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Maylin Murdock: Cultivating data for hemp breeding
Maylin Murdock is a second-year plant breeding Ph.D. student working in the lab of Larry Smart, professor of horticulture at Cornell AgriTech. Maylin is originally from Vallejo, California, and came to Cornell AgriTech after receiving her B.S...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
Hannah Rudt in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.

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CALS senior wins national student employee award

For her work in developing and teaching nutrition and food justice curricula to adolescents in New York City, Hannah Rudt ’23 has won the 2023 National Student Employee of the Year award – the first Cornellian to ever receive this honor.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition

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New initiatives support Northeast dairy innovation

Applications are open for a new online entrepreneurship class for innovators with ideas for value-added dairy products, and finalists have been announced for a first-ever dairy products competition.

  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
  • Dairy
Andrew Scheldorf

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PhD Candidate Promotes Diverse Orchard
Andrew Scheldorf is challenging long-held beliefs about wild apples—and advocating for a more inclusive scientific community.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Cornell, Feed the Future collaboration expands options for farmers in Costa Rica
Research by Ph.D. student Sergio Puerto involved recruiting farmers as citizen-scientists to grow and assess seeds under a far greater diversity of conditions than would be possible for plant breeders to do alone.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Jake Edwards gives introductory remarks during the canoe dedication ceremony at Cass Park.

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Students donate handmade canoe to Haudenosaunee youth

On May 7, Cornell students presented a handmade canoe to Hickory Edwards, Onondaga Nation Turtle Clan member and founder of the Haudenosaunee Canoe Journey, a program that guides Indigenous youth through ancestral waterways in upstate New York.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Environment
  • Development
Dave Walczak, operations manager of Eden Valley Growers co-op in Eden, New York, checks on Brussels sprouts growing on 2,000 acres of co-op members’ farmland.

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Upstate 2.0 wins $1M NSF award to transform economy

A $1M award will support Upstate 2.0, which aims to grow the regional economy in upstate New York while helping to realize the state and nation’s goal of a net-zero carbon economy.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Agriculture

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Norman Potter, ‘Food Science’ author, dies at 96

Norman Potter ’50, an award-winning teacher and mentor who wrote the foundational textbook “Food Science,” died March 6 in Lexington, Kentucky. A professor emeritus of food science, Potter was 96.

  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy
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Field Note

Undergrads in the field: ‘Our winter on the Big Island’

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Undergrad Award winners

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COMM Updates - 5/10/2023
Conferences & Invited Lectures Associate Professor Jon Schuldt participated in “Experts on Camera,” a series of interviews with scientists hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which are made freely available to...
  • Department of Communication
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NY Sea Grant awarded $5.2M to fight waterway pollution
More than $5.2 million in funding will support New York Sea Grant (NYSG) efforts to carry out community action and research activities to reduce plastic and other types of pollution in the state’s coastal and river waterways. A cooperative...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York Sea Grant Institute
  • Sea Grant NY
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NY high schoolers take the lead in fighting food insecurity at Cornell event
Each year, a group of innovative young researchers convene to discuss challenges and propose solutions to issues of food security and climate change. This group, however, is not made up of visiting professors or postdocs but rather the future...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development

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Two from Cornell named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars

Two Cornell faculty members have been named Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in recognition of their potential to become leaders in their research fields and to create diverse and inclusive lab environments.

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
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Zuefle to Join Incoming Class of LeadNY
A senior extension specialist, Zuefle, is the first NYSIPM employee to be selected to the prestigious LeadNY program, according to NYSIPM director Alejandro Calixto. “LeadNY has a proud tradition of developing leaders in the food, agriculture...
  • New York State Integrated Pest Management
Misha Inniss-Thompson ’16, assistant research professor of psychology, gave the keynote address at the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ annual Honors Award Ceremony on May 5 in the Statler Hotel.

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Prioritize space to dream, OADI alumna tells diverse students

An enthusiastic audience of 100 Cornellians celebrated academic achievements and community at the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ annual Honors Award Ceremony on May 5.

  • Biology
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$4.3M grant to develop farm of the future tech

Cutting-edge, data-driven agricultural technologies and precision management strategies designed for the farm of the future will be developed, evaluated and demonstrated, thanks to a four-year, $4.3 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant.

  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Animal Science
Manure spreader in field

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New study finds way to reduce nitrogen loss from manure
A new laboratory study discovered that mixing acid whey with manure can decrease ammonia loss, increasing the amount of nitrogen available to plants from manure while reducing odor. Manure naturally loses ammonia through a reaction called...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
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PRO-DAIRY releases fact sheets on centralized anaerobic digestion systems
Considerations for central systems of dairy manure anaerobic digestion to renewable natural gas Newly released fact sheets by Angela George, Jason Oliver, and Lauren Ray, PRO-DAIRY Dairy Environmental Systems, gives an overview of three...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
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Cornellians named Schwarzman, Goldwater and Udall scholars

Three students and a recent graduate have won national scholarships that will prepare them for future global leadership and careers in STEM and public service. A fifth student received an honorable mention.

  • Department of Global Development
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Environment

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AI-CLIMATE institute aims to curb emissions, boost economy

Cornell is one of six universities receiving a total of $20 million over five years to form an institute aiming to create more climate-smart practices that will curb greenhouse gas emissions while boosting the agriculture and forestry industries...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Department of Communication