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What is your connection to dairy farming? I have worked on Eildon-Tweed Farm for the last 12 years. Prior to that, I worked on my father’s 50-cow dairy in Middlesex, NY. At age 5, my family moved to Oneonta, NY where my father owned a 2000-cow...
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What is your connection to dairy farming? My grandfather came to the United States from Austria around 1960 looking for work on a farm, and eventually he saved enough money to buy the family farm in Fabius. I spent the majority of my childhood...
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She grew up working on her family’s farm in western New York, and now majors in animal science with a focus on dairy management. Starceski is one of four Cornell first-year students who’ve received $20,000 scholarships from Chobani to help them...
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Younger consumers aren’t engaging with it like their older peers, and are drinking less in general, but sustainably produced wine could change that. According to a 2019 Wine Intelligence consumer survey, sustainable wine had the highest future...
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Fay-Wei Li, adjunct assistant professor of plant biology and a faculty member of the Boyce Thompson Institute, and researchers from across the globe sequenced the genomes of three hornworts, illuminating the dawn of land plants. The group also...
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The coronavirus pandemic has impacted lives around the world in numerous ways, and Cornell faculty members are sharing their expertise on everything from the virus itself to how it will affect local and global economies.
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A new survey shows that members of marginalized communities have broader views on what qualifies as an environmental issue, including human-oriented factors, like drug use and unemployment.
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Asked how it self-corrects for climate change, the businessman, now shoulder-deep in water, replies: “By producing more lifeboats!” Cathy Kling, Tisch University Professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, said...
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Provost Michael Kotlikoff launched the initiative in fall 2016 across six cross-college discipline areas, each covered by a faculty task force: nanoscale science and microsystems engineering; genome biology; data science; sustainability...
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When ground-dwelling parasites munch on the roots of plants, they don’t just damage the roots: They trigger chemical changes in the plant itself.
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Research is something I love and gets to the heart of my curiosity. What drives me is understanding how climate change impacts real people and societies. Research doesn’t just mean sitting in a lab: For my honor thesis project, it meant speaking...
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“Armenia is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change,” said Allison M. Chatrchyan, senior research associate in the Department of Global Development. “Temperatures there are rising more than the global average, drought is...
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A new study shows that pumpkin pollen can lower bumblebees' defenses and prevent their eggs and larvae from maturing.
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Everything changed when I came to Cornell as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship participant. The Humphrey Fellowship Program provides mid-career specialists from developing countries the opportunity to spend a year at Cornell University learning...
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“I’m cooperating with so many other majors that I have never come into touch with – it’s just so brand-new and refreshing,” said Jel Zhao ’20, an animal science major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), one of nearly 150...
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Researchers have developed a method to identify salmonella serotypes in a mere two hours, allowing food safety sleuths to find the sources of bacterial contamination more quickly.
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All farms that meet market and income requirements and that grow fruits and vegetables commonly eaten raw are now required to comply with a new set of regulations aimed at keeping fresh fruits and vegetables – everything from salad greens...
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Artist Nathaniel Stern ’99 is posing these questions in dramatic ways with “ The World After Us: Imaging techno-aesthetic futures,” an exhibition through March 29 at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in Milwaukee. It includes installations, sculptures...
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“Cassava is our daily food in Uganda,” says Ozimati, Ph.D. ’18, now a plant breeder working for a national program in his country. “It’s what we grew up with and what we still love.” That food – and the livelihood of millions of farmers like...
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