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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.
flower fossils

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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.
Before and after photo showing decline of large sunflower sea stars

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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
Zach Stansell harvesting vegetables in field

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Zachary Stansell: paving the way for a New York broccoli industry
Doctoral student Zachary Stansell discusses the possibilities of growing a reliable broccoli industry in New York state and the Northeast.

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Computer program aids food safety experts with pathogen testing

A new computer program can help food safety experts tasked with monitoring production plants for food-borne pathogens.

staff at the Kenya Children’s Science Center gather after workshop

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Program advances art of team building around the world
The Cornell Alliance for Science’s Global Leadership Fellows program teaches teams how to function across differences, so that workers can thrive in a culture of trust and respect.
  • Global Development Section

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Schwartz awards fund research in organ size, diabetes

Cornell professors Adrienne Roeder and Bethany Cummings both will receive $15,000 as winners of the 2019 Schwartz Research Fund for Women in the Life Sciences award.

The School of Industrial and Labor Relations, NYC

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Historic building is hub for Cornell in NYC
On Jan. 2, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ new New York City headquarters and conference center opened in the historic General Electric building at 570 Lexington Ave. Several other Cornell colleges, units and programs will soon be using space in the building.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Johannes Lehmann speaks with extension officials in western Kenya about soil organic matter

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CO2 soil sequestration plan aims to relieve atmospheric warming
An international group of scientists and other professionals, co-led by a Cornell professor, have offered solutions for sequestering atmospheric carbon.
Steven Kyle speaking at the Dyson School’s 2019 Agricultural and Food Business Outlook Conference

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U.S. economy’s current growth will peak in 2019
The U.S. economy has been on a long, slow upward trend for eight years, but a Cornell economist predicts that – like all good things – the steady growth will soon come to an end, likely by the end of the year.
Bee on apple blossom

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Natural habitats, bee diversity key to better apple production
A study of bees in apple orchards revealed that a wider diversity of species had a positive effect on apple production.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Department of Entomology
  • Agriculture

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Statement from Dean Boor on the 2019 New York budget

Statement from Kathryn J. Boor, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of CALS, regarding New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's 2019 State of the State and Budget Address.

Zeyu Hu, Rajendra Shende, Frederick Dubee, and Vinita Apte holding toolkits at COP24

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Students, faculty shape global effort to cool a warming world
In a whirlwind of seminars, plenary sessions and corridor conversations, 17 Cornell students and six faculty attended COP24 in Katowice, Poland in December.

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Workforce expert helps NY ag respond to challenges

Richard Stup, an agricultural workforce specialist in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is working on ways to help New York state’s farmers tackle workforce issues.