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The C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award, which includes $20,000, was announced Nov. 10 at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ (APLU) annual meeting in San Diego. “We applaud Cornell for its comprehensive...
  • Agriculture
  • Organic
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It’s undeniably November, and everyone’s talking turkey – including the “Extension Out Loud” podcast from Cornell Cooperative Extension. Offering a bird’s-eye view of the turkey scene in New York state, hosts Katie Baildon and Paul Treadwell are...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Meat
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Yet conservation strategies have typically overlooked the habitats needed by females, putting already-declining species in even more peril, according to a new study in the journal Biological Conservation. “Among the small songbird species that...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Ecosystems
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Indeed, watermelon is one of the world’s most popular fruits, second only to tomato – which many consider a vegetable. But there are six wild species of watermelon, all with pale, hard and bitter fruits. Researchers have now taken a...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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By the end of her racing days, she had competed twice in sled dog racing’s equivalent to the Olympics – the International Federation of Sleddog Sports World Championships. And she ended her racing career with a bang, winning an extremely...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Genetics
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The grant, awarded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture on Sept. 1 and co-led by the University of Arkansas, is among the largest grants ever awarded by the USDA, and dovetails with Cornell’s land-grant missions of research...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Environment
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“It’s a bee oasis,” says Scofield, a Cornell doctoral candidate who studies honeybee health. The 50-acre organic farm, owned by the Wegmans grocery store chain, offers honeybees a wide variety of pollens to feed on, she says. It’s also the...

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  • Animal Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Academic focus: Weed biology, ecology and management in specialty crop systems Previous positions: Agronomy and Weed Science Advisor, Merced and Madera Counties, University of California – ANR, 2018-2019; Assistant Research Faculty, Department...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Organic
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Academic focus: I study digital governance and behavior change in groups and networks shaped by algorithms. I also organize citizen behavioral science with communities of millions toward a world where the power of digital technology is guided by...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Academic focus: Technology, work, and organization Previous positions: Associate/Assistant Professor, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009 – 2019; Terman Fellow and Jack A. McCullough Scholar and Assistant Professor...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Academic focus: Plant-microbe interactions, virology, plant-virus-vector interactions Previous position: Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology, University of California – Davis, 2014-2019. Academic background: PhD, Plant Biology, University of...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
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Academic focus: Moral Psychology Previous positions: Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2019; Professor, Sage School of Philosophy...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Behavior
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Academic focus: Organizational economics, development economics, entrepreneurship Previous positions: Postdoctoral Research Associate, IDE@MIT, MIT Sloan, 2018-2019. Academic background: Ph.D. in Economics, Department of Economics, University of...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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Academic focus: Reproductive Biology and Integrative Endocrinology Previous positions: Postdoc and Instructor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, 2012-2018. Academic background: Ph.D., Department of Animal...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Physiology
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Academic focus: Ecological modeling, vegetation-environment Interactions, plant functional ecology, plant hydraulics, ecological remote sensing, global change biology Previous positions: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Organismic...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
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“Moonbeam is a very good eating experience from start to finish … from first bite to aftertaste,” said Phillip Griffiths, associate professor of horticulture at Cornell AgriTech, who started developing Moonbeam in 2006 and made it a selection in...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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For military veterans interested in starting a career in agriculture, these problems can be exacerbated by limited funding for education and training, and fewer community and social connections, which are common challenges for veterans re...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Problem solved: Deep in an obscure online forum, years earlier, a woman from a far-away part of the world had posted the complicated sequence of button-pressing necessary to complete the task. “This is so routine for us that we don’t realize...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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On Oct. 29, members of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) came together to celebrate the 16th year of the Research & Extension Awards and the 10th year of the Core Value Staff Awards. The awards recognize the notable and wide...