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LEAD NY develops leaders in state’s ag community
LEAD NY, in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, helps professionals in the food, agricultural and natural resource industries develop critical leadership skills.
Larissa Osterbaan inspects grape leaves for disease

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Larissa Osterbaan: unraveling the genetic mysteries of grapevine disease
Research into the genetic background of a grapevine virus is opening new insights into disease threats across the wine and grape industry.
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Digital ag is Cornell’s newest radical collaboration initiative
Digital agriculture at Cornell has just been seeded for robust additional growth by being added as a strategic discipline area to the provost's radical collaboration initiative.
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
Natalie Mahowald

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Mahowald to Congress: Act now to arrest climate change
Cornell professor Natalie Mahowald offered straightforward and hopeful testimony on Earth’s warming atmosphere Feb. 13 in a three-hour hearing on climate change before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.

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New grant program funds novel conservation collaborations

The Atkinson Center is partnering with The Nature Conservancy on three funded research projects, related to climate change, renewable energy and wildlife management.

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A fresh look at China’s energy policy shows mixed results
Cornell researchers and their colleagues have created a new, comprehensive data set of China’s 2,656 energy-related policies operating in 30 provinces – and found they cancel each other out when it comes to energy consumption.

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Rosario Provvidenti, authority on vegetable diseases, dies at 97

Rosario Provvidenti, Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus of plant pathology, died on Feb. 1 in Geneva, New York. He was 97.

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NY’s ag economy faces low profits, big risks
The outlook for New York state’s farm economy is steady, with farm incomes likely to remain relatively low for a second straight year, according to Jennifer Ifft, assistant professor of applied economics and management.
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Cornell creates multicollege Center for Immunology
Building on Cornell’s decades of fundamental and comparative research in the immunological sciences, Provost Michael Kotlikoff has announced the creation of a new Cornell Center for Immunology.
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Extension podcast breaks down impact of 2018 Farm Bill
Season 3 of Cornell Cooperative Extension’s “Extension Out Loud” podcast series kicks off by unpacking what the 2018 Farm Bill means for New York state farmers and agricultural stakeholders.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture

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Study: Mosquitoes can hear up to 10 meters away

Cornell and Binghamton University researchers report for the first time that mosquitoes can hear over distances much greater than anyone suspected.

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Active Learning Initiative funds nine projects
Innovative projects to enhance undergraduate teaching and learning in nine departments have received funding administered by Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative.

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Cornell partners in center to tackle rural schools’ challenges

Scholars from Cornell, Harvard and Dartmouth, along with state officials in New York and Ohio, have established the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks to address challenges facing rural schools.

  • Development
Jack Madden watches as Andrea Stevenson Won uses a virtual reality simulator

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Study probes effect of virtual reality on learning
An exercise in learning phases of the moon conducted by the Virtual Embodiment Lab showed no real difference in learning between VR, hands-on and computer simulation methods.
Ning Zhang inspects CRISPR/Cas-edited tomatoes in a greenhouse

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New BTI database to foster efficiency, collaborations
Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute have announced the launch of the Plant Genome Editing Database, which they hope will lead to research efficiency and collaborations.
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Fight or flight: Serotonin neurons prompt brain to make the right call
Known for its role in relieving depression, the neurochemical serotonin may help the brain execute instant, appropriate behaviors in emergency situations, according to a new Cornell study Feb. 1 in Science.
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Once-abundant sea stars imperiled by disease along West Coast
Warming oceans and an infectious wasting disease has devastated populations of large sunflower sea stars once abundant along the West Coast of North America, according to new research in Science Advances.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
Steven E. Lefton, PLA, BSLA ’94

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Gift funds experiential learning activities for landscape architecture students
Gift from Steven E. Lefton, PLA, BSLA ’94 will allow Department of Landscape Architecture to fund experiential learning activities for students.
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
Heat maps showing bird observations in New York

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AI adjusts for gaps in citizen science data
Citizen science databases can be inconsistent, but Cornell researchers have developed a deep learning model that effectively corrects for location biases, leading to more reliable predictions.
Donna Lupardo, Richard Ball and Kevin Jordan sample products at the Taste NY table

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Cooperative Extension takes its message to Albany
Executive directors from Cornell Cooperative Extension county associations from across the state traveled to Albany Jan. 22 to meet with senators and Assembly members from their respective districts.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension