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Prabhu Pingali

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  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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The Cornell Rapid Research Response SARS-CoV-2 Seed Grant program – funded through the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the Center for Vertebrate Genomics, the Center for Immunology and the Office of Academic Integration – is now...
  • Biology
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As an assistant professor of plant biology in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Frank is used to working with dozens of tomato plants in her on-campus lab. These potted plants, however, were destined for another experiment...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants
A cabin in the woods

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Designed and fabricated by assistant professors of architecture Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, the Ashen Cabin uses wood from ash trees damaged by the emerald ash borer, sourced from Cornell’s 4,000-acre research forest in Van Etten, New York...
  • Arnot Teaching and Research Forest
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources
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More than 40 students and over a dozen faculty and staff were selected for their outstanding achievements in academics, teaching, advising and professional service. Because of restrictions to in-person campus events this spring, Dean Boor...
  • Animal Science
  • Computational Biology
  • Global Development Section
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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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In partnership with Sullivan Allies Leading Together (SALT), area school districts, the County’s Emergency Community Assistance Center, and others, Colavito and Bosket have been sweeping the county in the CCE Sullivan County Fresh Market-on-the...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Since September 2018, the Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture has supported more than 75 small, New York state-based companies. In this feature story, read about how the center has helped three of those businesses thrive.
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Craft Beverage Institute
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The event was coordinated by Cornell Botanic Gardens, in partnership with the Humphrey program and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Global Development. The webinar featured stories from three Humphrey fellows, who...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development

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Gavalchin’s research focused on autoimmune disease and immunology in animals, aimed at deriving strategies to improve animal health and production (goods from animals). She was also a teacher and mentor to hundreds of students. “During an...

  • Animal Science
  • Microbiology

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This Ezra series profiles recently hired faculty members across Cornell’s colleges, schools and units. In their own ways, these researchers, scholars and teachers embody the university’s creative and collaborative vitality. Below, we're...

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • Agriculture
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Their inquiry and scholarship span the globe, tackling topics from using the human body’s own immune response to fight diseases such as osteoarthritis (Tibra Wheeler, biomedical engineering) to gene sequencing grapevine diseases to improve plant...
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering

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From a leading dairy farmer in Columbia County to a legendary Cornell Cooperative Extension leader in New York City, from a passionate director of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe in the northernmost reaches of the state to a devoted veterinarian in...

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Dairy
  • Communication
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A volunteer for her class, a Cornell Hillel board member and a loyal donor, Morgan gives back in more ways than one and inspires others to do the same. The pins she collects serve as a visual reminder of the ways she strives to build lasting...

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“Most of the innovation has been in trying to find new ways to administer insulin or develop new types of insulin. But at the end of the day, that’s not really a functional cure,” says Shariati, a biomedical engineering major in the College of...

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Biology
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Our plant breeders are known for their innovative work in creating new varieties of fruits and vegetables. Developing these varieties is a complex yet creative process, and getting the varieties onto supermarket shelves also requires a tremendous amount of effort. Susan Brown, professor of horticulture, and Phillip Griffiths, associate professor of horticulture, explain how they bring the varieties they develop from seed to supermarket.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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The team has been awarded a special one-year, $200,0000 RAPID grant; co-principal investigator Sunghwan “Sunny” Jung, associate professor of biological and environmental engineering, will receive $75,000 of the total to design the mask. The...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Animals
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The milk donations are courtesy of the Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) cooperative in Syracuse; the Cornell Dairy processing plant in Stocking Hall; and 155 lactating cows at the Teaching Dairy Barn, part of Cornell’s College of Veterinary...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy

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The paper is co-authored by George Homsy, associate professor of public administration and director of the Sustainable Communities Program at Binghamton University, and Mildred Warner, professor of city and regional planning at Cornell. Their...

  • Food
  • Behavior
  • Environment

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The award is given annually to two outstanding TAs – one domestic and one international – who have demonstrated dedication and excellence in their teaching responsibilities. The award includes a certificate and a $500 prize. “Their commitment to...

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition