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A groundskeeper for the University of Rwanda picks day lily greens at a training in August.

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Two alums are leading an effort to give Rwandan farmers the tools to grow and sell grains - with the ultimate goal of lifting communities out of poverty and improving food security across East Africa.

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
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Farm Business Management team adds two new members Lainey Koval (pictured left) has been working part-time with PRO-DAIRY, starting during her senior year at Cornell, and is now on staff full-time. She will provide administrative support for the...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Researchers at the World Food Prize

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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Planet
Grow NY audience watches a panel of youth on stage

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Manfred Lim, a student from Jericho High School in Nassau County, New York, clinched first place and a $3,000 cash prize at the fourth annual Grow-NY Youth Competition, held Nov. 6 in Ithaca, New York. The 2024 Grow-NY Youth Competition, part of...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Beth McGinty, chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Colleen Barry, founding dean of the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, celebrate the Cornell Health Policy Center's launch during an event Nov. 15 at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. Photo by Sudeepa Singh.

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Weill Cornell Medicine and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy have established the Cornell Health Policy Center to serve as the locus for health policy impact, research and training across Cornell.

  • Department of Communication
  • Policy Analysis and Management
  • Communication
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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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In 2024, the corn silage hybrid evaluation program received 60 entries from 13 seed brands. Hybrid evaluation at multiple environments helps in decision making and expands the reach of this type of data to more farmers. Cornell, UVM, and seed...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • PRO-DAIRY
Gracekelly Fulton '24, co-lead of the Sustainable Landscapes team, prepares to plant a wild plum tree outside Onondaga Nation School. Photo by Sreang Hok.

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The garden - a collaboration between Onondaga Nation and Cornell Botanic Gardens - will enable Onondaga Nation School to incorporate more lessons from and about their own culture.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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The 75th European Association for Animal Production meeting took place in early September this year in Florence, Italy. Olivia Godber, research associate for Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP), and Ananda Fontoura...
  • Animal Science
  • Climate Change
  • Dairy
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Briefings, Conference Presentations, Panels & Workshops Associate Professor Brooke Duffy delivered two panel talks at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference. In “From CareerTok to #Quietquitting: Social Media Communication...
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Every summer a group of undergrad students arrive at the Cornell Biological Field Station to start their 10-week internship. This summer, James Hoehner was selected by the Cornell Cooperative Extension for the Oneida Lake Fisheries and Aquatic...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York Sea Grant Institute
Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute, associate professor of astronomy and author of “Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos,” said the thousands of exoplanets detected to date suggest there are “billions and billions” of possibilities for life beyond Earth. Photo by Sreang Hok.

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In person and online Nov. 9, thousands attended an interdisciplinary program of research presentations and music celebrated Carl Sagan’s legacy on what would have been his 90th birthday.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Department of Communication
  • Biology
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence wouldn’t be possible without the statistical models that underpin their analytic capabilities. A Cornell statistician and his colleague have developed a revolutionary new method to analyze complex...
  • Statistics and Data Science
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Report

Global Development Impact Brief #4 The Global Development Impact Brief series is designed to highlight Global Development’s work across disciplines, issues, and geographies in order to give readers insights into how we are advancing development...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development

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A Cornell-led team will use a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a “microbe-mineral atlas,” a catalog of microorganisms and how they interact with minerals, key for mining critical metals used for generating sustainable...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Three individuals on a farm

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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Most of the land use for watersheds in the Finger Lakes is farmland. We enjoy this working landscape for the beauty, utility, habitat, recreation and food it provides us all. However, this also means that agriculture can be a significant source...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Judson Reid

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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Briefings, Conference Presentations & Workshops Leaders of the Citizens and Technology Lab (CAT Lab) held a briefing in Albany, NY, for state agency and legislative staff on the subject of “Independent Evaluation of Technology Policy.”...