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Three women in a kitchen wearing hairnets. Robin Kim on the left is measuring corn syrup, while Jordan Roth holds the measuring cup. Sue Kim in the background takes the temperature of a sugar water solution in a pot on a stove.

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Three years late, food science make-up lab is sweet as sugar

Among all the missed experiences of spring 2020, first-year food science majors lost one more: the opportunity to make candy in a lab. They created gummy worms and candy bars a thousand days later.

  • Food Science
  • Food
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  • Computational Biology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics

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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
  • Department of Global Development
  • Climate Change
From left, Ari Broad, Rachael Skye, Beth Rhoades, Scarlett Lee, Kara Rode Webber and Kara Fikrig standing on stairs in front of a Cornell building.

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Vaccination Conversations with Scientists, a group of more than 100 Cornell scientist volunteers educating the public about vaccines, is reporting success in shifting unvaccinated people’s beliefs about the shots.
  • Department of Entomology
  • Behavior
  • Health + Nutrition
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A computational tool will greatly benefit our understanding of the SARS-COV-2 virus and the development of drugs that block sites where the virus binds with human proteins.
  • Computational Biology
  • Biology
  • Genetics