Cornell joins consortium to ‘green’ business supply chains

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With more than 100 corporate, academic and nongovernmental organization (NGO) members – including Amazon, ExxonMobil, Campbell’s, Colgate-Palmolive, Pepsico Inc., Walmart and the World Wildlife Fund – the consortium explores paths to address...
  • Cornell Atkinson
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Plants speak ‘roundworm’ for self-defense, study shows

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Led by faculty member Frank Schroeder, the group studied a group of chemicals called ascarosides, which the worms produce and secrete to communicate with each other. As described in a paper published Jan. 10 in Nature Communications, the...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
  • Soil
  • Organisms

December graduates depart with degrees, reading list

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The landscape below was one she first came to know during two years of elementary school in Ithaca, while her mother did postdoctoral work at Cornell. After the family moved to Long Island, she’d treasured memories of the university’s green...
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CALS research leads list of 2019’s most read stories

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In addition to the world-class education it offers, Cornell is a renowned research university, so it should come as no surprise that the most read Cornell Chronicle stories of 2019 dealt with the university’s quest to answer some of science’s...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Food Science
  • Disease
  • Biology
  • Genetics
  • Microbiology
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CALS offers new minor in community food systems

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Students interested in learning about the social, political and agricultural aspects of food systems can choose a new minor, starting this fall, in community food systems. The new multidisciplinary minor...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Development Sociology

Good role models can help dairy farmers reduce antibiotic use

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To find out why, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Cornell and the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands used a social psychology approach to understand how dairy farmers’ views impact how and when they use antibiotics to treat...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Dairy
  • Disease
  • Biology
  • Animals
  • Applied Economics
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Organic crop practices affect long-term soil health

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The study also breaks down how specific components of soil health – such as the abundance and activity of soil animals and soil stability – affect crop productivity. “With growing interest from farmers in being able to harness and exploit soil...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Department of Entomology
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Organic
  • Crops
  • Soil
  • Entomology
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Collaboration yields insights into mosquito reproduction

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Four Cornell researchers – two entomologists and two engineers – took a deeper look at this process. In a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports on Dec. 6, they documented nanoscale changes in the sperm of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
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CLASP participants connect through lifelong learning

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Staff members who paired with student mentors for the fall semester attended a Dec. 12 luncheon in Warren Hall for a “midyear celebration of learning” at which they thanked their mentors and spoke briefly about their learning partnerships. The...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Development
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'Locally grown' broccoli looks, tastes better to consumers

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But the New York broccoli fared much better in a subsequent series of tests. It earned the highest marks for flavor and consumers were willing to pay more for it – on par with the California variety. What changed? The second group was told the...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
  • Food
  • Vegetables
  • Horticulture
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Students’ hot new ice cream offers pinch of cayenne

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Sweet meets heat in “We Cayenne Change the World,” a rich, velvety chocolate ice cream, with a hint of cinnamon and a burst of cayenne pepper. It’s fire-and-ice worthy of an extra scoop, as it won Cornell’s annual Food Science 1101 final project...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy
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Bill Macaulay, Lab of Ornithology benefactor, dies at 74

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The Linda R. and William E. Macaulay Library at the Lab of Ornithology, named after Bill and wife Linda, is the premier archive of media from the natural world, with more than 15 million photos, sound recordings and videos of wildlife, including...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
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Saara Kumar ’17 named Schwarzman Scholar

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Kumar is based in New York City as a program quality and business development associate for Trickle Up, an international poverty alleviation NGO. She designs partnerships between governments, the World Bank and the United Nations. She studied...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Development

Grants seed social science research, conferences

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In all, the center’s Fall 2019 Small Grant Awards supported 14 proposals, including nine research projects and five academic conferences, with a total of $90,000. The awards provide seed funding to help early career social science faculty...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication

John Murray Elliot, animal nutrition expert, dies at 92

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Elliot was known for his teaching as well as his nutritional science research in ruminants. “Professor Elliot had a distinguished career of more than 30 years in the Department of Animal Science,” said Tom Overton, professor of animal science...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Health + Nutrition

Research explores how grape pests sniff out berries

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A new study, published Nov. 21 in the Journal of Chemical Ecology, investigates how these pests find their target amid a sea of other plants in the landscape. The researchers originally hypothesized that grapes might have a unique profile of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • Fruits
  • Crops
  • Entomology
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Graduate School dean wins national leadership award

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Knuth, also a professor of natural resources in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, received the honor at an awards ceremony held during the council’s 59th annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The award includes a $4,000 prize to...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Natural Resources

Pelosi meets Cornell students at UN climate change meeting

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There are 18 students from the Global Climate Change Science and Policy class attending the two-week international conference. The Cornell students are leading partner projects with the governments of Armenia, Zambia and Tonga, as well as The...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Development Sociology
  • Global Development
  • Climate Change
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Intergroup Dialogue Project expands reach with new podcast

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Featuring conversations between students, faculty and staff connected to IDP, podcast episodes are recorded at the Cornell Broadcast Studios and are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and the IDP website. The first episode is...
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