COMM Updates - 12/18/2024

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Conference Presentations Graduate student Emma Cox presented “Effects of Cohesion with Teammates on Division-I Student-Athletes’ Mental Health: An Application of the Human Need to Belong and Transactional Stress Frameworks” at the National...
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RANA Prize winner to support women’s mobility, empowerment in Nigeria

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Ijeoma Seraphie Obiedelu, a peacebuilder whose work seeks to innovatively confront gender-based inequalities and violence in Nigeria, earned the 2025 Ronny Adhikarya Niche Award (RANA), the Department of Global Development announced today. The...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Ijeoma Obiedelu headshot

New IPBES report offers policy insights on interconnected global crises

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A landmark new report, launched today by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES), offers decision-makers around the world the most ambitious scientific assessment ever undertaken of these complex...
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change
  • Food
  • Global Development
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Distinguished New York high school students tackle global food security

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Eight student delegates from the New York Youth Institute joined 162 other delegates at the 2024 Global Youth Institute, an educational conference for high school students hosted annually by the World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines, Iowa...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Exploring the global impact of food, energy and water security

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In a classroom in Warren Hall, students in Global Food, Energy and Water Nexus (ANSC 4880/6880 and crosslisted) delve into a heated debate about China’s Three Gorges Dam. They weigh its effectiveness in providing carbon-neutral energy while...
  • Animal Science
  • Food Science
  • Energy
  • Climate Change
  • Water
  • Food
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Cornell helps NYS growers hone the art and science of poinsettias

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From root rot and powdery mildew to white flies and Lewis mites, the threats to poinsettias abound - NYS growers persevere with the support and expertise of Cornell faculty and staff.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Entomology
  • Horticulture
Poinsettias in full bloom at Emma's Garden Growers, a Long Island plant wholesaler whose owners have been relying on Cornell's services for generations.

COMM Updates - 12/11/2024

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Awards The annual Woodford Persuasive Speech Contest took place on November 20, 2024. The contest is the culmination of the undergraduate course Oral Communication, taught by Senior Lecturer Michelle LaVigne. The event features students...
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“Gender, Power and Politics in Ag” book pushes for progress, not buzzwords

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A new book co-edited by a Cornell faculty and student highlights the distortion of gender research in agricultural development and calls for transformative changes to the power dynamics and political systems that harm women and worsen hunger in...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
  • Plants
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Aldwinckle, Wiesner elected to National Academy of Inventors

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Aldwinckle, a professor emeritus of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and professor...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Recycling human, animal excreta could help meet nutrient supply for crops

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A global analysis by Cornell researchers found that recycling all the human and livestock feces and urine on the planet would contribute substantially to meeting the nutrient supply for all crops worldwide, thereby dramatically reducing the...

  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Food Science
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Ecosystems
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Crops
  • Soil