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How Grapevines Respond to Water Stress Water relations are a key factor in grapevine growth and development. Plants take up water to maintain cell turgor, to make and expand new tissues, to provide evaporative cooling, and to facilitate gas...

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...

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Fifteen years after earning her Cornell University diploma, Sharon Poczter was recognized by her classmates for her outstanding professional and societal contributions. Poczter, now an assistant professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of...
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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...

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Some good news for two recent Cornell Food Science graduates is bad news for food-borne pathogens everywhere. Samantha VanWees ’16 and Genevieve Sullivan ’16 earned first and second place at the annual Institute of Food Technologists’...

A man, Bernie Sanders, stands at a podium

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...
Bernie Sanders stands at a podium

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...
A man, Donal Trump, speaks at a podium

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...
A man, Ted Cruz, speaks into a microphone

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...
A painting of a glass of wine, peeled lemon, crab and bread on a table

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Our obsession with looking at tasty, exotic food, it turns out, is not just a social media fad. The abundance of #foodporn posts popular on Instagram may signify a longstanding fascination with edible decadence that would have been as familiar...
Grapes on a grapevine

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Cornell researchers have advice for vineyard managers in cool and humid climates like the Northeast: cover up. Maintaining bare soil beneath vines has long been accepted management practice to stifle competition from other vegetation, preserving...
A graphic of a the Twitter logo, a bird, made up of smaller graphics related to the 2016 election.

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...
A stink bug and another on a leaf

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Originally from Asia, brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) was first detected in Pennsylvania in 1990 and spread to most states in the US. It is abundant in the mid-Atlantic states, with increasing numbers in NY State. BMSB has a very large host...
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If two words could sum up Toni DiTommaso’s qualities as professor of weed science at Cornell University, “unbridled enthusiasm” — words from a nomination letter — fit the bill. Yet it’s not just his innovative Integrated Pest Management (IPM)...

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Students at Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station conduct research that is varied and far-reaching. On June 23 in Jordan Hall, a few of those postdoctoral fellows and graduate students gave a glimpse into their impressive...

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Gilbert Stoewsand, a Cornell food scientist who helped to rescue New York’s fledgling wine industry in the early 1970s by debunking shoddy science and malicious rumors that attributed health risks to drinking wine made from hybrid grapes, died...
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What makes flowers on a plant almost identical, or internal organs remarkably reproducible? A study of sepals in Arabidopsis plants published in the July 11 issue of the journal Developmental Cellhas revealed the mystery of how such uniformity...
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Professor emeritus of development sociology Joseph Mayone Stycos, who taught at Cornell for 43 years, died June 24 at Kendal at Ithaca. He was 89. An early pioneer in population studies, Stycos was an expert in the study of population and...

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As New York’s dairy farms get larger and store more manure – rather than spread it – methane emissions have doubled in the last two decades. To reduce this potent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, Cornell researchers advocate an economical...