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National tick surveillance survey identifies gaps to be filled
Insufficient infrastructure, limited guidance on best practices and lack of institutional capacity also are impediments to improved tick monitoring, the researchers found. Their report, “A Survey of Tick Surveillance and Control Practices in the...
  • Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
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Mann award winner illuminates infectious diseases
Over that same time, Legionella – the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease – has developed defenses against humans’ white blood cells, known as the “defenders of the lungs.” “Immune cells in human lungs happen to act a lot like amoeba...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
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Atkinson, EDF to fund Cornell-led sustainability projects
Through an on-going partnership between the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), four Cornell faculty members have received new grants for three regional sustainability projects with global...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Agriculture
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Pedersen Farms: Growing vegetables for the Northeast market with Cornell AgriTech
What has it been like to work with Cornell AgriTech over the years? We’ve had a close relationship with Cornell AgriTech over the years working with faculty there ever since we started farming in 1983. Both of us had worked on the Geneva campus...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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In time of COVID-19, Global Development students work globally, remotely

  • CALS Global Fellows Program
  • Global Development Section
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Podcast features Cornell Local Roads program
Part 1 with David Orr David Orr, director of the Cornell Local Roads program joins Extension Out Loud. Do you know who maintains the road you live on or the road you drive to work on? Maybe you’ve never thought about it less there’s a pothole or...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Ben Fields ’20: Big heart, bigger hopes to change the world

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Hunger fighters 'Take It to the Farmer' in June 25 virtual event from BGRI

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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New Engaged Research Grants awarded to 14 partnerships
Fourteen teams of faculty and community partners have received Engaged Research Grants from the Office of Engagement Initiatives to increase undergraduate involvement in research that strengthens the well-being of communities. “By combining two...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animal Science

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Antonie Blackler, pioneering biologist, dies at 88

He was known for groundbreaking fundamental work on the origin of sex cells in vertebrates. His experiments with South African clawed toads yielded important insights into the development and reproduction of amphibian embryos, with implications...

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Genetics

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NYC mayor appoints McComas to climate change panel

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed Cornell’s Katherine McComas, Ph.D. ’00, to the fourth New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), an independent group of 20 scientists who will synthesize climate study data and advise city...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Department of Communication
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Dream Work—Unpaid Labor in the Gig Economy
Stories abound of so-called social media influencers who earn thousands of dollars for a single post. The New York Times reported in July 2019 that the YouTube star du jour, Emma Chamberlain, made as much as $2 million a year from her videos...
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication

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Margaret Smith, new director and associate dean of Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station

Margaret Smith has been appointed as associate dean and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES), effective August 1, 2020. Margaret came to Cornell in 1987 as a faculty member in Plant Breeding and...

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
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Ashley Leach: Advancing arthropod management in Indiana
In what ways did your experience as a graduate student at Cornell AgriTech shape your current career path? Cornell AgriTech is an excellent place to pursue your graduate degree. I was fortunate to have a diverse community supporting my research...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Crops
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Adrienne Gorny: Applying her experience at Cornell AgriTech to the North Carolina sweet potato industry
What kinds of research did you perform while at Cornell AgriTech, and what do you research now? My research at AgriTech focused on the Northern root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne hapla, and the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans in Irish...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Alliance for Science Live kicks off June 15

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
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Gillibrand at virtual town hall: ‘Every farm in NY is hurting’
Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, described how Congress is addressing these issues, and adjusting policies, during a virtual town hall June 8, hosted by Cornell. “There is no question during these difficult times in New York it is...
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Dairy
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Reunion panel discusses value of ‘One Health’ approach
In short, it’s the idea that we’re all in this together. “One Health is a way of reminding all of us of our place within the whole,” said Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff in a video introduction to a panel discussion on the One Health...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Biology
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Grant to support research into grape downy mildew
While pesticides are commonly used to help control it, the pathogen is beginning to develop resistance to a group of fungicides commonly used in East Coast vineyards. A new project led by Kaitlin (Katie) Gold, assistant professor of plant...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science

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Statement from Dean Boor about #ShutDownSTEM on June 10, 2020

As we continue to grapple with our sadness and outrage over the recent killings of members of Black communities in America and other acts of racially motivated violence, our academic community is responding by pausing our activities for a day of...