Cornell partners in $10M poultry science grant

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The grant, awarded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture on Sept. 1 and co-led by the University of Arkansas, is among the largest grants ever awarded by the USDA, and dovetails with Cornell’s land-grant missions of research...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Food
  • Meat
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Grow-NY finalists put down roots in NYS food and ag economy

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“It’s a bee oasis,” says Scofield, a Cornell doctoral candidate who studies honeybee health. The 50-acre organic farm, owned by the Wegmans grocery store chain, offers honeybees a wide variety of pollens to feed on, she says. It’s also the...
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Meet our new faculty - fall 2019

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  • Animal Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Department of Communication
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Communication

Moonbeam adds a big bang of flavor to Galaxy tomatoes

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“Moonbeam is a very good eating experience from start to finish … from first bite to aftertaste,” said Phillip Griffiths, associate professor of horticulture at Cornell AgriTech, who started developing Moonbeam in 2006 and made it a selection in...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Crops
  • Horticulture
  • Food
  • Vegetables
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CCE podcast profiles Cornell Farms Ops’ work with veterans

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For military veterans interested in starting a career in agriculture, these problems can be exacerbated by limited funding for education and training, and fewer community and social connections, which are common challenges for veterans re...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Expert: Design information networks that support democracy

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Problem solved: Deep in an obscure online forum, years earlier, a woman from a far-away part of the world had posted the complicated sequence of button-pressing necessary to complete the task. “This is so routine for us that we don’t realize...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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CALS honors talent, dedication of faculty & staff

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On Oct. 29, members of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) came together to celebrate the 16th year of the Research & Extension Awards and the 10th year of the Core Value Staff Awards. The awards recognize the notable and wide...
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Fils-Aimé delivers inaugural Leaders in Residence lecture

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Fils-Aimé is the inaugural Leader in Residence at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His talk, sponsored by the Dyson Leadership Program, focused on a list of guiding principles for leaders that he developed while...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Fresh produce earns ‘halo effect’ under new GMO-labeling laws

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The research, “ Signaling Impacts of GMO Labeling on Fruit and Vegetable Demand,” published online Oct. 30 in the journal PLOS One. The study comes as food marketers prepare for a new federal law requiring genetically modified organism...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Genetics
  • Food
  • Fruits
  • Vegetables
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Women on Instagram derided as too real – or not real enough

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This leaves women on Instagram caught in an “authenticity bind” – the nature of social media compels them to share details from their personal lives, but these details make them vulnerable to abuse or charges that they’ve “curated” or faked...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Digital agriculture workshop highlights radical collaborations

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Two Cornell researchers are tackling the age-old problem using 21st century tools: inexpensive, touch-sensitive soft robots that can help growers predict yield and detect fungal threats.' Justine Vanden Heuvel, associate professor of...
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Fruits
  • Horticulture
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CCE connects local farms, foodies through Taste NY

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Owners John and Dawn Alfano have fed their 19 dairy goats a breakfast of sweet feed mixed with black sunflower seeds before releasing them to a hillside paddock, where they sunned themselves in dappled grass, snacked on crispy golden maple...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Symposium seeks to beat back ‘zombies,’ grow sustainable housing

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In fact, so-called “zombie homes” – often left vacant and unmaintained during prolonged foreclosure proceedings – are a serious problem that drew experts from academia, government and nonprofit organizations to Cornell Oct. 23-24 for a symposium...
  • Community and Regional Development Institute

Health inequities and storytelling in new podcast episode

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“My work has sought to identify specific strategies that both convey fundamental causes of health inequities but also offer promising solutions to address them via policy change,” says Jeff Niederdeppe, associate professor of communication in...
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Communication

Art and science provide fertile ground for research, teaching

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“I remember having a conversation with a French artist in Berlin who was working on a sound installation to investigate the sounds of soil,” said Lehmann, professor of soil and crop sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Soil
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CCE’s Blocks in Bloom helps communities flourish

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Her mother, Lydia Rivera-Warr, was taken aback by her child’s observation. “But she was right,” says Rivera-Warr. “Back then, not only was Emerson Street strewn with litter, it was a place where drugs were sold openly and prostitutes hung around...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Nature
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Simoes-Costa wins $2.3M NIH New Innovator Award

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With a grant of $2,355,000 over five years, Marcos Simoes-Costa, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics, will investigate how the spatial complexity of an organism is generated in early development. “For the human body to be...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Biology
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New global development unit calls for ‘education with impact’

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The Department of Global Development will draw from faculty across the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to create a unified development studies program focused on engagement with the world’s grand challenges at home and abroad...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Development Sociology
  • Global Development

Bailee Hopkins-Hensley is connecting people to plants

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Bailee Hopkins-Hensley ’18, MPS ’19, is passionate about exploring the connections that humans have to plants – especially the connections that indigenous communities have to the species that sustain them. She earned a bachelor’s degree in plant...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
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