of Nutritional Sciences...
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Global Development

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Program will offer webinar series, continue other activities in response to pandemic In response to the COVID-19 health crisis, LEAD New York has decided to pause the start of seminars for the 2020–2021 year. Executive director Larry Van De Valk...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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As director and head curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, Corrie Moreau has numerous tasks on her to-do list, including one that could last her entire career: digitizing the collection’s 7 million specimens. Digitization is a...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
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U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi, a New York Democrat, met Aug. 10 with farmers and agricultural thought leaders – including Kathryn Boor ’80, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – for a farm tour and roundtable...
  • Agriculture
  • Development
  • Crops
Three jars containing spreads

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An ambitious health food startup is making an innovative entry into the nutritious snack market, thanks in part to a multi-year collaboration with the Cornell Food Venture Center (CFVC) and the New York State Center of Excellence for Food and...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
A house being built in the winter

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“Are we taxing America so that people with second homes on the water don’t have to pay as much?” asked Brian Rahm, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Rahm is a co...
  • Development
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
Josh using testing instrument in cattle field

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The five-county region of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, and Steuben Counties relies on an estimated $601 million in agricultural product sales to fuel the local economy. Eighty percent of those dollars come from the dairy, livestock...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
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Johannes Lehmann, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences, is leading a revolution. Over the past two decades, he has been instrumental in overturning a long-held scientific belief regarding the fundamental nature of soil...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Green is majoring in Animal Science, and Miller is majoring in International Agriculture and Rural Development. The Cargill Global Scholars Program is a distinctive international scholarship initiative that began in 2013, and it offers a...
  • Animal Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
Wheat growing in a field

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As COVID-19 disrupts food systems around the world, a pivot to more agile and inclusive data collection and analysis is critical to avert widespread hunger, according to Cornell Global Development experts in a comment piece published Aug. 5 in...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
Dean Kathryn J. Boor

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Before she moves on to new roles – as dean of the Cornell Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education – Boor joined Cornell Cooperative Extension’s “Extension Out Loud” podcast to reflect on her journey through agriculture, as both...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
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Art DeGaetano, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, is one of nine scientists who have co-authored a report to help the nation’s farmers, producers and commercial agricultural managers reduce risk in the face of climate change. “We...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Agriculture
A yellow and black bird sitting on a tree branch

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In one corner: the Bullock’s oriole, found in the western half of North America. In the other corner: the Baltimore oriole, from the eastern half. Where their ranges meet in the Great Plains, the two mix freely and produce apparently healthy...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Genetics
  • Animals
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Houlton’s five-year appointment, effective Oct. 1, has been approved by the Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and is pending ratification by the State University of New York Board of Trustees. He also has been...
  • Global Development Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change