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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
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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