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A woman working in a field in India

News

A new resource at the Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI) for Agriculture and Nutrition’s Center of Excellence in New Delhi will help empower India’s 125 million smallholder farms to take advantage of growing opportunities in the agricultural sector.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
A man and a woman stand in a field of wheat, examining the growing plants

Spotlight

When Norman Borlaug said, “Rust never sleeps,” he was warning of the emergence of a highly virulent stem rust pathogen that threated wheat crops around the world. First identified in the wheat fields of Uganda, the fungal pathogen known as Ug99...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
A right whale breaches the surface

News

Without improving its management, the right whale populations will decline and potentially become extinct in the coming decades, according to a Cornell- and University of South Carolina-led report in the Sept. 1 journal Oceanography. “Most of...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Animals
  • Environment
Jenny Aker

News

Eleven development scholars and practitioners will address some of the world’s most urgent challenges — from racial and gender inequalities to climate change and resilient food security — in a new seminar series confronting perceptions about...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
Buz Barstow working in his lab at a lab bench

News

A new study identifies bacterial genes that may make it easier for scientists to engineer a bacteria that takes in renewable electricity and uses the energy to make biofuels.
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Energy
  • Bacteria
A student working in a lab

News

Seed grants and symposia based on themes from the Office of Academic Integration have bridged researchers from the Ithaca and New York campuses and have brought a high return on investment to Cornell.
  • Computational Biology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
 Margaret Ball tending to plants growing in a tray in a grow room.

News

Judiciously decomposing organic matter from 700 degrees Fahrenheit to 1,200 degrees F, without oxygen – a process known as pyrolysis, very different from incineration – and retaining nutrients from dairy lagoons can transform manure into a...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
An aerial view of a hurricane

News

Four days before the pop-up Category 4 Hurricane Ida made landfall Aug. 29 in Louisiana, Feuerstein had blogged and tweeted late on Aug. 25 about a group of muddled clouds forming in the south Caribbean. Meteorologists dubbed it 99L. Technically...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Nature
  • Climate Change
Three individuals film a documentary

Field Note

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
A man in India driving a car

News

New research from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) sheds light on the patterns of obesity within India, underscoring the need for policies and programs that consider the factors driving obesity rates within...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Food
high density apple planting at Cornell Orchards

News

At the 2021 joint meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) and the American Pomological Society (APS), Cornell apple researcher Terence Robinson was elected an ASHS Fellow, awarded the APS’s Wilder Medal and was co-author...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
A white-necked jacobin hummingbird on a branch

News

New research on the glittering white-necked jacobin hummingbird reveals nearly 20% of the species’ adult females have male-like plumage. Why? To dodge bullies and get better access to food, according to new Cornell research.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Behavior
Chloe Chavez standing with a cow outside a barn

News

Starting this fall, students can choose the new minor, which takes a multidisciplinary approach to help students understand the broad role of ag and food systems in feeding humans and impacting the natural environment.
  • Animal Science
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
A lake in a field

News

Scientists and water managers are working to predict conditions that create color changes and algal blooms, but that’s easier said than done. Researchers have mostly assumed that the ecosystem relationships that lead to these shifts are linear...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Environment
  • Water
A window in Mann Library that says Mann Cafe

News

On Monday, August 23, the new Mann Café opened its doors (off of the Mann Lobby) to offer a welcoming array of hot and cold drinks.
Three people at an award reception on a stage

News

NextGen Cassava project director Chiedozie Egesi was announced as the 2021 Achiever in Agriculture Award for his work creating a platform to deliver resilient food systems in Nigeria.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
A flock of birds surround an Airbus A330.

News

The risk of airplanes colliding with birds increases greatly during migrations, according to research from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and partners, who have been looking for patterns in data from three New York City-area airports.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment
High school students walking on campus.

News

Participating in Cornell’s Prefreshman Summer Program (PSP) helped Canyon Cross ’25 – a first-generation college student from Texas who hopes to major in biology and society – realize in advance how challenging the work would be.
  • Biology
Gretchen Goldman '06 siting at a table and speaking

News

Gretchen Goldman ‘06 is helping to inform policy at the highest level as the assistant director for environmental science, engineering, policy and justice for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
A school bus driving up a road in a very rural setting surrounded by fields

News

A new Cornell engaged learning course, co-sponsored by the Rural Schools Association of New York State, aims to help under-resourced schools identify critical funding needs, then seek grant funds to support programming.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Development