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Students placed price tags on about 80 trees April 18 to demonstrate the dollar value of the ecosystem services the trees provide, such as energy savings and intercepting storm water runoff.
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Two Cornell researchers are leading a collaboration that aims to benefit both coffee farmers in Colombia and the country's biodiverse bird population.

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Portraits of researchers and educators on their turf, from the rat burrows of city parks to the furrows of a rooftop farm in Brooklyn.

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Honeybees encounter high danger due to lingering and wandering pesticides, according to an analysis of the bee's own food, according to Cornell research in Nature Scientific Reports, April 19.
  • Department of Entomology
  • Agriculture
  • Entomology
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Cornell faculty and graduate students welcomed girls in grades 7-9 to campus April 15 to learn about STEM and discover role models in the fields of science and math.
Nina Bassuk

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From engineering soil for street trees to diversifying the urban forest, insights from Nina Bassuk on making horticulture thrive in cities.

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The Institute for the Social Sciences' Small Grants Program is funding a series of critical social science projects and a conference with its spring 2017 awards.

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A new exhibit at Mann Library aims to introduce Cornellians to the early 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, whose impact on botany and horticulture was enormous, and runs through June.

Rich Stedman poses in classroom

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Richard Stedman explores our sense of place in the age of migration, global mobility, and urbanization.
Sara Perl Egendorf standing next to pile of soil

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Research and recommendations from the Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities project protects urban gardeners from residual soil contaminants.
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Not everyone can make it to the Big Leagues, but Kevin Kniffin reveals five lessons everyone can learn from sports.
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Pigeons, crows, sparrows, starlings and killdeer: These city-dwelling species rank low in the pecking order but have hidden talents and creature culture worthy of a second glance.

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Vice President Joe Biden, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January, will give the keynote address at this year's Senior Convocation, during Cornell's 149th Commencement Weekend.

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From preventing chronic sleep disruption to supporting people with bipolar disorder, researchers are leveraging smartphone technology for health and well-being.
Professor Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

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Rapid urbanization and a young population is the challenge of a century.

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Cornell projects with a focus on apples, dairy, field crops, grapes, and vegetables received $1.1 million in funding from the New York Farm Viability Institute.

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Faculty will share ideas on climate change April 21-23 at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit, while students ascend Capitol Hill on April 21, and then walk in the national Science March on April 22.

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Mark Sellew ’78 and Lisa Preger Sellew ’79, MBA ’82, have established the Sellew Family Excellence-in-Mentoring Graduate Fellowship to support scholars and mentors in the School of Integrative Plant Science.

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Cornell doctoral students will collaborate with community partners from Ithaca to India on research projects supported by 2017 Engaged Graduate Student Grants.

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Mary X. Mitchell, a historian of science and technology and a postdoctoral fellow, describes how a former nuclear test site became a proving ground for a new legal definition of environmental impact.