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Yolanda Gonzalez and Sam Anderson scout for harlequin bugs at farm.

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Urban expansion
From the rooftops of New York City to inner-city Buffalo, urban farms are sprouting across the Empire State with help from Cornell.
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Active learning energizes classrooms
Active learning teaching techniques are increasingly being used in classrooms across CALS as faculty revamp courses to emphasize creative and innovative thinking.

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February 2019 CALS Web Rethink Project Update

An update on upcoming Primacy visits for design, content and user experience testing; proposed CALS website rollout and web accessibility.

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Determined beauty

Daily life can sometimes feel mundane. For these alumni, beauty inspires what they do and how they live.

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Leonard Topoleski, vegetable crop expert, dies at 83

Leonard D. Topoleski, professor emeritus of vegetable crops and horticulture, died Feb. 8 in Sayre, Pennsylvania.

Aleah Butler Jones, David Call and Daniel Frea

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Then and Now
We invited current and former students to discuss their CALS educations, the state of agriculture and how digital technologies are changing all of our lives.
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A new order: Controlling the boundaries of social media
Social boundaries are collapsing online, complicating how people engage with news, politics and each other.
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
  • Media
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Atkinson Center postdoc fellows address global sustainability
The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future is welcoming five new postdoctoral fellows, who will study global food systems, health and energy transitions.
Christian Yunker with is daughter at Cy Farms in Elba, New York

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My Cornell story: Christian Yunker '02
CY Farms is incorporating digital technologies and Cornell expertise to tackle weather extremes.
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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.