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Academic focus: Organizational economics, development economics, entrepreneurship Previous positions: Postdoctoral Research Associate, IDE@MIT, MIT Sloan, 2018-2019. Academic background: Ph.D. in Economics, Department of Economics, University of...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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Academic focus: Reproductive Biology and Integrative Endocrinology Previous positions: Postdoc and Instructor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, 2012-2018. Academic background: Ph.D., Department of Animal...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Physiology
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Academic focus: Ecological modeling, vegetation-environment Interactions, plant functional ecology, plant hydraulics, ecological remote sensing, global change biology Previous positions: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Organismic...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
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“Moonbeam is a very good eating experience from start to finish … from first bite to aftertaste,” said Phillip Griffiths, associate professor of horticulture at Cornell AgriTech, who started developing Moonbeam in 2006 and made it a selection in...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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For military veterans interested in starting a career in agriculture, these problems can be exacerbated by limited funding for education and training, and fewer community and social connections, which are common challenges for veterans re...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Problem solved: Deep in an obscure online forum, years earlier, a woman from a far-away part of the world had posted the complicated sequence of button-pressing necessary to complete the task. “This is so routine for us that we don’t realize...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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On Oct. 29, members of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) came together to celebrate the 16th year of the Research & Extension Awards and the 10th year of the Core Value Staff Awards. The awards recognize the notable and wide...
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Fils-Aimé is the inaugural Leader in Residence at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His talk, sponsored by the Dyson Leadership Program, focused on a list of guiding principles for leaders that he developed while...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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The research, “ Signaling Impacts of GMO Labeling on Fruit and Vegetable Demand,” published online Oct. 30 in the journal PLOS One. The study comes as food marketers prepare for a new federal law requiring genetically modified organism...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Genetics
  • Food
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This leaves women on Instagram caught in an “authenticity bind” – the nature of social media compels them to share details from their personal lives, but these details make them vulnerable to abuse or charges that they’ve “curated” or faked...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Two Cornell researchers are tackling the age-old problem using 21st century tools: inexpensive, touch-sensitive soft robots that can help growers predict yield and detect fungal threats.' Justine Vanden Heuvel, associate professor of...
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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But research sometimes points in different directions. So it can be hard for policymakers to decide where to dedicate limited funds, and how best to help farmers adopt the right crops. Ceres2030, a global effort led by International Programs in...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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Owners John and Dawn Alfano have fed their 19 dairy goats a breakfast of sweet feed mixed with black sunflower seeds before releasing them to a hillside paddock, where they sunned themselves in dappled grass, snacked on crispy golden maple...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture

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In fact, so-called “zombie homes” – often left vacant and unmaintained during prolonged foreclosure proceedings – are a serious problem that drew experts from academia, government and nonprofit organizations to Cornell Oct. 23-24 for a symposium...

  • Community and Regional Development Institute
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For those from the United States, the mental image may be an older white man standing next to a gleaming new tractor beside a 1,000 acre field rippling with golden wheat. But in many other parts of the world, the reality of farming is much...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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What drew you to the program at Cornell AgriTech? Apples! I’ve been working with tree fruit since I was an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, and I was previously a regional apple specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension. Not only...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

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“My work has sought to identify specific strategies that both convey fundamental causes of health inequities but also offer promising solutions to address them via policy change,” says Jeff Niederdeppe, associate professor of communication in...

  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Communication
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“I remember having a conversation with a French artist in Berlin who was working on a sound installation to investigate the sounds of soil,” said Lehmann, professor of soil and crop sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Her mother, Lydia Rivera-Warr, was taken aback by her child’s observation. “But she was right,” says Rivera-Warr. “Back then, not only was Emerson Street strewn with litter, it was a place where drugs were sold openly and prostitutes hung around...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Nature
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With a grant of $2,355,000 over five years, Marcos Simoes-Costa, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics, will investigate how the spatial complexity of an organism is generated in early development. “For the human body to be...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Biology