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Meet our faculty: Heather Feaga

Academic focus : Molecular microbiology, bacteriology, biochemistry and genetics Research summary: My lab studies how bacteria translate the genetic code into protein. We use genetic screens to identify new factors that interact with the...

  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition

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Meet our faculty: Matt Marx

Academic focus: Innovation & entrepreneurship Research summary: I focus on reducing barriers to the commercialization of science and technology, which I experienced firsthand during a decade as an executive and engineer at two startups in the...

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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Meet our faculty: Joyce G. Chery
Academic focus: My lab focuses on the evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) of plants. We integrate classical plant anatomical and developmental techniques with systematics, phylogenetic comparative methods, and cell and molecular...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants
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Meet our faculty: Virginia Moore
Academic focus: Breeding for sustainable cropping systems, cover crops, intercropping, polycultures, organic farming systems, Legumes, forages, alfalfa, hemp Research summary: My research focus is on plant breeding for sustainable cropping...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
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‘Naturalized’ bulb plantings bloom around Ithaca
All around Ithaca, long swaths of flower bulbs are popping up through the still-dormant grass to provide some extra early-season color, thanks to Bill Miller and his Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program team. Miller is a professor in the School...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
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Field Note

So you want to change the environment to stop climate change? This researcher has questions

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Environment
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Climate change has cost 7 years of ag productivity growth
The future potential impacts of climate change on global crop production has been quantified in many scientific reports, but the historic influence of anthropogenic climate change on the agricultural sector had yet to be modeled. Now, a new...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
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Local planners play key role in conserving biodiversity
One survey respondent reported persuading a local planning board to limit development on a 52-acre parcel with significant wetlands, preserving forest canopy and a biodiversity corridor for animals. Another negotiated a proposed 150-unit...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Sustainability efforts shine with new solar collectors
The center on Caldwell Road – which houses research and teaching labs, growth chambers, controlled atmosphere storage rooms and greenhouse facilities – has installed 50 new solar collector panels. The system uses an innovative mirror technology...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Service, connection, leadership: Cornellians in the Peace Corps
In 2010, Freund volunteered for a two-year position in Zambia, where she focused on food and agriculture – familiar terrain following her studies in College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and her work on her family’s dairy farm in Connecticut...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
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How can mining rare-earth elements become more sustainable?
In the search for more sustainable energy technologies, many of the solutions humans are turning to – rechargeable batteries, massive wind turbines, electric cars, LED lighting – rely on what are known as rare-earth elements. There are 17 rare...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Energy
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Egesi earns highest honors for biotechnology work in Nigeria

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Study: genomic selection approach paves way for faster plant breeding
The ultimate challenge for crop breeders is to increase genetic gain of a crop: literally, to increase the crop’s yield on farmers’ fields. Wheat and maize breeders from Cornell University, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Block Party: Videogame version of campus brings the Hill to life
Welcome to CornellCraft, a virtual world created in the videogame Minecraft. Designed by a cadre of enterprising students and recent alumni, this ersatz East Hill is a massive work in progress — and it’s more than just a pastime. Since the COVID...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Biology
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Spotlight

In Good Taste: Crème de Cornell
For the past decade, Big Red foodies have been cooking up an increasingly impressive online magazine — featuring recipes, essays, travelogues, photography, illustrations, and more. And in the COVID era, the epub has only gained in popularity, as...
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Field Note

Carlyn Buckler: Understanding and communicating science
Carlyn Buckler is an associate professor of practice in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science. She teaches three innovative classes, heads up the Master of Professional Studies Hemp Science Focus Area, and is active...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
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NY maple producers tap Cornell experts to diversify
On Feb. 15, the weather in Lodi, New York, hovered in the low 20s and it snowed, but that didn’t stop chocolatier Claire Benjamin from setting up a table to greet customers outside her store. Benjamin owns Rue Claire Lavender Farm and Artisan...
  • Arnot Teaching and Research Forest
  • Uihlein Research Forest
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section

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New bird emerged from genetic shuffling

New research published March 25 in the journal Science challenges the typical model of speciation by documenting how a recently discovered songbird in South America traveled a very rare evolutionary path. The study delves into the origins of the...

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
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Cornell experts working to increase vaccine acceptance
Cornell experts – including Neil A. Lewis Jr. ’13, assistant professor of communication and social behavior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – have been part of several efforts to increase access and increase vaccine confidence...
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Communication

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Three Emerging Scholars to Lead New Research Partnerships

Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability has awarded postdoctoral fellowships to three emerging scholars in sustainability. The two-year fellowships provide the opportunity to bridge academic research and non-academic external organizations to...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Environment