Center for Social Sciences names 2020-21 faculty fellows

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The center’s Faculty Fellows Program has named 11 faculty members from six colleges and schools as its 2020-21 cohort. The yearlong fellowships, including a semester in residence at the center, are designed to give promising early-career faculty...
  • Development Sociology
  • Communication

Migrations initiative announces cross-campus awards

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Can we relocate a sinking city to become a new political crossroads and hub of biocultural diversity? And how are emerging diseases like COVID-19 related to the increasingly mobile practices of humans and animals? The world is on the move, and...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Microbiology
  • Biodiversity
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Ecosystems
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Provost announces School of Public Policy, superdepartments

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The university will launch the Cornell School of Public Policy, a separate school with its own dean who will report to the provost. In addition, “superdepartments” drawing faculty from multiple colleges or schools will be created or expanded in...

NYC Visioning projects host cross-campus events

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In recent progress reports, the team leaders updated the status of their projects, which were selected by President Martha E. Pollack to expand learning and research opportunities for students and faculty, and to complement work in Ithaca during...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Department of Communication
  • Animals
  • Communication

Grant funds high-tech system to improve grapevine pruning

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The research is possible thanks to a grant from the Pennsylvania Wine Marketing and Research Program. The award begins this year with $60,000 for year 1; the grant will be renewed each year, dependent on progress, for up to three years and $160...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
  • Crops
  • Environment
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Spending time in nature reduces stress, research finds

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The research, published Jan. 14 in Frontiers in Psychology, is part of a larger examination of “nature therapy” and aims to provide an easily-achievable dosage that physicians can prescribe as a preventive measure against high levels of stress...
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Behavior
  • Nature
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Cornell graduate students captivate kids with food science

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About a dozen Cornell graduate students in food science entertained hundreds of children at the Ithaca Sciencenter on Feb. 19 by explaining the secrets of gummy worms (sodium alginate, the seaweed material that gums the candy), pickles...
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Webinar examines social media’s impact on young people

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Presenting the hourlong webinar will be Janis Whitlock, research scientist in the College of Human Ecology, and Natalie Bazarova, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Visit the eCornell website to...
  • Communication
  • Media

Quadrupling turbines, U.S. can meet 2030 wind-energy goals

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“The United States currently produces about 7% of its electricity from wind energy,” said Sara C. Pryor, professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. “This research shows that a quadrupling of the installed capacity of wind...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Climate Change
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Physics tool helps track cancer cell diversity

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A Cornell-led team took a novel, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the behavior of breast tumor cells by employing a statistical modeling technique more commonly used in physics and economics. The team was able to demonstrate how the...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Medicine
  • Biology
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Newly found bacteria fights climate change, soil pollutants

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A team of Cornell researchers has discovered a new species of bacteria that is especially adept at breaking down pollutants in contaminated soils.
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Soil
  • Bacteria
  • Microbiology
  • Environment
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Cornell scientists amplify ‘green’ research at AAAS

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Researchers – including nearly a dozen from Cornell – met in seminar rooms, ballrooms, hallways, coffee shops, lunch counters and the exposition hall. Drew Harvell, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, spoke at a Feb...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Fish
  • Disease
  • Environment
  • Water
  • Ecosystems

Experiential learning program celebrates 20 years in India

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That question was answered over two weeks in January, as she and 17 other Cornell students – along with a nearly equal number of Indian students – traversed nearly 1,000 miles across India as part of coursework for the International Agricultural...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
  • Development
  • Crops
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Partnership seeks to unleash DNA’s potential

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Wojtek Pawlowski, associate professor of plant genetics, has been studying the mechanisms of genetic recombination for 15 years. Now his lab, part of the School of Integrative Plant Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plants
  • Biology
  • Genetics
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Top ag schools joining forces at Cornell digital ag hackathon

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The tools of technology can help develop innovative solutions, but it’s too big a task to tackle alone. This year, students and faculty from the world’s five leading agricultural universities, including Cornell, will spend three days learning...
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Development
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Climate Change
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For runners heading to Olympics trials, it’s been a long haul

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After work, she does either another run, cross-training or weight training. On Sundays she takes a longer run – 20 miles or more. “It’s not easy to cram 20 hours a week of training in with a 40-hours-a-week job and having two kids,” said Benson...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Nutritional Sciences
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Consider workplace AI’s impact before it’s too late, study says

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In the work world, artificial intelligence often is designed to prioritize technological aspects over social ones, and according to new Cornell research, this may trigger unexpected consequences in other parts of society.
  • Department of Communication
  • Applied Economics
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Global startup summit taps Zymtronix as challenge finalist

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The Hello Tomorrow group scouts the world for cutting-edge technology applied in the digital, quantum physics, biology, biotech and new-material realms. “Hello Tomorrow is the equivalent of the Olympic games for ‘deep tech’ startups,” said...
  • Agriculture
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Two life scientists win 2020 Schwartz awards

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Created through support from Joan Poyner Schwartz ’65 and Ronald H. Schwartz ’65, the award will provide $25,000 apiece to Angela Poole, assistant professor of nutritional sciences in the College of Human Ecology, and Gerlinde Van de Walle...
  • Horticulture Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Medicine
  • Horticulture

Study measures consumers’ demands for cassava

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A new study examines how consumers and famers in sub-Saharan Africa are responding to new varieties of cassava, which grow better, but lack certain culinary characteristics.
  • Global Development Section
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Food
  • Vegetables
  • Global Development
  • Plants
  • Crops
  • Behavior
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