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Extreme variations found in flower scent evolution

Research co-led by Robert Raguso, professor of neurobiology and behavior, explains why plants of the same variety in different locations can have dramatically different scents.

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Rebekah Jones '20: changing lives for people, communities
She was inspired to help people pursue free and safe lives. Her Cornell CALS education made it possible.
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Hackathon highlights digital ag solutions
The hackathon is an opportunity to explore what technology can do to address challenges in food and agriculture, and take ideas from concept to reality.
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture

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Edgar Gasteiger, biologist and Cornell ‘citizen,’ dies at 99

Edgar Gasteiger, professor emeritus of physical biology, died on Feb. 9 in Ithaca, New York, at age 99.

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Schumer announces $68.9 million for USDA grape lab at Cornell AgriTech
After years of advocating for funding to improve the infrastructure for grape research, U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer announced Feb. 26 $68.9 million to build a new federal grape genetics research lab at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, New York.
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Raindrops launch plant spores into the wind, spread fungi
Researchers from Cornell and Virginia Tech have identified the process by which fungus is spread from plant to plant, carrying disease that costs billions annually in lost crops.

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Dean's message

Kathryn J. Boor '80, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, introduces the life-changing research we're doing to help farmers, communities and businesses embrace new technologies through innovation and the application of pioneering solutions to today's ongoing challenges.

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Michał Matejczuk named a 2019-20 Luce Scholar

Graduate student Michał Matejczuk has been named a Luce Scholar by the Henry Luce Foundation and will spend a year working in Asia starting this summer.

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Living shorelines offer hope for state’s coastal communities
As climate change threatens coastal areas, experts from the New York Sea Grant program are involved in a project to protect the state’s shorelines and the people who live near them.
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Around the quad
Learn about an expanded major, a broadened diversity program and new campus leadership in this round-up of news from the year.
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Cornell AgriTech grows legacy of innovation
Name change underscores the value Cornell AgriTech brings to the people, environment and economy of the state and beyond.
Joseph Onyeka, Chiedozie Egesi, Robert Kawuki and Jean-Luc Jannink inspect new cassava varieties in Uganda field

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Cassava experts gather to champion ‘orphan crop’
Cassava hasn't received the scientific attention of cash crops such as wheat, but the seventh annual meeting of NextGen Cassava hopes to draw attention to the sub-Saharan Africa dietary staple.

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Mahowald to lead conference on atmospheric CO2 removal

Climate change expert Natalie Mahowald will deliver the keynote address on removing atmospheric carbon at the 2019 Polson Institute Future of Development symposium.

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Upstream, downstream
Millions of times each day, New Yorkers turn on the faucet, relying on water supplied from about 125 miles away in the Catskill Mountains. Cornell CALS expertise keeps the award-winning water pristine.

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Q&A with Neil Lewis Jr. 

His research aims to understand processes underlying social disparities in order to develop policies to address them.

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New roots are foundation for big changes
Apple-growing operations over the past half-century have undergone a stark transformation. But the story of the modern apple orchard begins in many ways below ground.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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Mapping the lipid universe of cows
Insulin resistance research provides clues that could inform care of cows and humans alike.
Costus curvibracteatus and Costus maboumiensis

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Adaptation
Understanding how plants evolved in the past is opening insights into how they might adapt in the future—especially under the existential threat of global climate change.
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A recipe for success
Now in its 30th year, our Cornell Food Venture Center helps bring about 2,000 products to market each year, aiding startups and established companies alike.
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The great disruption: What happens when Earth's population hits 10 billion?
Rapid and radical changes are happening across agriculture as digital technology expands a farmer’s capacity to produce high-quality, nutritious food.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station