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Cornell faculty and graduate students welcomed girls in grades 7-9 to campus April 15 to learn about STEM and discover role models in the fields of science and math.

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Portraits of researchers and educators on their turf, from the rat burrows of city parks to the furrows of a rooftop farm in Brooklyn.

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The Institute for the Social Sciences' Small Grants Program is funding a series of critical social science projects and a conference with its spring 2017 awards.

Nina Bassuk

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From engineering soil for street trees to diversifying the urban forest, insights from Nina Bassuk on making horticulture thrive in cities.
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Not everyone can make it to the Big Leagues, but Kevin Kniffin reveals five lessons everyone can learn from sports.
Sara Perl Egendorf standing next to pile of soil

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Research and recommendations from the Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities project protects urban gardeners from residual soil contaminants.
Rich Stedman poses in classroom

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Richard Stedman explores our sense of place in the age of migration, global mobility, and urbanization.

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A new exhibit at Mann Library aims to introduce Cornellians to the early 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, whose impact on botany and horticulture was enormous, and runs through June.

colorful origami birds

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Pigeons, crows, sparrows, starlings and killdeer: These city-dwelling species rank low in the pecking order but have hidden talents and creature culture worthy of a second glance.

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Vice President Joe Biden, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January, will give the keynote address at this year's Senior Convocation, during Cornell's 149th Commencement Weekend.

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From preventing chronic sleep disruption to supporting people with bipolar disorder, researchers are leveraging smartphone technology for health and well-being.
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Faculty will share ideas on climate change April 21-23 at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit, while students ascend Capitol Hill on April 21, and then walk in the national Science March on April 22.
Professor Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

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Rapid urbanization and a young population is the challenge of a century.

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Cornell projects with a focus on apples, dairy, field crops, grapes, and vegetables received $1.1 million in funding from the New York Farm Viability Institute.

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Cornell doctoral students will collaborate with community partners from Ithaca to India on research projects supported by 2017 Engaged Graduate Student Grants.

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Mark Sellew ’78 and Lisa Preger Sellew ’79, MBA ’82, have established the Sellew Family Excellence-in-Mentoring Graduate Fellowship to support scholars and mentors in the School of Integrative Plant Science.

hydrogen bomb detonating

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Mary X. Mitchell, a historian of science and technology and a postdoctoral fellow, describes how a former nuclear test site became a proving ground for a new legal definition of environmental impact.

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Ninety-eight Cornell graduate and professional students will travel to 47 countries over the next year with support from the Einaudi Center's International Travel Grant Program.

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Michael Pollan, environmentalist and best-selling author, speaks on Out of the Garden at the 2017 Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture on April 27, in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.

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The illustrated science book from Professor Anurag Agrawl was released April 11