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As Cyphocoleus carabid beetles walk through the forests, the varnish-like substance exuded by glands picks up surrounding debris, creating the perfect disguise to blend into its surroundings.

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The talk from State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball will highlight agricultural topics related to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2017 New York State of the State Address.

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Cornell engineers hope that clean water runs deep. They have developed a new way to test for more micropollutants in lakes and rivers that vastly outperforms conventional methods.

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The award recognizes the advances agricultural research has made on the global food system and its potential to improve human nutrition.

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The institute will initially include faculty from CALS, Arts and Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Engineering, and Human Ecology. It will likely expand to Weill Cornell Medicine in New York in the future.
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eCornell's new Women in Leadership online certificate program provides women with a highly personalized approach to achieving their leadership goals.

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Cornell’s Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship Program seeks to increase the public impact of top underrepresented thinkers in the U.S. and to help them contribute to public conversations.

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A new course, Hydroponic Food Crop Production and Management, teaches the principles and practices of commercial food crop production in controlled environment agriculture.

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Olena Vatamaniuk has received an award from the Schwartz Research Fund for Women in Life Sciences. The annual awards support women life scientists conducting innovative, risk-taking research.

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Buckle up your economic seat belts: Cornell's Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management will host the annual Agricultural and Food Business Outlook Conference on Jan. 24.

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Three Cornell University faculty will present big ideas on microbiome science to a gathering of influential thought leaders at the World Economic Forum Jan. 18 in Davos, Switzerland.

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Cornell professor Ludmilla Aristilde is unraveling how intricate waste biomass converts to biofuels by studying the bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum's sugar-processing complexities.

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The story of Project FeederWatch – a program where members track birds visiting their feeders – provides an example of how technology has helped citizen science grow bigger in unexpected ways.

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The list compiled by Thomson Reuters names the top 1 percent of researchers in their fields for journal citations over the past decade.

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To better understand, prevent and treat diseases passed from insects to people, the Cornell-led Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases will launch later this month.
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Cornell now milks the sun for energy: The university formally opened three additional solar farms in December that will generate large amounts of electricity and help the campus achieve carbon neutrality.

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Stock returns in politically sensitive industries fall into predictable patterns of winners and losers after a new president is elected, according to a new study by economist Jawad Addoum, assistant professor of finance.

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Dean Boor's capstone address at the New York Agricultural Society’s annual meeting and forum focuses on collaboration .

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New assistant director discusses his background, vision for NYSAES

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Bariatric surgery can slim your body, but attitude and behavior also play key roles in long-term weight loss, according to new research from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.