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  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Awards Congrats to Nathan Matias, who received the Rise25 Award from the Mozilla Foundation. The award recognizes visionaries reshaping the digital future. Conference Participation Nathan Matias is organizing a panel for the Computer-Supported...
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President Martha E. Pollack announced the recipients of the 2023 Stephen H. Weiss Teaching Awards, which honor faculty members who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Global Development
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Many obstacles prevent women from participating as seed entrepreneurs in the commercialized formal seed system delivery models, despite the fact that they are essential to informal seed exchanges, crop diversity maintenance, production...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development

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Students were tasked with addressing one of four challenges: creating new dairy products, coming up with more efficient food manufacturing processes, lessening the problem of food waste or creating products to increase knowledge and the use of...

  • CIFS-IPP
  • Food Science
  • Food
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A new paper shows that promised yield increases at a global scale from increasing organic carbon in soils would be negligible with current technologies and optimal management practices.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Soil
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  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Cornell researchers are partnering on the newly announced Feed the Future Climate Resilient Cereals Innovation Lab (CRCIL), providing plant breeding expertise and powerful computational tools to increase the accessibility of cereal crops for...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Food
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Researchers from the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management have developed a new method for measuring food insecurity, which for millions of people in the U.S. is more than just an abstract concept.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food
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Researchers at Cornell have discovered a new grape downy mildew resistance gene – giving the wine and grape industry a powerful new tool to combat this devastating disease.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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On Sat., Oct. 9, over two hundred fiber enthusiasts – knitters, crocheters, spinners weavers, and felters, descended on the Chemung County Fairgrounds for the Fall Festival and Indie Dyer’s Spectrum Fiber Fest. The event, a partnership between...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Established as a dairy farm in 1957, the Osterhoudt family of Genoa, New York, now operates a crop and custom harvest operation. The farm owners, Mark Osterhoudt and his family, and their certified crop adviser and on-farm agronomist Andy Miller...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
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Ecologist, MacArthur “genius grant” winner and bestselling author Robin Wall Kimmerer, who has written about Indigenous people’s relationship with the land, will visit campus on Nov. 1

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Department of Global Development
  • Environment
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Hydrogen sulfide is a highly toxic gas that can be released from the breakdown of manure in pits, tanks, and storages. It is heavier than air and can settle into low spots and accumulate in confined spaces. High concentrations can also be...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
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When wildfires draped smoke over New York this summer, nearly half of its counties lacked data on air quality. Cornell has led an effort to install sensors in places where there were none.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Health + Nutrition
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Adding crushed volcanic rock to cropland could play a key role in removing carbon from the air. In a field study, scientists at the University of California, Davis, and Cornell University found the technology stored carbon in the soil even during an extreme drought in California. The study was published in the journal Environmental Research Communications.
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
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Conference Papers Associate Professor Dawn Schrader is delivering 3 papers at the Association for Moral Education annual conference. “Four Case Studies of Ethics in Political Revolutions: Moral Education and the Ethical and Epistemological...
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SLF will lay eggs on any solid surface, including trees, tires—even lawn furniture. Scrape the eggs by putting them in doubled sealable bags, alcohol or hand sanitizer or by smashing or burning them. Fewer eggs this winter mean fewer SLF next...
  • New York State Integrated Pest Management
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Andrew Turner ’88, M.P.S. ’93, has been appointed director of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) and associate dean for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the College of Human Ecology (CHE).

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Energy
  • Food
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The fifth annual Grow-NY Summit will convene food and ag startups and industry players Nov. 14-15 at the Holiday Inn Binghamton Downtown, spotlighting the innovative technologies being developed locally and their impact that spans beyond the...

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Agriculture
  • Food