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At a stakeholder engagement meeting April 12 hosted by the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), Ronnie Coffman took the helm as chairman of WACCI’s International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB), reinforcing the organization's...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
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Events Join us for COMMColloquium Friday, April 19, at 1:00 pm in 160 Mann Library Building. Visiting Associate Professor Bolin Cao (Shenzhen University) will present “ Understanding Human-Chatbot Interaction: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and...
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New climate-controlled animal respiration stalls in CALS – the only ones currently operating in the U.S. – will allow researchers to measure, verify and monitor methane and other gas emissions from cows.

  • Animal Science
  • Climate Change
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Cornell food scientists are working with wineries, manufacturers and New York state to eliminate the “off” aroma in some canned wines by subtly altering the product’s formulation and packaging.

  • Food Science
Yu Jiang and graduate student usimg fluorescence imaging to help identify weeds among plants

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  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Barriers to adopting solar power persist among rural communities in Ethiopia, where solar panels can promote health and education.

  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
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Soil carbon usually refers only to the organic matter component of soils, known as soil organic carbon (SOC). However, soil carbon also has an inorganic component, known as soil inorganic carbon (SIC). Solid SIC, often calcium carbonate, tends to accumulate more in arid regions with infertile soils, which has led many to believe it is not important. In a study published in Science, researchers led by Prof. HUANG Yuanyuan from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Prof. ZHANG Ganlin from the Institute of Soil Science of CAS, together with collaborators, have quantified the global store of SIC, challenging this long-held view.
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Soil
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Methane is one of the greenhouse gasses responsible for climate change, and it is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a driver of global warming. At the same time, 14.5% of methane emissions each year come from ruminants such as cows...
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There is much confusion about the potential for glyphosate (the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup®) to cause adverse health effects, including cancer.—Dan Wixted Dan Wixted of NYSIPM’s Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP) joined...
  • New York State Integrated Pest Management
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  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Cornell University’s Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) is helping farmers evaluate their nutrient use through the Cornell whole-farm nutrient mass balance (NMB) tool . This project, led by NMSP Research Associate Olivia Godber , is...
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy
  • Crops
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Conferences Associate Professor Dawn Schrader is organizing and chairing a conference session for the annual American Association for Educational Research conference. She will chair the Moral Development and Education Special Interest Group’s...
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From April 10-12, ice cream aficionados will get several opportunities to taste and vote on their favorite of three new student-developed flavors, crafted to help celebrate “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”

  • Food Science
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  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Tracy Luckow ’99 will share the peaks and valleys of her entrepreneurial journey on April 12 at Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s Celebration, a two-day conference held every spring that brings together students, alumni, faculty, staff and community...

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Food Science
Man with harvested Bt eggplant in Bangladesh

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  • Department of Entomology
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Indigenous students in STEM are creating community and working to increase representation and visibility – all while bringing valuable cultural insights and a community-focus to their academic work.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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A venture to digitize vertebrate museum collections and make them freely available online for anyone to access has created 3D CT scans of some 13,000 specimens.

  • Fish
  • Organisms