Alumna Jan Low named a World Food Prize laureate

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Jan Low, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’94, an agricultural economist whose pioneering work combining agriculture and nutrition has improved the health of millions in sub-Saharan Africa, has been named a 2016 World Food Prize co-laureate. The introduction of...
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Indicator of chronic fatigue syndrome found in gut bacteria

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Physicians have been mystified by chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition where normal exertion leads to debilitating fatigue that isn’t alleviated by rest. There are no known triggers, and diagnosis requires lengthy tests administered by an...

Sustainability projects funded by new Atkinson Center grants

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Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) has given $1.5 million from its Academic Venture Fund to a record 14 new university projects. CALS researchers are involved with 11 of those projects. “Our Academic Venture Fund (AVF)...
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Edward McLaughlin named interim dean of the Dyson School

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Edward McLaughlin, a distinguished expert in the efficiency of food distribution systems, will become the interim David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management starting July 1, Provost Michael Kotlikoff...
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Symposium honors plant hormone expert Peter Davies

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Peter Davies, a plant hormone expert who taught generations of Cornell students plant physiology during his career, retired in January after 46 years with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. A symposium was held June 17 at Emerson Hall...
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Alumni learn about effects of extreme weather on farming

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Thor Oechsner ’87 spent years cultivating a rich layer of topsoil essential to growing lush fields of organic wheat, rye and buckwheat. But it took just a few minutes for those years of hard work to be washed away when more than 5 inches of rain...
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Liberty Hyde Bailey lecture honors Steve Tanksley

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Probing the pathways and genetic basis that controls fruit ripening; exploring the tomato plant’s immune response of plants; enhancing rice production by delving into the plant’s genome. Those diverse research specialties teasing out the genetic...
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How the lepidoptera got its spots

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By tweaking just one or two genes, Cornell researchers have altered the patterns on a butterfly’s wings. It’s not just a new art form, but a major clue to understanding how the butterflies have evolved, and perhaps to how color patterns – and...
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Four Cornell projects receive $1.65 million from USDA

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Uncovering novel compounds from soil microbes that could be used to manage weeds. Understanding the genetics of how insects develop resistance to engineered crops that express a bacterial insecticide. These are two of four Cornell projects that...

Indian cotton supply chain benefits traders, hurts farmers

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In the Vidarbha region of India, 3.4 million people spend most of their lives farming cotton and living in poverty. One of the problems these farmers face is traders who share the pain when prices drop but share very little of the gain with the...
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Design exhibit offers N.Y. town climate change defense

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To keep riverfront communities intact in the face of rising waters due to climate change, landscape architecture master’s students at Cornell’s Climate-Adaptive Design (CAD) studio are sketching sturdy, flexible concepts for a city along New...
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CALS research uses high-tech to monitor ocean, fishery health

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Cornell seafaring scientists are working to strike a more sustainable balance for commercial marine fisheries facing rising demand. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, global production of capture...
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Northern exposure: new CCE ag teams aiding North Country

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Home to rich soil, a large dairy presence and determined crop producers, New York’s North Country also has more square miles than the entire state of Vermont and faces unique agribusiness challenges. Helping farmers navigate those issues is new...
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Beyond milkweed: Monarchs face habitat, nectar threats

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In the face of scientific dogma that faults the population decline of monarch butterflies on a lack of milkweed, herbicides and genetically modified crops, a new Cornell study casts wider blame: sparse autumnal nectar sources, weather and...
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