COMM Updates - 3/26/2025

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Conferences & Symposia Associate Professor Brooke Duffy delivered a lecture entitled “The Creator Economy's Labor Revolution” at SXSW 2025 in Austin, Texas. Despite the astonishing growth of the creator economy, social media creators remain...
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Cornell-supported buckwheat milk makes ‘Shark Tank’ debut

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BAM, a plant-based milk crafted from buckwheat and nurtured with Cornell Food Venture Center support, was in the spotlight on ABC’s “Shark Tank” March 21, when entrepreneur Paige Hansen pitched her pandemic-born creation to potential investors...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
Paige Hansen holds products developed at the Cornell Food Venture Center.

Faces of Extenson: Craig Kahlke

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Craig Kahlke is a fruit quality management specialist and team leader of CCE's Lake Ontario Fruit Program, a group of specialists and associated support staff that covers all aspects of extension programming for the commercial tree fruit and...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Uncovering the value of manure: Sustainable farming in the NYC watershed

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The Value of Manure project aims to help farmers understand the value of cow manure and use it as efficiently as they can, reducing reliance on nitrogen (N) based synthetic fertilizers. Jointly funded by the New York Farm Viability Institute...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Environment
  • Dairy
  • Crops
  • Soil
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Three FFAR students visit Congress

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Three doctoral students supported by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) Fellowship Program visited Washington, D.C. to advocate for agricultural science and learn about policymaking.

  • Animal Science
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition
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Fruit pest employs strategy to survive winter

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New research from Cornell AgriTech is shedding light on how a tiny fruit fly from Southeast Asia is able to survive New York’s freezing winters. Drosophila suzukii was first found in New York about a decade ago. The fruit fly (more accurately...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Entomology
Members of Greg Loeb's lab looked for spotted winged drosophila in a winter field.

COMM Updates - 3/12/2025

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Conferences Assistant Professor Wunpini Mohammed presented “Building Liberatory Futures in Ghanaian Feminist Movements” at the Decolonizing Gender & Sexualities Conference at University of California, Berkeley. This project presents current...
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