Dyson faculty member receives Weiss teaching award

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The Stephen H. Weiss Awards were announced Oct. 18 by President Martha E. Pollack in a report to the Cornell University Board of Trustees. The eight awardees were unanimously recommended by a selection committee composed of six faculty members...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics

Chickpea snack startup aims to disrupt junk food industry

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Antithesis was recently awarded a $225,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award from the National Science Foundation to explore additional ways to make its nutrient-dense chickpea dough part of the processed foods industry. The...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
  • Food
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New Feed the Future Innovation Lab to leverage top U.S. researchers

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The establishment of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement (ILCI) will create an integrated research and delivery program with multidisciplinary expertise at the cutting-edge of agricultural development, from plant breeding and...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Crops

Cornell’s Humphrey Program marks 40 years of public service

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Pratim Roy envisioned a learning center for those in his native region. In 2013, a yearlong stay at Cornell as part of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program helped him hone key leadership and managerial skills. He returned home to India and...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
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NYC-based landscape architecture course a first

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But changes in transportation and labor costs eventually led to the terminal’s closure. Over the past 65 years, the abandoned site has changed hands multiple times. The facility is one of many post-industrial sites in areas that are now prime...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Environment
  • Landscape
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Insectapalooza 2019 will be bigger and buggier – and free

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That one day is Oct. 19, when the Department of Entomology will host Insectapalooza – an annual extravaganza that aims to take the “creepy” out of “creepy-crawly.” From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., visitors can interact with more than 150 species of live...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Organisms
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Ag-to-energy farmland use is focus of new $2.4M grant

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Six Cornell faculty members – an energy engineer, an applied dynamic structural econometrician, an agricultural and climate change economist, a statistical hydroclimatologist, a hydrologist and an agricultural scientist – will create models...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Food
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Land
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Bryan Duff receives Racker Community Partner Award

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On Oct. 10, Duff received the Racker Community Partner Award for Tompkins County, given to someone in the community who works to improve the lives of people with disabilities. “Bryan Duff has been a wonderful partner from Cornell University,”...
  • Faculty
  • Development Sociology
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Grow-NY Summit to feature food, ag innovations

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The two-day event includes live pitches from food and agriculture startups competing for $3 million in prizes, a symposium, an exhibition of regional food and ag ecosystem leaders and an awards gala. A partnership between Empire State...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture

Cornell student finds invasive water flea in Oneida Lake

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Known to wreak havoc on the aquatic food chain, the flea was discovered by Josh Appel ’22 during routine work in Natural Resources 2100, a field biology class. Groups of students from the class, taught by senior lecturer Paul Rodewald and...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Organisms
  • Water
  • Ecosystems
  • Fish
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Disease trends in sea creatures herald oceanic changes

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The findings, published Oct. 9 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, show that long-term changes in diseases coincide with recent decades of widespread environmental change. Understanding oceanic trends is important for evaluating today’s...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Organisms
  • Disease
  • Climate Change
  • Ecosystems
  • Water
  • Biodiversity
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$1M Walmart Foundation grant to fund Tata-Cornell ag study

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The grant will fund a two-year study, “FPO-led Small Farm Market Access Models for the Future of Food Systems in India,” led by Prabhu Pingali, founder and director of TCI, and professor of applied economics and management at the Dyson School of...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture

Hometown Alumni Award winners connect at Homecoming

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The event brought the alumni and their families together for a lunch, panel discussion and Q&A with university leaders, faculty, trustees and current students. The award was launched in 2018 by Cornell’s Division of University Relations, in...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Department of Communication
  • Agriculture
  • Communication
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Students have ‘eye-opening’ experiences at Climate Week NYC

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In New York City, the students – participating in Cornell’s Global Climate Change Science and Policy class – met with Tonga’s Mahe Tupouniua, secretary of foreign affairs; T. Suka Mangisi, deputy chief of mission; Rose Kautoke, assistant crown...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Climate Change
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Cornell tackles ‘migrations’ global challenge

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The new initiative – Migrations: Researching, Teaching and Building for a World on the Move – was officially launched Oct. 1 with a panel discussion and interactive tour of a special exhibit on migration, how the light gets in, at the Herbert F...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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CCE summer interns extend and explore

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“It’s probably the most impactful summer I’ve had as a Cornell student,” said Adjoa Fosuhema-Kordie ’20. A senior human development major in the College of Human Ecology (CHE), Fosuhema-Kordie’s internship took her to New York City where she...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Zombies breathe life into sustainable housing summit

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To do that, Cornell’s Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) hosts “From Zombies to Vacants to Sustainable Housing: Building Resilient Communities,” a symposium Oct. 23-24 at Warren Hall on the Cornell campus. The symposium will...
  • Community and Regional Development Institute
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Three alumni named 2019 MacArthur fellows

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Zachary Lippman ’00 (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) is a plant biologist investigating the genetic networks underpinning plant development and growth and developing tools to help breed hardier and higher yielding crops. Lisa Daugaard...
  • Plants

Scientists retrace monarch’s toxin-immunity evolution

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By editing these genes into laboratory fruit flies using CRISPR technology, scientists have reconstructed evolution and instantly conferred – in the flies – the same toxin resistance enjoyed by monarchs. “We experimentally went back in...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
  • Biology
  • Evolution
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