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To promote exercise, planners must look beyond cities

Streets and neighborhoods that are friendlier to walkers and bikers increase physical activity but have limited benefit outside urban centers, Cornell research finds.

  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
  • Food

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Northeastern Dairy Product Innovation Competition launches

The inaugural Northeastern Dairy Product Innovation Competition is now accepting applications, providing an opportunity for producers of value-added dairy products to bring their innovations to market.

  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
  • Dairy
Cross-section of chicken intestine with cells that may be affected by food nanoparticles.

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Food coloring, anti-caking nanoparticles may affect human gut

Metal oxide nanoparticles – commonly used as food coloring and anti-caking agents in commercial ingredients – may damage parts of the human intestine, say Cornell and Binghamton University scientists.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Food Science
  • Health + Nutrition
Debbie Cherney

Spotlight

Debbie Cherney’s long-lasting impact in the field of Animal Science
A familiar face around Frank B. Morrison Hall, students are likely to know Debbie Cherney in one of the many courses she teaches in Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science. Cherney introduced the Animal Welfare course to the department and is...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Environment
Enjoying nature close to home was associated with the greatest sense of well-being during the pandemic.

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Nature near home associated with well-being during COVID

A new study from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology found which kind of nature experiences were associated with a greater sense of well-being during the COVID pandemic.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Nature
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Speaker, Dr. Shannon Monnat

Seminar

U.S. Rural Population Health in the Context of Drug Overdoses, COVID-19, and Longer-Term Mortality Trends
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series The U.S. rural mortality penalty is wide and growing. This talk will present an overview of trends in rural and urban mortality rates since 1990, identify where rates have increased...
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Global Development
  • Development
Speaker, Shakuntala Thilsted

Seminar

Transforming Food Systems: Aquatic Foods for Nourishing People and Planet
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Global hunger and malnutrition rates have been increasing, exacerbated by disruptions, including climate change, conflicts and COVID-19. Over the past three years, these disruptions...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
Speaker, Jesus Orozco

Seminar

Fighting Malnutrition and Poor Residue Management with the Use of a Wonderful Insect: Hermetia illucens (L.)
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Honduras is one of the five Latin-American countries with the highest malnutrition rate in Latin America. In some rural towns, more than half of the children from 6-60 months are below...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Development
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