CALS food science shines at national competition in Chicago

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Some good news for two recent Cornell Food Science graduates is bad news for food-borne pathogens everywhere. Samantha VanWees ’16 and Genevieve Sullivan ’16 earned first and second place at the annual Institute of Food Technologists’...

Election 2016: Convention Crowd Boos, But Twitter Cheers for Cruz

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...
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Art’s historical love affair with decadent, unusual meals

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Our obsession with looking at tasty, exotic food, it turns out, is not just a social media fad. The abundance of #foodporn posts popular on Instagram may signify a longstanding fascination with edible decadence that would have been as familiar...
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Study: vineyard cover crops save expense, environment

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Cornell researchers have advice for vineyard managers in cool and humid climates like the Northeast: cover up. Maintaining bare soil beneath vines has long been accepted management practice to stifle competition from other vegetation, preserving...
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Election 2016: What the Tweets Tell Us

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...
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DiTommaso wins IPM award for his way with weeds — and people

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If two words could sum up Toni DiTommaso’s qualities as professor of weed science at Cornell University, “unbridled enthusiasm” — words from a nomination letter — fit the bill. Yet it’s not just his innovative Integrated Pest Management (IPM)...
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Young scientists shine at inaugural NYSAES symposium

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Students at Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station conduct research that is varied and far-reaching. On June 23 in Jordan Hall, a few of those postdoctoral fellows and graduate students gave a glimpse into their impressive...

Gil Stoewsand, who helped to save N.Y. wine trade, dies

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Gilbert Stoewsand, a Cornell food scientist who helped to rescue New York’s fledgling wine industry in the early 1970s by debunking shoddy science and malicious rumors that attributed health risks to drinking wine made from hybrid grapes, died...
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Flower bud uniformity beholden to time and space

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What makes flowers on a plant almost identical, or internal organs remarkably reproducible? A study of sepals in Arabidopsis plants published in the July 11 issue of the journal Developmental Cellhas revealed the mystery of how such uniformity...
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Population studies pioneer J. Mayone Stycos dies at 89

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Professor emeritus of development sociology Joseph Mayone Stycos, who taught at Cornell for 43 years, died June 24 at Kendal at Ithaca. He was 89. An early pioneer in population studies, Stycos was an expert in the study of population and...
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For dairy farms, flaring methane offers mitigation option

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As New York’s dairy farms get larger and store more manure – rather than spread it – methane emissions have doubled in the last two decades. To reduce this potent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, Cornell researchers advocate an economical...

NNY food hub study completed

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A three-year project by Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Cornell University Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management has analyzed hundreds of surveys of farmers, processors, deliverers and consumers in northern New York...

Cornellians net prizes for distinguished entomology work

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Cornell faculty, students and alumni were named winners of the 2016 Entomological Society of America (ESA) awards. The ESA, which recognizes those “scientists, educators and students, who have distinguished themselves through their contributions...