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Raptor Program students debate Eagles vs. Falcons on NBC
Falcons, while not nearly as big or strong, are the world’s fastest animal. A peregrine falcon can fly upward of 240 miles per hour. It also has a notched, hooked beak it uses to break the back of its prey. So which would you take? That question...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
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CCE podcast helps navigate industrial hemp issues
But with hemp markets, products and output rapidly expanding, growers and producers are facing new challenges. Helping navigate these issues is the Cornell Hemp Team, an interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers and Cornell Cooperative...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Cornell to lead soil health conversation at Empire Farm Days
“The good news is, a growing network of innovative farmers, agricultural professionals and researchers are working daily to implement and promote practices that build soil health across the state,” said Joseph Amsili, Cornell Cooperative...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Soil
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Cornell CALS co-hosts event to foster rural workforce development
To better understand and address these complex issues, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Agency is conducting listening sessions across the country to brainstorm more effective ways to keep rural areas vibrant...
  • Development
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‘Corpse flower’ poised to make another big stink
“The flowering is brief – just a day or two – and difficult to predict,” said Paul Cooper, the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station greenhouse grower who cares for the Titan arums and more than 600 other species of plants in the...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Planet

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LEAD New York founder James Preston ’50 dies

Preston was born Oct. 14, 1926, in Friendship, New York, and grew up in farming communities across the state, developing a lifelong interest in agriculture and rural community development. He graduated from Ithaca High School in 1944 and...

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension

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Former head of Nintendo is Dyson Leader in Residence

Fils-Aimé, who graduated with a degree in applied economics, will participate in a number of events and share leadership lessons and principles he has developed over his career. In his role this academic year, he will visit campus once per...

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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New ‘Botanic Buzzline’ trail connects people, pollinators
The Botanic Buzzline provides pollinators – especially those that can travel only very short distances between stops for nectar – with a continuous patch of uninterrupted flowers. It connects the Tower Road area near the Cornell Dairy Bar to the...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Pollinators
  • Environment
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Scientists shocked to discover two new species of electric eel
“Eight hundred and sixty volts is an incredible output of electricity for an animal. Our electric plug points are 110 volts,” said Casey Dillman, curator of fishes, amphibians and reptiles at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates and a co...
  • Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
  • Animals
  • Organisms

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Brian Davis wins prestigious landscape architecture award

Brian Davis, assistant professor in the D epartment of Landscape Architecture, won a national American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) award for his work with the Dredge Research Collaborative on issues at the nexus of climate change...

  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
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Cornell students question candidates on climate change
Marc Alessi ’18, a master’s degree student in atmospheric sciences, challenged Bernie Sanders on his position that dismisses nuclear energy technology. “We’ve got a heck of a lot of nuclear waste, which … will stay around this planet for many...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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Interdisciplinary team gets $2M grant for bioenergy conversion
The team will be led by Peng Chen, the Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, who is collaborating with Tobias Hanrath, professor at the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Buz Barstow...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Energy
  • Biology
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Botanic Gardens lecture explores Hundred Acre Wood
The 2019 Jane and Torrence Harder Lecture will be held Thursday, Sept. 12, at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. A garden party will follow outside the Botanic Gardens’ Nevin Welcome Center; both events are free and open to the public...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
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Discovery could mitigate fertilizer pollution in waterways
Phosphorus from fertilized cropland frequently finds its way into rivers and lakes, and the resulting boom of aquatic plant growth can cause oxygen levels in the water to plunge, leading to fish die-offs and other harmful effects. Researchers...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
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Deployment of plant genes critical to safeguarding wheat
Severe wheat disease epidemics produce staggering numbers of genetically diverse spores – and incalculable risks to global food supplies. If fungal spores encounter even a single susceptible wheat variety, natural selection positions the...
  • International Programs
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Cheese, love and understanding: Judges know the whey
For three days in early August at Stocking Hall, a handful of judges saw, sniffed and sampled 234 cheeses in 24 categories – all of it made in New York. The judges whittled the field down to a small group of contenders, then determined the top...
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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CALS strengthens NYC connections with new grant projects
These three-year projects will add to the more than 60 existing CALS initiatives in New York City, further strengthening the ties between upstate and downstate. These projects also support the broader goals of President Martha E. Pollack’s...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Communication
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Michael Rosato: Creating a sustainable & affordable future for NY growers
What drew you to the program with Steve Reiners? I first worked in Steve Reiners’s program at the beginning of my undergraduate years as a summer technician. Steve always took the time to answer questions and helped me explore the world of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Students hunt for maple seedlings in the name of science
This summer, a small team of citizen scientists – including two students from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – bushwhacked their way through dense forest growth and clouds of biting insects. Their mission: gather scientific data...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Plants
  • Food
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Murray’s Stockinghall cheese tops national competition
Murray’s Stockinghall cheese – a bright, lemony, cloth-bound cheddar named for Cornell’s Stocking Hall and developed at the university in partnership with Old Chatham Creamery of Groton, New York – won best in show at the 36th American Cheese...
  • Food Science
  • Food