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Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo hands the first place award in the Grow-NY Youth Competition to Arjun Bindra

News

On November 14 and 15, 10 innovative start-up businesses from across New York state pitched their agri-business ideas in front of a panel of entrepreneurial, agricultural and extension experts at the Holiday Inn in Binghamton for a chance to win...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Field Note

Edlin Choi was tired of seeing animal bones, fat and other byproducts of the meat industry go to waste. His solution? Korean bone broth.
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Spotlight

Jasdeep Singh recently joined the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) , a program within the animal science department, as a postdoctoral fellow. Since coming to Cornell, he has focused on facilitating Cornell University’s part in the Dairy...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
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News

Lakes are among the most vital natural resources on Earth. While they hold a small percentage of the planet’s overall water supply, they provide most of the fresh water people depend on daily. A new five-year, $2.5 million grant from the...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change

News

Strogatz’s and Lewis’ work was selected by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from among 500 entries published or aired in 2023.

  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
A student performs an experiment on a plant in a greenhouse

News

Kohl Perry ’26 received honors in the undergraduate research poster competition organized by the Tuskegee University Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture, at the 81 st Professional Agricultural Workers Conference (PAWC)...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Joshua Manser in front of plants in a greenhouse

News

Josh Manser, a 15-year employee of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES), has been promoted to supervisor of the Kenneth Post Laboratory greenhouses on Tower Road. The complex of greenhouses and plant growth...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
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News

Joseph Novak, professor emeritus of education and biological sciences, died Sept. 22. He was 92.

A row of lit candles in a black room.

News

M.A. “Andy” Rao, known as one of the top food scientists in the U.S. and the world during a distinguished career that included more than three decades at Cornell AgriTech, died in July 2022 in Leesburg, Va. He was 85.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
  • Food Science
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Report

In 2023, the corn silage hybrid evaluation program received 75 entries from 17 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
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Group conducts fieldwork in Ghana

News

Gretchen Hanson , MPS ‘23 came to Cornell hoping to build on her international development implementation experience in agriculture and education. When the opportunity arose to spend a summer in Ghana, she did just that. With support from the...
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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News

The Polson Institute for Global Development welcomed urban geographer Nik Heynen as its inaugural Distinguished Speaker in the Fall 2023 semester. A Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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News

Cold snaps and heat waves associated with climate change lead to more deadly nest failures for songbirds, new Cornell research has found.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
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News

New York state agencies are encouraging hunters to choose non-lead ammunition to benefit both wild animals and humans, with help from Cornell communication and wildlife experts.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Department of Communication
  • Animals
COMM UPDATES from the Department of Communication

News

Conference Participation Graduate student Beatrys Rodrigues co-authored/presented the paper “ELSI for AI? Emerging Visions of Governing AI in US Institutions” at the Society for the Social Studies of Science conference. Since the launch of the...
A man and a woman talk on a stage at a red table with "global cornell" and "freedom of expression" written on the wall behind them.

News

For its work supporting international scholars whose work puts them at risk in their home countries, Cornell has been awarded the Institute of International Education’s Centennial Medal. It was presented to Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff on Oct...

  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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News

Twenty-five faculty and academic staff from nine Cornell colleges and units are Engaged Faculty Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year, with projects dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Communication
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News

Awards, conference participation, and Halloween pictures!
equipment used to harvest corn silage

Report

This fact sheet authored by Joe Lawrence and Allison Kerwin was shared in a November PRO-DAIRY e-Leader Forage Systems alert, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. The 2023 growing season...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
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News

North American song sparrows may be more resilient to climate change thanks to a remarkable adaptation: a stunning range of body sizes found throughout the bird’s westernmost range.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Climate Change