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Scott professorship to focus on digital ag, transdisciplinary research

Professor Emeritus Norman Scott and his wife, Sharon, have endowed a professorship that will support transdisciplinary, innovative research and teaching in food, agriculture and life sciences.

  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Agriculture
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Field Note

Lorelei Meidenbauer ’22: A vision for justice with affordable housing
Meet Lorelei Meidenbauer ’22, whose passion for affordable housing and social justice in the U.S. is helping create a flourishing world. From supporting rural schools in New York State through grant writing to biking across the country with Bike...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell’s UN climate author warns of ‘rapidly closing window’
In a global cautionary tale, the UN’s IPCC has a new climate change report written by Cornell’s Rachel Bezner Kerr and 270 others, to pull our planet from dire environmental ruin.
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
A view of the 3D model of Red Hook Farm in Brooklyn, New York, featuring a processing shed and high tunnels for vegetable production

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Virtual reality farm tour expands access to urban agriculture
Cornell researchers have created the most advanced virtual reality urban farm tour ever made, an online learning experience that promises to transport urban and rural farmers to New York City’s Red Hook Farms without ever leaving home.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

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A.D. White professors’ spring 2022 visits announced

  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Soil

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Ukrainian Cornellians look homeward with anxiety, concern

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Oliva Godber

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Olivia Godber: Measuring Carbon Footprints for Dairy Farms
Olivia Godber is a postdoctoral research associate, leading the Dairy Sustainability Key Indicators Project in Cornell CALS Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP). Tasked with the mission to examine dairy farms’ environmental footprints...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
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GREAT research points way towards more inclusive agricultural systems
The Beijing Declaration in 1995 set the global development agenda for gender equality across sectors, including agriculture. Since then, gender training has been a central approach for gender integration in agricultural development. Yet in the...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Poultry Producers: Be on the Lookout for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Since the beginning of 2022, over 450 cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza have been identified in U.S. wild bird populations. Cases in backyard and commercial poultry flocks are on the rise, and it’s important now more than ever to keep...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
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Milkweed species proves beneficial for monarch conservation
Researchers have identified a species of milkweed that holds promise for planting on roadsides to improve conservation habitat for migrating monarch butterflies.
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Entomology
  • Pollinators
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Moving from theory to practice: Deepening gender responsive agricultural research skills of NARs in Sub-Saharan Africa
While training courses remain a central focus to the Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) program, towards the end of 2021 GREAT training courses were complemented by a call for research proposals for...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Field biology changes student perspectives
Instructors Marc Goebel and Kira Treibergs work to ensure that students in Introductory Field Biology (NTRES 2100) have a collaborative learning experience. Student teams build confidence through collaborating on field research and learning to read the landscape.
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
  • Nature
Doctoral student Yi Sang, left, and Olivia Pietz ’22 prepare water samples at the Ithaca City reservoir, as Professor Matt Reid observes the work

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Students’ tool forecasts manganese in Ithaca water supply
To help the Ithaca Water Treatment Plant, engineering students have created a way to help predict concentrations of manganese in the city’s reservoir.
  • Water
  • Natural Resources
  • Health + Nutrition
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Alumnus honors parents with scholarship in their name
The Donna and Dennis Lowe Scholarship will support CALS undergraduates with financial need as part of the university’s To Do the Greatest Good capital campaign.
  • Biology
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AI enables strategic hydropower planning across Amazon basin
Biologist Alex Flecker and computer scientist Carla Gomes co-led a project that employed AI and around 40 researchers in an attempt to determine optimal placement of around 350 hydropower dams in the Amazon river basin.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
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Global Development Ph.D. project explores renewable energy, political upheaval
In the summer of 2021, a convergence of political, financial, and infrastructural crises in Lebanon led to severe fuel shortages. Without the diesel necessary to run both the state’s power plants and private backup generators, the country was...
  • Global Development Section
  • Energy
  • Global Development
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea

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Climate and agricultural economist Ariel Ortiz-Bobea will advise USDA on research priorities
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea says there is no greater threat to our food supply than climate change. He has been appointed to a USDA advisory panel where he will get to shape policy that leads to solutions.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change

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Cornell, startup receive $7M for novel clean energy tech

Cornell researchers and a startup have received more than $7 million in federal grants to advance novel clean energy research that includes wirelessly charging electric vehicles, low-carbon jet fuel and construction materials made from waste.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Energy
  • Environment
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Field Note

NY VT Corn Silage Program enhances purchasing power for farmers
Joe Lawrence is the Dairy Forage System Specialist for Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science PRO-DAIRY. Here he provides insight into the research and extension work accomplished by PRO-DAIRY to evaluate the quality of feeds available on the market for dairy farmers.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science

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Seminar series critiques structural inequalities of international development

In its inaugural year, the Critical Development Studies seminar series opens a space for scholars and students to analyze international development practices and their impacts on social well-being, food systems and environmental justice. Housed...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development