Silver linings: Innovation, kits, tech animate a hybrid semester

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She needed alcohol to preserve the soft-bodied insects she’d collected near her home in Missouri, for her entomology class at Cornell. But it wasn’t included in her box of supplies, because alcohol is too flammable to ship. Her local drug store...
  • Entomology
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Dairy farm manure cover and flare off systems reduce odors and methane

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Thanks to Climate Resilient Farming grant funding from the New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets, New York Farmers are implementing innovative manure management techniques for environmental stewardship, farm viability, and the...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Dairy
  • Environment
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Using microbes, scientists aim to extract rare-earth elements

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Most of the world’s rare-earth elements – there are 17 on the periodic table – have been mined in China for the past quarter-century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But the mining and finishing processes there create toxic waste and...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Development
  • Biology
  • Planet
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  • Land
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CCE helps Buffalo get school food truck rolling

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With a splashy paint scheme designed by a local artist, the “Farm to School to You” food truck – developed with input from Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) – will visit sites throughout the city to bring free meals to families in need...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Summer interns discuss storytelling project in CCE podcast

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When the pandemic nixed the in-person component of their 4-H Rural Storytelling Project internship, Madison Albano ‘21, Wendy Ying Lau ’21 and Seth Bollinger ’21 put together a virtual program for kids across three New York state counties...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Communication

Wilkerson to discuss ‘Racial Moment of Truth’ in CCSS lecture

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Their moves north enabled the future winner of the Nobel Prize in literature to visit libraries, something she would have been forbidden to do had she grown up in the Jim Crow South. “By making the single decision to leave, her parents assured...
  • Department of Communication

Students’ summers saved with global virtual internships

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With late-breaking internship cancellations and research abroad no longer an option, students were left scrambling to make new plans for summer employment. That’s when Global Cornell stepped in. Drawing on worldwide connections, from faculty and...
  • Global Development Section
  • Development Sociology
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New Jeep ad supports Carl Sagan Institute initiative

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The company’s advertisement for its new Wrangler 4XE plug-in hybrid features the late Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan’s famous “Pale Blue Dot” monologue and images. And how it benefits CSI: For every view of the ad on Jeep’s YouTube channel, a...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Natural Resources
  • Climate Change
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Cornell unites science and policy to end hunger

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New farming methods and crops that perform better in a changing environment are essential to higher living standards, but obtaining these innovations are too often impossible for small-scale farmers. “Our interest is to have improved seed...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
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Grants fund community-engaged learning curricula

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The Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI) recently awarded Engaged Curriculum Grants to 19 teams of faculty and community partners that are developing community-engaged learning courses, majors and minors across the university. This year’s...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Community and Regional Development Institute
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Development Sociology
  • Department of Communication
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Sustainable Landscapes Trail offers virtual tour

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Cornell’s Sustainable Landscapes Trail now can be explored virtually, in a new narrated video tour from Cornell Botanic Gardens. The 16 sites on the trail promote open spaces, natural areas and landscapes with unique sustainability features that...
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  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
  • Environment
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Grant supports development of efficient offshore wind farms

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A new research project – led by Rebecca J. Barthelmie, professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Sara C. Pryor, professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – is...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Development
  • Energy
  • Land
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Ceres2030 offers path to ending world hunger within decade

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The results are synthesized in 10 new research papers – authored by 77 scientists, researchers and librarians in 23 countries – as part of Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger. The project is headquartered at Cornell, with partners...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Plants
  • Communication
  • Environment
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New grant fuels better nutrient management in vineyards

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The researchers – Terry Bates, senior research associate at the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory, and Justine Vanden Heuvel, professor of horticulture – are both from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Like most...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Food
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Center of Excellence carves path for ‘ag tech’ startup in the Finger Lakes

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Georgia-based software startup AgVoice — a 2019 Grow-NY finalist — announced plans this week to establish a headquarters office in New York’s Finger Lakes region, citing unparalleled resources offered by Cornell AgriTech and the Center of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Dairy
  • Applied Economics
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Faculty research university’s ties to Indigenous dispossession

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Through the “ Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project,” the faculty committee formed by the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is investigating Cornell’s...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Agriculture
  • Development
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources
  • Land
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CCMR JumpStart program funding three NYS companies

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Three New York state companies have been chosen to participate in the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) JumpStart Program, through which they will collaborate with Cornell faculty members to develop and improve their products. The...
  • Food Science
  • Food
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CALS Department of Natural Resources announces new name

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To reflect a broadened scope of research and scholarship, the Department of Natural Resources in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell CALS) has adopted a new name: the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. The...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Water
  • Landscape
  • Natural Resources
  • Ecosystems
  • Climate Change
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