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An aisle in the grocery store

News

There are lessons in distribution failures like these – and Daniel Hooker ’93, senior lecturer in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, is teaching a new course this fall to address some of the crises related to the...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
men and women farmers working in a field with houses in the background

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While many studies have lauded China’s new environmental goals, much of this research has focused on the technical ways to make urban infrastructure sustainable and reduce emissions. However, new research suggests a relationship between urbanism...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Behavior
Hemp plant in field

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The Aug. 20 event hosted by the Cornell Hemp Research Team on Zoom, drew 359 attendees from the U.S., Canada, Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico and the U.K. to learn about the latest research tips for the hemp...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Horticulture Section
Netting on berry bushes outside

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The farm is experiencing one of its best seasons to date, thanks to better management of fall infestations of spotted wing drosophila (SWD), part of a research collaboration with Greg Loeb, professor of entomology at Cornell AgriTech, part of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Tess Pendergrast

Field Note

Get to know Tess Academic focus: I am a sociologist who studies social inequality. Specifically, I research the disproportionate environmental and health-related burdens low-income and nonwhite groups in the United States face. I’ve also been...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Ed Mabaya

Field Note

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
a glass of white milk

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Cornell’s Milk Quality Improvement Program has awarded Stewart’s Dairy in Saratoga Springs top honors in New York state’s annual fluid milk competition, conducted on behalf of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. The Cornell...
  • Food Safety Laboratory and Milk Quality Improvement Program
  • Food Science
  • Food
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

News

  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Test tubes on a lab bench

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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
Two yellow and green moths pinned to a box

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Spotlight

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
a women and two men standing outside talking

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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