Young entrepreneurs shine at Grow-NY youth agribusiness competition

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Manfred Lim, a student from Jericho High School in Nassau County, New York, clinched first place and a $3,000 cash prize at the fourth annual Grow-NY Youth Competition, held Nov. 6 in Ithaca, New York. The 2024 Grow-NY Youth Competition, part of...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Medicinal garden at Onondaga Nation School grows opportunity

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The garden - a collaboration between Onondaga Nation and Cornell Botanic Gardens - will enable Onondaga Nation School to incorporate more lessons from and about their own culture.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plants
Gracekelly Fulton '24, co-lead of the Sustainable Landscapes team, prepares to plant a wild plum tree outside Onondaga Nation School. Photo by Sreang Hok.

COMM Updates - 11/13/2024

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Briefings, Conference Presentations, Panels & Workshops Associate Professor Brooke Duffy delivered two panel talks at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference. In “From CareerTok to #Quietquitting: Social Media Communication...
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CBFS StoryMap

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Every summer a group of undergrad students arrive at the Cornell Biological Field Station to start their 10-week internship. This summer, James Hoehner was selected by the Cornell Cooperative Extension for the Oneida Lake Fisheries and Aquatic...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York Sea Grant Institute
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Microbe atlas could reveal how to mine critical metals sustainably

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A Cornell-led team will use a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a “microbe-mineral atlas,” a catalog of microorganisms and how they interact with minerals, key for mining critical metals used for generating sustainable...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment

Challenges and progress in water quality

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Most of the land use for watersheds in the Finger Lakes is farmland. We enjoy this working landscape for the beauty, utility, habitat, recreation and food it provides us all. However, this also means that agriculture can be a significant source...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animals
  • Crops
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COMM Updates - 11/06/2024

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Briefings, Conference Presentations & Workshops Leaders of the Citizens and Technology Lab (CAT Lab) held a briefing in Albany, NY, for state agency and legislative staff on the subject of “Independent Evaluation of Technology Policy.”...
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From Dairy Fellow to Capitol Hill: Advocating for the livestock industry

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In the intricate world of agricultural policy, decisions made in Washington, D.C., have far-reaching impacts on farms across the nation. In this complex landscape, Stephanie McBath ’19, director of public policy and government affairs for Merck...
  • Dairy Fellows Program
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
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