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Academic focus: Forest governance and livelihoods, community-based natural resource management, social-ecological systems, conservation social science, environmental justice Research summary: I lead the Forests, Livelihoods, Institutions and...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Academic focus: Regulation and function of transposable elements, small RNA biology, chromatin biology Research summary: My research focuses on how transposons – genetic elements that are able to jump around and propagate in our genome and...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
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Academic focus: Sustainability of livestock and food production systems Research summary: I study the role of animals in sustainable food systems at the farm, ranch, region, landscape and supply chain scale. My lab combines modeling and field...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
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Academic focus: Seed pathology, integrated pest management and seed microbiomes Research summary: My research bridges science and practice in crop production, with a focus on seed germination, disease diagnostics and management, seed microbiome...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
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Academic focus: Causality and robustness in statistics and data science Research summary: I study how we can make statistical and machine learning methods more reliable for understanding cause-and-effect relationships in the real world. My work...
  • Statistics and Data Science
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Academic focus: Evolutionary ecology Research summary: Our research group seeks to understand the interplay between evolutionary processes and ecological patterns. We mainly work with plants and insects but dabble in microbes, too. Our interests...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Academic focus: Plant microbiomes Research summary: Plants coexist with dynamic and complex microbial communities. I study how host genetics and environmental stressors collectively influence microbiome composition and function. By studying crop...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
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Academic focus: Vegetable physiology and climate resilience Research summary: I conduct research in vegetable physiology with a strong focus on enhancing climate resilience. My research centers on understanding how environmental stressors such...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Crops
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Academic focus: Bacterial signal transduction and biofilm formation Research summary: I study how a group of critically understudied bacteria, non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), produce biofilms. Biofilms occur when bacteria attach to surfaces...
  • Microbiology
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Jake Zajkowski/Provided Frank Rossi, associate professor of horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, leads Long Island golf course superintendents on a walk and talk event at Bethpage, just weeks before the 2025 Ryder Cup.

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A 25-year partnership between Cornell researchers and New York State Parks culminates at the 2025 Ryder Cup, the most sustainable professional golf tournament to date.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Horticulture
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  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
The 2025 Postdoc Achievement Award recipients

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Nine postdoctoral scholars were honored with Postdoc Achievement Awards as part of Cornell’s participation in National Postdoc Appreciation Week. The awards recognize excellence in community engagement, leadership and mentoring.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Field Note

Sustainability in turfgrass science can be measured through input efficiency, reduced labor, lower emissions, biological pest control, environmental protection and even the social benefit of keeping recreational greenspaces open to the public...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture
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Report

Sustainable farms need an effective workforce led by managers with strong leadership skills. We developed an intensive supervisory development program composed of online learning that leads to a certificate.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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The ovary is a mystery of destruction and creation, unlike any other organ. Every time ovulation occurs, the vascular bed of blood vessels on the surface of the ovary dries up, causing cells to die and the follicle tissue there to degrade...
  • Animal Science
  • Biology
  • Genetics
Doctoral student Peter Gracey works in the Leslie J. Herzog ’77 and Jacqueline Beckley Food Innovation Lab.

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Mmm, what's in these meatballs? A secret ingredient that would improve human health as well as apple producers' bottom line.

  • Cornell Food Venture Center
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Cornell Atkinson, The Nature Conservancy, Clean Air Task Force and Environmental Defense Fund have awarded grants to five research projects that aim to improve sustainability in the dairy industry.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy
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For Kieri Keys ’28, it was love at first sight. Before beginning her freshman year at Cornell, Keys attended the Outdoor Odyssey pre-orientation program, which included a visit to the Dilmun Hill Student Farm. “I was immediately obsessed with it...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Agriculture
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Scott Emr, the Samuel C. and Nancy M. Fleming Professor Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, has won the World Laureate Association Prize, one of the world’s highest...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics