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A company started by a Cornell food scientist turns bug-based proteins into a wonder ingredient that can be used in all kinds of culinary staples, from a meat replacement in summer barbecue to a cooking alternative to eggs or butter in your next batch of cookies. Lee Cadesky, M.S. ‘15 envisions his product as a key fixture in a future food landscape where insects offer a more sustainable alternative to beef and better flavor than plant-based proteins like tofu. Learn more about his ideas here: http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Upd…/Dec15/EU.Cfu.Foods.html 

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Kayden Nasworthy, a graduate student at Cornell University, holding a bag of collected mysids. A new New York Sea Grant-funded research project is evaluating long-term trends in mysid shrimp populations in Lake Ontario.

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Cornell University’s James Watkins and Kade Keranen are leading a nearly $240,000 study to examine the abundance of mysid, small, shrimp-like crustaceans that are critical links in Lake Ontario’s aquatic food web.

  • Biological Field Station
  • Sea Grant NY
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
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Researchers studying ribosomes, AI and quantum computing are among 13 early-career professors from Cornell who’ve recently been awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science