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The four-day event, co-sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is expected to attract nearly 1 million participants this year, providing a global snapshot just before migration.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Biodiversity
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Seven teaching faculty from across the university have been awarded Cornell’s highest honors for graduate and undergraduate teaching.

  • Neurobiology and Behavior
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by Jackie Swift Farms generate huge amounts of data. A dairy farm in the United States, for instance, will typically produce data that tracks herd health and breeding, and milk production and quality, for a start. If the farm also grows its own...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • PRO-LIVESTOCK
  • Animal Science
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Grid sampling– a process where fields are divided into small grids and a soil sample is taken from each section for individual analysis– can generally be very informative. It is capable of capturing variability throughout a field that may have...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
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Cornell researchers studying microplastics, robotics and machine learning are recent recipients of National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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January 28, 2026 In Memoriam: Dawn Schrader
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The Cookfairs, who began farming together in New Jersey in 2010 before relocating to Georgia and then to the Finger Lakes, where they grow a variety of organic vegetables, including kale, mustard greens, broccoli, cauliflower, squash, and...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
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Research on prior surveys finds very few people have been asked why they chose not to take preventative actions.

  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Entomology
  • Disease
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Rohan Amin's Lurie Cup soccer tournament brings people together from Cornell and around New York state to support the pediatric hospital that saved his life.

  • Global Development
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January 21, 2026 Awards & Grants Professor danah boyd has been awarded a Research Seed Grant on “The Political Economy of AI,” receiving $5,000 from Cornell Global Hubs. This grant supports a collaboration with researchers at the University of...
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Jonathan Chai ‘24 worked for two years as an undergraduate research assistant in the lab of Robert Raguso , professor of neurobiology and behavior. Raguso’s lab made the first discovery that insects are attracted to plants as much by humidity as...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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Researchers developed a new model that can predict where a sampled particle of eDNA likely originated in a water body.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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A new data-informed approach to siting floating solar in the Northeast could help protect birds, without sacrificing clean energy gains.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
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Elizabeth Zhang ’26 is a senior in Animal Science with a concentration in pre-veterinary medicine. Currently she is an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Heather Huson , associate professor of animal genetics. We sat down together to talk...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Genetics
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A new analysis shows that improved farm productivity has been the driving force in keeping global greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in check, with implications for how countries support farmers and research.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
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Dawn Schrader, associate professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, known for her intellectual rigor and deep humanity, died Jan. 6 at age 67.

  • Communication
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Kelsey Alvarez del Castillo published the second paper documenting her studies on round goby in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society in January 2026. Round Goby are a highly invasive fish species that have recently invaded the...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Kayden Nasworthy’s paper on the dark refuge for mysids was accepted last week in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. He used uncrewed surface vessels – Saildrones – to collect hydroacoustic data in Lake Michigan and Lake...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Physics-based models should be supplemented with AI hydrological models rather than relying on site-specific estimates, researchers find.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Climate Change
  • Water
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One of the best ways to connect science to practice is through on-farm research. On-farm research can help farmers make informed decisions about how to efficiently use their resources (like fertilizer and seed) to grow high-yielding, high...
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Dairy