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The Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases, led by Cornell, has received a five-year, $8.7 million award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to train and educate vector-borne disease professionals.

  • Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
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Field Note

Meet Taryn Chung '26 , a New York City native, immersing herself in the realm of food systems research with Cornell's Food Systems & Global Change research group within the Department of Global Development. Taryn is a Laidlaw Scholar majoring in...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
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News

Current methods can vastly overestimate the rates that malaria parasites are multiplying in an infected person’s blood, which has important implications for determining how harmful they could be to a host, according to a new report.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Disease
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In a rural part of upstate New York, students with access to school-based health centers received more medical care and missed less school, Cornell researchers found.

  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Cornell expands wildfire smoke sensor network for New York

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
Speaker, Dr. Shannon Monnat

Seminar

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

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