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Cornell social scientists honored for rural community impact
The project, known as W4001, conducts research on the most pressing challenges faced by rural communities, where population trends are reshaping arenas such as food production and natural resource management, land use, ecological sustainability...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Neurons thrive even when malnourished
In this process, called organ sparing, resources are preferentially delegated to the nervous system at the cost of less important organs or tissues. New research now shows that developing nervous systems demonstrate this preferential growth even...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Development
  • Genetics
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New York Wine and Grape Foundation: Cultivating wine and grape industry success with Cornell AgriTech
How has the New York state wine and grape industry grown in recent years? The industry has seen tremendous growth in the past decade as the result of liquor law changes and overall state support. In 2010, there were about 280 wineries in New...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Beverages
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Evergreen idea turns biomass DNA into degradable materials
Watch this video about how Cornell researchers are developing biodegradable plastics and gels by using DNA from fish, onions, algae and other organic matter.
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Plants
  • Biology
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Study explores how multiple organs end up the same size
Why do your arms grow the same length at the same time? New research shows that hormone signaling plays a critical role in controlling how organs develop — in plants, animals and humans.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants
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ILR students’ pants sales benefit women in India
Katrina Torres ’21 and Alena Madar ’21 traveled to India last summer as part of the ILR Global Service Learning program. Once there, they collaborated with ILR’s partner, the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM), and local tribal women to...
  • Computational Biology
  • Global Development
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National tick surveillance survey identifies gaps to be filled
Insufficient infrastructure, limited guidance on best practices and lack of institutional capacity also are impediments to improved tick monitoring, the researchers found. Their report, “A Survey of Tick Surveillance and Control Practices in the...
  • Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
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Mann award winner illuminates infectious diseases
Over that same time, Legionella – the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease – has developed defenses against humans’ white blood cells, known as the “defenders of the lungs.” “Immune cells in human lungs happen to act a lot like amoeba...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
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Atkinson, EDF to fund Cornell-led sustainability projects
Through an on-going partnership between the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), four Cornell faculty members have received new grants for three regional sustainability projects with global...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Agriculture
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Field Note

Pedersen Farms: Growing vegetables for the Northeast market with Cornell AgriTech
What has it been like to work with Cornell AgriTech over the years? We’ve had a close relationship with Cornell AgriTech over the years working with faculty there ever since we started farming in 1983. Both of us had worked on the Geneva campus...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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In time of COVID-19, Global Development students work globally, remotely

  • CALS Global Fellows Program
  • Global Development Section
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Podcast features Cornell Local Roads program
Part 1 with David Orr David Orr, director of the Cornell Local Roads program joins Extension Out Loud. Do you know who maintains the road you live on or the road you drive to work on? Maybe you’ve never thought about it less there’s a pothole or...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Ben Fields ’20: Big heart, bigger hopes to change the world

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Hunger fighters 'Take It to the Farmer' in June 25 virtual event from BGRI

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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New Engaged Research Grants awarded to 14 partnerships
Fourteen teams of faculty and community partners have received Engaged Research Grants from the Office of Engagement Initiatives to increase undergraduate involvement in research that strengthens the well-being of communities. “By combining two...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animal Science

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Antonie Blackler, pioneering biologist, dies at 88

He was known for groundbreaking fundamental work on the origin of sex cells in vertebrates. His experiments with South African clawed toads yielded important insights into the development and reproduction of amphibian embryos, with implications...

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Genetics

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NYC mayor appoints McComas to climate change panel

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed Cornell’s Katherine McComas, Ph.D. ’00, to the fourth New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), an independent group of 20 scientists who will synthesize climate study data and advise city...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Department of Communication
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Dream Work—Unpaid Labor in the Gig Economy
Stories abound of so-called social media influencers who earn thousands of dollars for a single post. The New York Times reported in July 2019 that the YouTube star du jour, Emma Chamberlain, made as much as $2 million a year from her videos...
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication

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Margaret Smith, new director and associate dean of Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station

Margaret Smith has been appointed as associate dean and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES), effective August 1, 2020. Margaret came to Cornell in 1987 as a faculty member in Plant Breeding and...

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
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Field Note

Ashley Leach: Advancing arthropod management in Indiana
In what ways did your experience as a graduate student at Cornell AgriTech shape your current career path? Cornell AgriTech is an excellent place to pursue your graduate degree. I was fortunate to have a diverse community supporting my research...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Crops