Maple season off to fits and starts
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In spite of 2018 being the fifth warmest February in New York state’s recorded history, March has been unseasonably cool, which has stalled the state’s maple syrup production.
Spring unfurls for ‘Mindful Botany’ walks at Cornell Botanic Gardens
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Cornell Botanic Gardens offers weekly, guided “Mindful Botany” walks, beginning April 6, from noon to 1 p.m. for six consecutive Fridays.
New obesity solutions may be on the tip of your tongue
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Cornell food scientists have discovered that when mice are fed a high-fat diet and become obese, they lose nearly 25 percent of their tongue’s taste buds – possibly encouraging them to eat more food.
Freshman Yianni Diakomihalis crowned NCAA wrestling champion
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Yianni Diakomihalis '22 became the second Big Red freshman to earn a national title in wrestling, following in the footsteps of CALS alumnus Kyle Dake ’13.
So close, yet so far: Making climate impacts feel close by may not inspire action
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Upending the conventional thinking in climate change communication, Jonathon Schuldt finds when people say faraway climate impacts feel geographically nearby, they don’t necessarily support policies that would stop them.
Finding, using map data online just got easier
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A new redesign of the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository website makes it easier to find and use a broad variety of map data.
Study showing power of single butterfly gene earns Cornell team top prize
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Robert Reed won the 2017 Cozzarelli Prize for scientific excellence and originality for proving that butterfly wing color and iridescence are activated by a single gene.
$1.6M grant may turn sediment into port city pay dirt
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Landscape Architecture’s Brian Davis and Sean Burkholder, University at Buffalo, received a $1.6 million grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund for creating ecologic gold from shipping port sediment.
Students urge lawmakers to support federal student aid
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Cornell students descended on Capitol Hill March 14 for Student Aid Advocacy Day to share their experiences with financial aid.
For two African Cornell undergrads, the UN unveils a world of opportunity
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Brenda Umutoniwase ’20 and Grace Giramahoro ’20, found a Cornell student trip to United Nations Feb. 16 enlightening.
Crops hold harmful mutations that reduce productivity
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New research reveals that even the highest performing maize crops contain rare harmful mutations that limit crop productivity.
At 90, Gilbert Levine leaves Einaudi Center post
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Gilbert Levine, emeritus professor of biological and environmental engineering, first retired in 1983 after more than 30 years on the Cornell faculty. He's giving it another try at age 90.
Sustainability sows a healthy business climate
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The color of money may be the best tint for keeping the world from warming was a key message at the Cornell Business Impact Symposium, “Unleashing the Hidden Power of Sustainability,” on March 10.
Grant seeks to diversify participation in biology, biomedical graduate studies
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A new initiative aims to increase participation rates and enhance the success of under-represented ethnic minorities and students who are deaf or hard of hearing in biological and biomedical graduate fields at Cornell.
House finches with pink eye reveal the secrets of disease virulence
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A new study outlines a pathogen strategy to overcome the immune systems of house finches with conjunctivitis infections.
CALS senior advocates for ag programs on Capitol Hill
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Delegates from Cornell traveled to Washington, D.C., March 4-7 to advocate for federal support of land-grant universities and agricultural research.
Scientists unravel complex factors of starfish diseases
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Cornell CALS scientists are beginning to unravel the complicated connections between viruses, the environment and wasting diseases among sea stars in the waters of the Pacific Northwest.
Devastating emerald ash borer discovered in Arnot Forest
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The emerald ash borer – an invasive beetle that has destroyed ash trees across the country – has been detected for the first time in Tompkins County in Cornell's 4,200-acre Arnot Forest.
Dejah Powell uses awards to help feed her Chicago neighborhood
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The South Side of Chicago, where Dejah Powell ’18 grew up, is known as an urban food desert. Powell, an environmental and sustainability science major, is helping to change that.
Dire levels of CO2 will decimate oceans in 200 years
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Sustained climate warming will drive the ocean’s fishery yields into steep decline 200 years from now and that trend could last at least a millennium, said scientists from Cornell and the University of California, Irvine.