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Art professor Kay WalkingStick elected to AAAS

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program

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New faculty carrying on CALS’ impact mission

Abigail Snyder, from the Department of Food Science, studies how different conditions in food processing environments can contribute to the rise of microbial communities. Her main focus is developing solutions to challenges in food safety...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Food Science
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Social sciences center awards COVID-19 grants
As the coronavirus pandemic escalated in the United States, reports of bias and hostility against immigrants and Asian Americans also grew. New research supported by a rapid response grant from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) will...
  • Global Development Section
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development
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With help from family, friends, ROTC seniors become officers
Navy Ensign Emily Ortwein ’20 had “one of the most special and exciting experiences of her life” May 22, the culmination of four years of rigorous military training. Traditionally, seniors in Cornell’s Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)...
  • Health + Nutrition
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Food science professor’s ‘instant ice cream’ gains patent
In three seconds, you could turn a soda into a slushy or a melted malt back into ice cream. Thanks to two food scientists, their newly patented machine uses pressurized carbon dioxide to quickly cool any liquid and give it frozen features.
  • Food Science
  • Food

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Two bacteria allow spittlebugs to thrive on low-nutrient meals

A new study examines the symbiotic relationship between two types of bacteria and spittlebugs that helps the insect live on very low-nutrient food. The bacteria use a metabolic “trick” also employed by cancer cells to create the right conditions...

  • Department of Entomology
  • Animals
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Field Note

Tanmay Bansal ’21: Studying behavioral science interventions
Co-taught by Neil Lewis, Jr., assistant professor of communication, and René Kizilcec, assistant professor of information science, COMM/INFO 4800 is a capstone seminar that combines applied quantitative research methods and social behavioral...
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication
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Bangladeshi farmers reap higher yields, profits from Bt eggplant

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Department of Entomology
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Going remote: Food science students find new ways to support industry partners
With the help of Bruno Xavier, senior extension associate at the Cornell Food Venture Center, students in Food Science 4000 were able to translate virtual education challenges into an opportunity to think outside of the box. Thanks to student ingenuity, members of the food industry were able to find solutions for a variety of production challenges.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Saving the planet, one shade-grown cup at a time
Collaborative research shows that growing coffee under trees — a practice called shade-grown coffee — can support farmers, protect biodiversity and preserve the environment.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section

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NSF-funded antimicrobial technology targets COVID-19

Its potential to prevent COVID-19 from contaminating private and public spaces has attracted the interest of the National Science Foundation, which on May 21 awarded the company $256,000 from its COVID-19 Rapid Response Research (RAPID) program...

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Bacteria
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Field Note

Adam Howell: Leading institutional change through Cornell’s Employee Assembly
Adam Howell, communications specialist for the Cornell Local Roads Program, has served as the chair of Cornell University’s Employee Assembly (EA) since 2017. Here, Howell reflects on his experience in the EA, both as a leader and as a CALS...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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New species of downy mildew named in honor of SIPS researcher
There are species named after scientists like Charles Darwin ( Geochelone nigra darwini) and figures in popular culture ( Notiospathius johnlennoni). Dick Korf, who worked as a fungal taxonomist in Cornell's Plant Pathology Department from 1951...
  • Long Island Research & Extension Center
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Wheat initiative celebrates women leaders in fight to end hunger

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Algal genome provides insights into first land plants
The report, “ The Penium margaritaceum Genome: Hallmarks of the Origins of Land Plants,” was published May 21 in the journal Cell. Penium margaritaceum belongs to a group of freshwater algae called charophytes, and specifically to a subgroup...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Students, faculty make art in the time of coronavirus
Many students adapted and even stepped up their game, finding creative ways to continue working Art student Patrick Brennan, M.F.A. ’20, offered a thoughtful perspective on being an artist restricted by social distancing. He posted a video...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Communication
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Alum’s ‘crazy idea’ helped launch craft beer revolution
The English and education degrees Steve Hindy ’71, MAT ’73, earned at Cornell ended up serving him well, if not quite how he’d planned. “I think I failed as an English teacher,” Hindy said, “but it turned out I was a pretty good beer teacher.”...
  • Food Science
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
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Merrill Scholars near and far honor their teachers, mentors
As a first-generation college student whose family – refugees from Indonesia – arrived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when he was only a year old, Malikul Muhamad ’20 credits his teachers and professors with helping him chart a successful course...
  • Global Development
  • Plants
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Senior seeks to honor mentor’s memory with cancer research
In a seminar room in the Physical Sciences Building last fall, Brian Lee ’20 delivered a short lecture on cancer research at CURBx – the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board’s TED-style talks. He packed a thesis-full of detail into a few minutes...
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
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Cornell farm tractor gets clean, green biodiesel makeover
Instead of emitting the notoriously noxious black diesel smoke, the tractor now emits a much lighter colored exhaust with a smell more reminiscent of French fries than farm implements. That’s thanks to its soy-based biodiesel fuel, as the...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Agriculture
  • Environment