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Narrative approach can change minds on child care spending
According to new multi-institution research led by Jeff Niederdeppe, professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, that all depends on whose hearts and minds are in the audience. For turning...
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication
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Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announces 2021 Virtual Technical Workshop
This year the BGRI will host a virtual conference October 6-8 with the theme “Global Resilience: Science, Pandemics, and the Future of Wheat.” The 2021 BGRI Virtual Technical Workshop will explore how nearly two decades of monitoring and responding to wheat rust epidemics can provide lessons for other global disease outbreaks such as COVID-19. Keynote speakers will draw attention to how we can apply the lessons learned from wheat research and epidemic response to other pandemic diseases facing today’s world.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

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$2M grant to fund assessment of biology education

The National Science Foundation has awarded a nearly $2 million collaborative research grant to principal investigators from Cornell, the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the University of Maine to assess the effectiveness of open educational resources in teaching core biology concepts, facilitating student-centered learning and supporting diversity, equity and inclusion.

  • Biology

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Boots in the books: Veterans succeed at academic prep camp

Sixteen students veterans participated in a virtual Cornell academic boot camp to help them transition into higher education.

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Troubled Waters: Microplastic Pollution
Lisa Watkins, graduate researcher in our Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, analyzes streams and engages communities to reduce the plastic from clothes, grocery bags, and other products in our waterways.
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Environment
  • Water
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Scientists take step to improve crops’ photosynthesis, yields
Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) are known to photosynthesize more efficiently than most crops, so researchers are working to put elements from cyanobacteria into crop plants. A new study describes a significant step towards achieving that goal...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Environment
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Facial recognition AI helps save multibillion dollar grape crop
A radical collaboration between a biologist and an engineer is supercharging efforts to protect grape crops, and the technology they’ve developed will soon be available to researchers nationwide.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Touted as clean, ‘blue’ hydrogen may be worse than gas or coal
‘Blue hydrogen – made by using methane in natural gas – is lauded a clean, Cornell and Stanford researchers believe it may harm the climate more than burning fossil fuel.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Energy

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TV ads inspire investment interest

In a new Cornell-led study, published Aug. 10 in Management Science, researchers show that advertising is one of the most noteworthy influences behind retail stock investing.

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Sarah Evanega Joins BTI Faculty

Boyce Thompson Institute is pleased to welcome Professor Sarah Evanega as the newest addition to our faculty. Evanega joins BTI from Cornell University, where she was a research professor in the Department of Global Development and the School of Integrative Plant Sciences (SIPS). She will remain an adjunct associate professor in SIPS at Cornell.

  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Health + Nutrition
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Politicians in areas with most climate risk tweet about it least
Almost all U.S. politicians tweet about climate change based on party affiliation and the opinion of their constituents, not actual climate risk to the areas they represent, a new multidisciplinary study found.
  • Department of Communication
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Global Development Section
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Quotes Du Jour from the Humphrey Fellows
What the Cornell Humphrey Program director Peter Gregory and I have in common is we both love quotes! Quotes put words to our unexplainable fears, inspire us to stand up for ourselves and take risks, and open our eyes to the struggles we share...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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International Humphrey Fellows build lasting American friendships
Every August, a new international cohort of Cornell Humphrey Fellows arrives in Ithaca, New York. While each Fellow is an accomplished professional in their own right, many begin their fellowship feeling lonely, uncertain, and disconnected from...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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New York Youth Institute announces student delegates to global youth event
Cornell's New York Youth Institute (NYYI) announced the selection of 20 outstanding high school students who will represent New York State as delegates to the 2021 World Food Prize Global Youth Institute.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Field Note

An unusual Humphrey Fellowship year

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell Humphrey Fellows’ inspiring resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Sowing a more equitable future

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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Cornell's Humphrey Program: An opportunity to grow and lead
Humphrey Program associate director Polly Endreny Holmberg recounts a first year with the program full of uncertainty, experimentation and inspiring support.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Harold van Es: ‘Building Soils’ yields multiple benefits
This summer, the United States Department of Agriculture's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program published the fourth edition of Building Soils for Better Crops — arguably the most influential publication on soil health...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Field Crops
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Food scientists create national atlas for deadly listeria
The pathogen listeria soon may become easier to track down in food recalls, thanks to a new genomic and geological mapping tool created by Cornell food scientists.
  • Food Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section