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New global development unit calls for ‘education with impact’

The Department of Global Development will draw from faculty across the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to create a unified development studies program focused on engagement with the world’s grand challenges at home and abroad...

  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Bailee Hopkins-Hensley is connecting people to plants
Bailee Hopkins-Hensley ’18, MPS ’19, is passionate about exploring the connections that humans have to plants – especially the connections that indigenous communities have to the species that sustain them. She earned a bachelor’s degree in plant...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

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Dyson faculty member receives Weiss teaching award

The Stephen H. Weiss Awards were announced Oct. 18 by President Martha E. Pollack in a report to the Cornell University Board of Trustees. The eight awardees were unanimously recommended by a selection committee composed of six faculty members...

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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Eastern Broccoli Project on track to meet $100M goal
“I think we’re going to hit it,” said Thomas Björkman, Cornell professor of horticulture and the project’s principal investigator. Between 2012 and 2017, the number of New York state broccoli farms increased from 290 to 535, and the number of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Chickpea snack startup aims to disrupt junk food industry
Antithesis was recently awarded a $225,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award from the National Science Foundation to explore additional ways to make its nutrient-dense chickpea dough part of the processed foods industry. The...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science

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New Feed the Future Innovation Lab to leverage top U.S. researchers

The establishment of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement (ILCI) will create an integrated research and delivery program with multidisciplinary expertise at the cutting-edge of agricultural development, from plant breeding and...

  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell’s Humphrey Program marks 40 years of public service
Pratim Roy envisioned a learning center for those in his native region. In 2013, a yearlong stay at Cornell as part of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program helped him hone key leadership and managerial skills. He returned home to India and...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
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NYC-based landscape architecture course a first
But changes in transportation and labor costs eventually led to the terminal’s closure. Over the past 65 years, the abandoned site has changed hands multiple times. The facility is one of many post-industrial sites in areas that are now prime...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Environment
  • Landscape
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Insectapalooza 2019 will be bigger and buggier – and free
That one day is Oct. 19, when the Department of Entomology will host Insectapalooza – an annual extravaganza that aims to take the “creepy” out of “creepy-crawly.” From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., visitors can interact with more than 150 species of live...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Organisms
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Ag-to-energy farmland use is focus of new $2.4M grant
Six Cornell faculty members – an energy engineer, an applied dynamic structural econometrician, an agricultural and climate change economist, a statistical hydroclimatologist, a hydrologist and an agricultural scientist – will create models...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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Bryan Duff receives Racker Community Partner Award
On Oct. 10, Duff received the Racker Community Partner Award for Tompkins County, given to someone in the community who works to improve the lives of people with disabilities. “Bryan Duff has been a wonderful partner from Cornell University,”...
  • Faculty
  • Development Sociology
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New Cayuga language class focuses on nature, culture

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program

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Grow-NY Summit to feature food, ag innovations

The two-day event includes live pitches from food and agriculture startups competing for $3 million in prizes, a symposium, an exhibition of regional food and ag ecosystem leaders and an awards gala. A partnership between Empire State...

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
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Cornell student finds invasive water flea in Oneida Lake
Known to wreak havoc on the aquatic food chain, the flea was discovered by Josh Appel ’22 during routine work in Natural Resources 2100, a field biology class. Groups of students from the class, taught by senior lecturer Paul Rodewald and...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Organisms
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Disease trends in sea creatures herald oceanic changes
The findings, published Oct. 9 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, show that long-term changes in diseases coincide with recent decades of widespread environmental change. Understanding oceanic trends is important for evaluating today’s...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Organisms
  • Disease

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$1M Walmart Foundation grant to fund Tata-Cornell ag study

The grant will fund a two-year study, “FPO-led Small Farm Market Access Models for the Future of Food Systems in India,” led by Prabhu Pingali, founder and director of TCI, and professor of applied economics and management at the Dyson School of...

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
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Can rice be grown in New York's climate?
“I said, ‘That’s the one I’m looking for, the wetland is good for the rice,’” Badjie said, flashing an easy smile. “Dawn said, ‘No, you can’t grow rice here. Are you crazy?’” Few farmers attempt to grow a warmth-loving crop like rice in the...
  • International Programs
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
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Hometown Alumni Award winners connect at Homecoming
The event brought the alumni and their families together for a lunch, panel discussion and Q&A with university leaders, faculty, trustees and current students. The award was launched in 2018 by Cornell’s Division of University Relations, in...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Department of Communication
  • Agriculture
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Students have ‘eye-opening’ experiences at Climate Week NYC
In New York City, the students – participating in Cornell’s Global Climate Change Science and Policy class – met with Tonga’s Mahe Tupouniua, secretary of foreign affairs; T. Suka Mangisi, deputy chief of mission; Rose Kautoke, assistant crown...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Climate Change
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Cornell tackles ‘migrations’ global challenge
The new initiative – Migrations: Researching, Teaching and Building for a World on the Move – was officially launched Oct. 1 with a panel discussion and interactive tour of a special exhibit on migration, how the light gets in, at the Herbert F...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section