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The willingness to make lifestyle changes to avert climate change may depend on the moral values closely aligned with liberal political leanings, according to Cornell research.

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The Career Accomplishment Award is considered a capstone for individuals who have achieved extraordinary distinction for their scholarly efforts in research or extension.

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A Facebook post about a bad day, the placement of chocolate milk in the school cafeteria, taxes on sodas: Research on strategies for health and wellbeing is now encroaching on the turf of advertising, social media and behavioral economics. To...

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Communication

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The CALS Alumni Association and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences honor alumni who have achieved recognized success in their businesses, professions, or other avocational endeavors; have been actively involved in, worked for, and...

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Stephen B. Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, served on Cornell’s board of trustees for 16 years and as a co-chair of the Far Above capital campaign for ten years, and this is his 45th consecutive year serving on the...

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Mary Maxon Grainger ’79, MPS ’87, and Bradley Grainger ’79 started serving Cornell as undergraduates, and they have never stopped. The CALS grads and longtime Ithacans are two of the six 2016 recipients of the...

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Inspired by long Cornell ties and the Communication Department’s new state-of-the-art space in Mann Library, John Fraser ’83 and Amy Brown Fraser ’84 are donating $500,000 to Comm, the largest single donation...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 For two weeks this summer, the magnificent brick archways, colorful tile mosaics and stained glass of Barcelona’s Hospital de Sant Pau welcomed associate professor of landscape architecture Maria Goula and...
  • Landscape Architecture
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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Researchers in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering have created a doughnut that could be good for diabetes treatment. Each only three millimeters across, the ring-shaped particles offer a...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Inside every plant leaf, emerald chloroplasts harness water, light and carbon dioxide and create energy, a fundamental reaction that both is life and gives life. One of its powerhouse enzymes is the target of...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 The wings of many butterflies, like the common buckeye, sport large round “eyespots” that help them attract mates and deflect would-be predators. Associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Robert...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 New positions funded as part of the college’s Faculty Renewal Initiative will bring additional expertise in fisheries and fermentations to CALS. The Dwight A. Webster Faculty Fellowship in Fisheries and Aquatic...

  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Food Science
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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 On a twilit summer evening in 1991, President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes played the back nine holes at the university golf course with alumnus Tim Vanini ‘91. “It was an awesome night for golf,” Vanini said....

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Orange is the new hot color when it comes to nutrition and human health. And thanks to agricultural economist Jan Low, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’94, and her efforts introducing the orange-fleshed sweet potato into...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 When some of the world’s best golfers teed off in the 72-hole Olympic competition, they were navigating fairways and greens imagined and designed by a pair of Cornellians. Gil Hanse, MLA ’89, bested a field of...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Do you believe that things happen in life for a reason? I do. It seems that my journey from Cornell to a career in the pharmaceutical industry was meant to be. In 1989, I entered Cornell as a freshman in the...

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 It started as a simple idea: Cornell students learning about farming should have someplace to actually farm. Thus was born Dilmun Hill. In the 20 years since students tilled those first three acres, the farm...

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By Ellen Leventry periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Toby Ault, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, caused a big splash in 2015 when he and co-authors from Columbia University and NASA published a paper showing that, because...

  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Cornell University has begun “a new era of business education” with the launch of the College of Business on July 1, Dean Soumitra Dutta said. The College of Business, comprising Cornell’s three accredited...

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Building on its capacity as a center for food product development and food safety innovation, Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., is poised to expand its food development...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Institute for Food Safety
  • Food Science