COMM Updates - 5/31/2023

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Awards Assistant Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., received the International Communication Association’s Early Career Scholar Award. The award honors a scholar no more than seven years past receipt of the Ph.D. for a body of work that has contributed...
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Unlikely coincidence blooms as classic weed guide gets updated

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The classic identification guide “Weeds of the Northeast” sprouted from a collaboration of Cornell researchers. Now, a new edition of the book brings together a pair of uncannily named weed scientists: Antonio DiTommaso and Joseph DiTomaso.

  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Environment
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
Antonio DiTommaso in the Cornell Weed Science Teaching Garden

COMM Updates - 5/24/2023

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Conferences & Invited Lectures Professor Bruce Lewenstein delivered the paper “Core Competencies for Communicating Basic Science” at the SciPEP workshop on equipping scientists to communicate about basic research, which was co-sponsored by the...
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Microbes key to sequestering carbon in soil

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Microbes are by far the most important factor in determining how much carbon is stored in the soil, according to a new study with implications for mitigating climate change and improving soil health for agriculture and food production.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Global Development Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Soil
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Aravelle: the extension story behind Cornell's newest grape variety

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Aravelle, a new grape variety developed by Dr. Bruce Reisch of Cornell AgriTech, is set to make its way into wine glasses across New York, after decades of meticulous research. In this installment of the 'Extension Out Loud' podcast by Cornell...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Viticulture and Enology
Hans Walter-Peterson, Louis and Donna Gridley, and Dr. Bruce Reisch stand next to the Aravelle Grape

Celebrating the CALS Class of 2023

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With the end of another academic year in sight, we’d like to recognize the CALS undergraduate and graduate classes of 2023.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science
  • Department of Communication
  • Food Science
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Students on the Ag Quad in spring