Cornell experts view coronavirus via multidisciplinary lenses

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The coronavirus pandemic has impacted lives around the world in numerous ways, and Cornell faculty members are sharing their expertise on everything from the virus itself to how it will affect local and global economies.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Medicine
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
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Minorities have broader view of environmental issues

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A new survey shows that members of marginalized communities have broader views on what qualifies as an environmental issue, including human-oriented factors, like drug use and unemployment.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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Faculty debate role of business in climate change

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Asked how it self-corrects for climate change, the businessman, now shoulder-deep in water, replies: “By producing more lifeboats!” Cathy Kling, Tisch University Professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, said...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Climate Change
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Radical Collaboration sees new hires, custom approaches

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Provost Michael Kotlikoff launched the initiative in fall 2016 across six cross-college discipline areas, each covered by a faculty task force: nanoscale science and microsystems engineering; genome biology; data science; sustainability...
  • Computational Biology
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
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Plant parasites cause lasting genetic changes

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When ground-dwelling parasites munch on the roots of plants, they don’t just damage the roots: They trigger chemical changes in the plant itself.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
  • Crops
  • Genetics
  • Entomology
  • Organisms
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Getting climate smart in Armenia

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“Armenia is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change,” said Allison M. Chatrchyan, senior research associate in the Department of Global Development. “Temperatures there are rising more than the global average, drought is...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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Students swap skills to seek solutions at digital ag hackathon

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“I’m cooperating with so many other majors that I have never come into touch with – it’s just so brand-new and refreshing,” said Jel Zhao ’20, an animal science major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), one of nearly 150...
  • Animal Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Digital Agriculture
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CCE educators help farmers meet new produce safety codes

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All farms that meet market and income requirements and that grow fruits and vegetables commonly eaten raw are now required to comply with a new set of regulations aimed at keeping fresh fruits and vegetables – everything from salad greens...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Lehmann, alum artificially age tech waste for new exhibit

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Artist Nathaniel Stern ’99 is posing these questions in dramatic ways with “ The World After Us: Imaging techno-aesthetic futures,” an exhibition through March 29 at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in Milwaukee. It includes installations, sculptures...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Plants
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A hunger fighter empowers farmers with NextGen Cassava

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“Cassava is our daily food in Uganda,” says Ozimati, Ph.D. ’18, now a plant breeder working for a national program in his country. “It’s what we grew up with and what we still love.” That food – and the livelihood of millions of farmers like...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Vegetables
  • Global Development
  • Disease
  • Plants
  • Crops
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Researchers pinpoint mechanism controlling cell protein traffic

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And while scientists have identified enzymes that remove a chemical modification known as lysine myristoylation – a “code” used for cell signaling – the enzymes that add such modifications have proved elusive. Knowledge of such modifications...
  • Biology
  • Microbiology

CALS-ILR leadership skills workshop is March 24-25

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The program is open to anyone, on or off campus, but is limited to the first 25 registrants. The workshop costs $850; payments must be received by March 10. Visit the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences website to register. The workshop is...
  • Food Science
  • Communication

Ornithology lab releases high-resolution migration maps

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The eBird program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology just released 500 animated maps spanning the entire Western Hemisphere. The maps show in fine detail where hundreds of species of migratory birds travel, and how their numbers vary with habitat...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment
  • Ecosystems

Einaudi Center awards eight faculty grants

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This year’s grants support four faculty research projects and four international conferences or workshops; the awards total more than $50,000. Launched in fall 2005, the Einaudi Center’s grants provide funding to seed faculty-led international...
  • Microbiology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Faculty forge archaeology partnership at Pompeii

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Caitlín Barrett, associate professor of classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Kathryn Gleason ’79, professor of landscape architecture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, have been collaborating since 2016 on the...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
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Improved CRISPR gene drive solves problems of old tech

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In theory, such a mechanism could be used to prevent malarial mosquitoes from transmitting disease, or possibly to wipe out an invasive species by disabling its ability to reproduce. Though scientists have had success proving the concept in the...
  • Computational Biology
  • Genetics
  • Entomology
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