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CCE summer interns extend and explore
“It’s probably the most impactful summer I’ve had as a Cornell student,” said Adjoa Fosuhema-Kordie ’20. A senior human development major in the College of Human Ecology (CHE), Fosuhema-Kordie’s internship took her to New York City where she...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Zombies breathe life into sustainable housing summit
To do that, Cornell’s Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) hosts “From Zombies to Vacants to Sustainable Housing: Building Resilient Communities,” a symposium Oct. 23-24 at Warren Hall on the Cornell campus. The symposium will...
  • Community and Regional Development Institute

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Three alumni named 2019 MacArthur fellows

Zachary Lippman ’00 (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) is a plant biologist investigating the genetic networks underpinning plant development and growth and developing tools to help breed hardier and higher yielding crops. Lisa Daugaard...

  • Plants
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Scientists retrace monarch’s toxin-immunity evolution
By editing these genes into laboratory fruit flies using CRISPR technology, scientists have reconstructed evolution and instantly conferred – in the flies – the same toxin resistance enjoyed by monarchs. “We experimentally went back in...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
  • Biology
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Six projects receive Innovative Teaching and Learning Awards
A faculty committee assembled by the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) granted funding for six projects for 2019. The awards program, in its second year, aims to support faculty – with grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 – in exploring new...
  • Microbiology
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Plants use a common ‘language’ for emergency alerts
But what if plants themselves could “talk” to each other? That’s a question that André Kessler, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and his research team addressed over a 12-year study that examined plant-to-plant communication in...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Environment
  • Plants

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Go ‘Wild at Cornell’ with artist, plant stylist Hilton Carter

The talk, Oct. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium, is free and open to the public. Carter believes bringing greenery into one’s living space has many positive benefits, creating a space that blurs the line between indoors and outdoors, and...

  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
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Two dozen Engaged Faculty Fellows announced
The 2019-20 cohort, the largest in the seven-year history of the program, joins more than 50 other faculty fellows dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields. “I’m delighted to welcome these...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Department of Communication
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
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Study illuminates link between anglerfish & bacteria
Scientists who study these fish are still mostly in the dark about the bacteria, which share a symbiotic relationship with the fish, but a new Cornell-led study reveals that the fish most likely acquired the luminous bacteria from the water. At...
  • Microbiology
  • Animals
  • Bacteria
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Visa concerns deter foreign-born Ph.D.s from working in startups
Foreign-born Ph.D. graduates with science and engineering degrees from American universities apply to and receive offers for technology startup jobs at the same rate as U.S. citizens, but are only half as likely to actually work at fledgling...
  • Faculty
  • Industry
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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‘Migrations’ is theme of Cornell’s first Global Grand Challenge
“The unprecedented pace, scale and complexity of movement on our planet – of humans, plants, animals, cultural messages and artifacts, resources, pathogens and more – present a diverse suite of challenges and opportunities that play out across...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section

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Capitol Hill experience inspires CALS student to pursue legislative career

McBath traveled to Washington, D.C. with Jan Nyrop, director of Cornell AgriTech, Dianne Miller, senior director of federal relations, and other extension representatives from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). While there...

  • Alumna/Alumnus
  • Prospective Undergraduate Student
  • Cornell AgriTech
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Head of Ag and Markets hailed as Friend of Extension
Hailing Ball’s “tireless passion” and “ubiquitous presence” in support of agriculture and extension work around the state, CCE Director Chris Watkins and Arlene Wilson, president of the New York chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi, the national...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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NIH grants food scientists $2.6M to battle bacteria
“Bacteriophages are the naturally evolved predators that fight against bacteria, and they may be an important factor in defeating antibiotic-resistant bacteria,” said Sam Nugen ’99, Ph.D. ’08, associate professor of food and biosystems...
  • Food Science
  • Bacteria
  • Microbial biology
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Restoring Long Island's shellfish population
“Clamming and fishing, they’re in your blood,” says Warner, as Hampton Bays, a coastal village in Southampton, New York, fades into the distance. “It’s a lifestyle, not a job.” That lifestyle – and Long Island’s coastal ecosystem, economy and...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animals
  • Organisms
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Rural Humanities Showcase touts Cornell-community projects
The nine projects represented Cornell faculty engagement, teaching and research around “rural humanities” – using the tools of the humanities to address both the rural-urban divide and the realities of rural America, particularly in central and...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Development Sociology
  • Development
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AI helps shrink Amazon dams’ greenhouse gas emissions
With hundreds of hydropower dams currently proposed for the Amazon basin – an ecologically sensitive area covering more than a third of South America – predicting their greenhouse emissions in advance could be critical for the region, and the...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Energy
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Why has North America lost 3 billion birds?
According to research published Sept. 19 by the journal Science, the total breeding bird population in the continental U.S. and Canada has dropped by 29 percent since that year. “We were astounded by this result … the loss of billions of birds,”...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment

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Agronomist Thomas W. Scott dies at 89

Scott joined the Department of Agronomy (now the Section of Soil and Crop Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ School of Integrative Plant Science) in 1959 as an assistant professor of soil science with responsibilities in...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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Professor delivers sustainability report to UN secretary-general
This report supplements annual reviews done internally at the U.N. by giving an independent and broad-based assessment of the current trends in global development and to review how the world can chart a better future. Guterres will present the...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Development Sociology
  • Environment