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Ed Mabaya named director of Cornell’s Humphrey Program

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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LeadNY Announces New Class of Food, Ag and Natural Resources Leaders
LeadNY prepares adult professionals for leadership roles through seminars, workshops, and field travel experiences both in and out of New York State, including a study trip. The second year of the program focuses on national and international...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Scientists resurrect ancient enzymes to improve photosynthesis
A Cornell study describes a breakthrough in the quest to improve photosynthesis in certain crops, a step toward adapting plants to rapid climate changes and increasing yields to feed a projected 9 billion people by 2050.
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Genetics
  • Plants
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Fisheries research continues on Oneida Lake
On April 12, 2022, Cornell Field Station staff completed the marking portion of the 2022 Oneida Lake walleye mark-recapture population estimate. Over 21,000 adult walleye were marked with a fin clip and released back into the lake. Later in the...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Natural Resources
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Greening food preservation nourishes the environment
As consumers want fewer food preservatives and less plastic waste, Cornell scientists have created a bioderived polymer that helps salad dressings and beverages last longer in the fridge.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Food Science
  • Environment
students participating in dairy discovery

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Dairy Discovery: Inspiring the next generation of dairy leaders
Cornell PRO-DAIRY recently hosted Dairy Discovery, an interactive day of workshops for high school students interested in exploring careers in the dairy industry. After two years of online-only events, students were able to attend in-person...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science

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Cornell's Humphrey program director Peter Gregory to retire

Peter Gregory, who for more than a decade supported cadres of international leaders through Cornell’s Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, plans to retire June 30 from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences where he has served as a noted educator, researcher and administrator since 2001.

  • Global Development Section
Brianna and cow

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Bouchet Honor Society inductee makes her mark in Animal Science
Brianna Tate is a Ph.D. candidate studying in the McFadden Lab housed in the Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science. Over the past four years Tate’s research has looked at ways to benefit dairy calf immunity to better survival and impact health later in life. Tate was recently inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the prestigious Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Student Honor Society in recognition of her outstanding work as a scientist as well as a leader in the Cornell and scientific communities.
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
A group of students inspects an aquaponic system.

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NY high schoolers tackle food security issues at Cornell event

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Animal Science
  • Department of Entomology
Nina Bassuk

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Reaping the benefits of city trees
Nina Bassuk has dedicated her career helping trees thrive in tough urban landscapes
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

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Johan Swinnen to give first Global Development Distinguished Speaker talk

Global food systems expert Johan Swinnen, Ph.D. ’92, will explore the lessons learned and the steps needed to prevent a hunger catastrophe in the first talk of a new speaker series dedicated to confronting the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change
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Meet our faculty: Martin Graef
Academic focus: Cellular homeostasis and aging Research summary: I study how cells maintain their homeostasis and function under diverse stresses. Cells have evolved the process of autophagy, which allows them to degrade parts of themselves and...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
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Meet our faculty: Marian Schmidt
Academic focus: Ecology, evolution and genomics of aquatic microbial communities Research summary: My lab studies the microbial inhabitants of aquatic ecosystems through a combination of field, molecular and computational approaches. Despite...
  • Microbiology
  • Biology
  • Biodiversity
Jason Londo and his family

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Meet our faculty: Jason Londo
Academic focus: Fruit crop physiology and climate adaptation Research summary: I study how environmental stresses such as temperature, water availability and soil chemistry impact apple and grapevine physiological performance. The key to climate...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
Yu Jiang and Ph.D. student Ertai Liu stand with an agricultural robot in a grape vineyard

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Meet our faculty: Yu Jiang
Academic focus: Multimodal sensing, agricultural robotics and artificial intelligence in agriculture Research summary: I study systems engineering and digital solutions to enhancing the productivity, quality, sustainability and resilience of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

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Meet our new faculty - spring 2022

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
bull semen

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Easy test can see if breeding bulls have the right stuff
Forget sending bull semen out for complicated laboratory tests to learn whether the agricultural animal is virile. Cornell scientists have developed a faster, easier microfluidics method.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
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NY Stewards trained to work on local climate change projects
Specialists at Cornell University and New York Sea Grant (NYSG) have established a program of stewards who are being trained to help their communities mitigate the causes of, and adapt to become more resilient to climate change. “Climate change...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York Sea Grant Institute
  • Climate Change
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$6.75M EPA grant to fund Great Lakes food web monitoring
Cornell received the grant to continue efforts to monitor and research the lower part of the food web, particularly zooplankton like Mysis and benthic invertebrates.
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Water
  • Ecosystems
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Deserts ‘breathe’ water vapor, study shows
A Cornell-designed probe shows how water vapor penetrates powders and grains – a finding that could have wide-ranging applications in pharmaceutical research, agriculture and food processing, and planetary exploration.
  • Microbiology
  • Environment
  • Nature