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Fils-Aimé delivers inaugural Leaders in Residence lecture
Fils-Aimé is the inaugural Leader in Residence at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His talk, sponsored by the Dyson Leadership Program, focused on a list of guiding principles for leaders that he developed while...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Fresh produce earns ‘halo effect’ under new GMO-labeling laws
The research, “ Signaling Impacts of GMO Labeling on Fruit and Vegetable Demand,” published online Oct. 30 in the journal PLOS One. The study comes as food marketers prepare for a new federal law requiring genetically modified organism...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Genetics
  • Food
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Women on Instagram derided as too real – or not real enough
This leaves women on Instagram caught in an “authenticity bind” – the nature of social media compels them to share details from their personal lives, but these details make them vulnerable to abuse or charges that they’ve “curated” or faked...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Digital agriculture workshop highlights radical collaborations
Two Cornell researchers are tackling the age-old problem using 21st century tools: inexpensive, touch-sensitive soft robots that can help growers predict yield and detect fungal threats.' Justine Vanden Heuvel, associate professor of...
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Project partners researchers, librarians & AI to fight hunger
But research sometimes points in different directions. So it can be hard for policymakers to decide where to dedicate limited funds, and how best to help farmers adopt the right crops. Ceres2030, a global effort led by International Programs in...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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CCE connects local farms, foodies through Taste NY
Owners John and Dawn Alfano have fed their 19 dairy goats a breakfast of sweet feed mixed with black sunflower seeds before releasing them to a hillside paddock, where they sunned themselves in dappled grass, snacked on crispy golden maple...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture

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Symposium seeks to beat back ‘zombies,’ grow sustainable housing

In fact, so-called “zombie homes” – often left vacant and unmaintained during prolonged foreclosure proceedings – are a serious problem that drew experts from academia, government and nonprofit organizations to Cornell Oct. 23-24 for a symposium...

  • Community and Regional Development Institute
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Borlaug Field Award winner delivers message of self-reflection and gender equality
For those from the United States, the mental image may be an older white man standing next to a gleaming new tractor beside a 1,000 acre field rippling with golden wheat. But in many other parts of the world, the reality of farming is much...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Anna Wallis: Helping protect the health of New York state’s apples
What drew you to the program at Cornell AgriTech? Apples! I’ve been working with tree fruit since I was an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, and I was previously a regional apple specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension. Not only...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

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Health inequities and storytelling in new podcast episode

“My work has sought to identify specific strategies that both convey fundamental causes of health inequities but also offer promising solutions to address them via policy change,” says Jeff Niederdeppe, associate professor of communication in...

  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Communication
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Art and science provide fertile ground for research, teaching
“I remember having a conversation with a French artist in Berlin who was working on a sound installation to investigate the sounds of soil,” said Lehmann, professor of soil and crop sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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CCE’s Blocks in Bloom helps communities flourish
Her mother, Lydia Rivera-Warr, was taken aback by her child’s observation. “But she was right,” says Rivera-Warr. “Back then, not only was Emerson Street strewn with litter, it was a place where drugs were sold openly and prostitutes hung around...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Nature
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Simoes-Costa wins $2.3M NIH New Innovator Award
With a grant of $2,355,000 over five years, Marcos Simoes-Costa, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics, will investigate how the spatial complexity of an organism is generated in early development. “For the human body to be...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Biology

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New global development unit calls for ‘education with impact’

The Department of Global Development will draw from faculty across the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to create a unified development studies program focused on engagement with the world’s grand challenges at home and abroad...

  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Bailee Hopkins-Hensley is connecting people to plants
Bailee Hopkins-Hensley ’18, MPS ’19, is passionate about exploring the connections that humans have to plants – especially the connections that indigenous communities have to the species that sustain them. She earned a bachelor’s degree in plant...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

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Dyson faculty member receives Weiss teaching award

The Stephen H. Weiss Awards were announced Oct. 18 by President Martha E. Pollack in a report to the Cornell University Board of Trustees. The eight awardees were unanimously recommended by a selection committee composed of six faculty members...

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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Eastern Broccoli Project on track to meet $100M goal
“I think we’re going to hit it,” said Thomas Björkman, Cornell professor of horticulture and the project’s principal investigator. Between 2012 and 2017, the number of New York state broccoli farms increased from 290 to 535, and the number of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Chickpea snack startup aims to disrupt junk food industry
Antithesis was recently awarded a $225,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award from the National Science Foundation to explore additional ways to make its nutrient-dense chickpea dough part of the processed foods industry. The...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science

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New Feed the Future Innovation Lab to leverage top U.S. researchers

The establishment of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement (ILCI) will create an integrated research and delivery program with multidisciplinary expertise at the cutting-edge of agricultural development, from plant breeding and...

  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell’s Humphrey Program marks 40 years of public service
Pratim Roy envisioned a learning center for those in his native region. In 2013, a yearlong stay at Cornell as part of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program helped him hone key leadership and managerial skills. He returned home to India and...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section