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Dairy Drives connect NYS milk and cheese with families in need
In Lewis County, CCE organized a dairy drive through in Lowville. The event, pulled together in just a week, distributed 500 gallons of milk plus dairy products donated from the American Dairy Association Northeast, Kraft Heinz, and the...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Food

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Extension Responds: Resilience Across New York State

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension

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Atkinson COVID-19 grants could inform policy decisions

The funded research projects could yield new tools and reports that may help policymakers make better decisions – during pandemics or other health crises. One project aims to produce a mathematical model that allows government officials to...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Disease
  • Behavior
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Botanic Gardens mural nurtures connections with plants
“A Dança Da Natureza” (The Dance of Nature) incorporates nature, a human figure, animals and stylistic images in bright, vivid colors that enliven the north side of the Nevin Welcome Center. The mural expresses the aura and spirit of plants...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Plants
  • Environment
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Elena Setiadarma ’21: Taking classroom lessons to the global stage

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
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Chris Peritore-Galve: Defending a Dissertation in an Online World
Like other students in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, graduate students based at Cornell AgriTech are adapting to the challenges of remote learning during the COVID-19 crisis. As students from the Geneva campus continue to...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

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COVID-19 impact: Miguel Gómez on food supply chains

Miguel Gómez, an expert on food markets and supply chains, says food supply chains must become more flexible so that goods can be more easily directed to either supermarkets or food service establishments, wherever the need is greatest. Current...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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LEAD New York honored for innovation, creativity

  • Community and Regional Development Institute
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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CCE takes on #4HMaskTask
The NYS 4-H Mask Task centralizes those efforts and calls upon all New Yorkers to get involved in crafting cloth masks for our communities in need. 4-Hers, clubs, and volunteers across Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) can get involved...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Orange County Gleaning Program feeds neighbors in need
The need for food assistance is growing while emergency food agencies are closing or providing limited access. The Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County Gleaning/Food Access Program, comprised of both CCE staff and Master Gardener...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Professor helps organize county food task force
Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor of global development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, collaborated with three community leaders over the past few weeks to get this countywide task force up and running. The task force is divided...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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Cornell AgriTech center helps business adapt to COVID-19
Our Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture (COE) has been helping food and ag businesses adapt to the COVID-19 economy with new marketing strategies and by diversifying products. “Whether we are helping startups with their business plans or looking at ways that we can assist farmers during the upcoming growing season,” said Cathy Young, executive director of the COE. "We want members of the food and ag community to know that we are here for them.”
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
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CCE Celebrates Volunteers for National Volunteer Week
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” — Fred Rogers Cornell Cooperative Extension volunteers have been making a difference for...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
CALS Alumna Deborah Arrindell '79 walks outside the Amgen Inc. campus in Thousand Oaks, California.

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My Cornell story: Deborah Arrindell '79
Deborah Arrindell ’79 has 19 years of experience in the pharmacology and biotechnology industries. She currently works as an executive medical director in global patient safety and labeling at Amgen Inc. located in Thousand Oaks, California. My...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Health + Nutrition
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New specializations accelerate growth of MPS programs
Gagne graduated with a degree in horticulture and a specialization in controlled environment agriculture and recently landed an apprentice grower position at BrightFarms, a company based in the Hudson Valley. Controlled environment agriculture...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
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Q&A with reproductive biologist Yi Athena Ren
How did you become interested in reproductive biology? It all started when I attended a lecture by a well-respected reproductive biology professor at my undergraduate university in China. I was dabbling in research at that time, and his lecture...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Biology

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Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture helps startups take off

“While formula had everything she needed to thrive and grow, it didn’t have everything we wanted for her,” said Ippolito, a lecturer in the Engineering Management Program at Cornell. In summer 2019, she launched SimpliFed, a startup company...

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
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Researchers develop market for East Coast broccoli
This project is no small undertaking. One of the challenges stems from the fact that broccoli was originally cultivated for Mediterranean climates, so growing it in the U.S. confuses the plant’s developmental cues. Broccoli flower buds and heads...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
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New leadership drives diversity and inclusion initiatives at CALS
Now, as students complete the spring semester from off-campus locations, CALS’ efforts to make sure that they feel safe and supported are more crucial than ever. “It’s very important that a sense of belonging envelops our Cornellians who are now...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
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'Just Food' course broadens students' perspectives of food systems
The course, Just Food: Exploring the Modern Food System, benefits from an interdisciplinary pair of instructors: Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor in the Department of Global Development, and Frank Rossi, associate professor of horticulture in the...
  • Food Science
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science