Tear down academic silos: Take an ‘undisciplinary’ approach

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Solving problems like climate change could require dismantling rigid academic boundaries, so that researchers of various backgrounds may collaborate through an “undisciplinary” approach.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Communication
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Plants
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Hands-on learning for environmental policy processes

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Melanie Stansbury M.S. ‘07 came to Cornell intending to earn her Ph.D. in development sociology, with a focus on the governance of water and resolving policy conflicts around tribal and indigenous water rights. One impactful course influenced...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury holding a green sign that read "Climate Action Now" with others activists championing climate and environmental policy.

New York State Farm Directory launching in June '22

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As part of Cornell Cooperative Extension’s role in strengthening New York State agriculture, we are helping to spread word of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets' plans to launch a statewide online Farm Directory. The Farm...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Undergrads launch peer-reviewed journal

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The Cornell Undergraduate Research Journal, a biannual digital and print publication, received 20 submissions for its inaugural issue. From those, the editorial board selected nine articles featuring a wide range of topics.
  • Office of Undergraduate Biology

Higher dengue rates found near public transit in low-income areas

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In Medellin, Colombia, low-income residents who lived in close proximity to new public transit stations had increased rates of mosquito-transmitted dengue fever, according to a new study.
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Medicine
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SUNY Chancellor honors Global Development faculty for teaching excellence

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Terry Tucker, Ph.D. ‘98 earned the 2022 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in recognition of innovative instruction that brought global education to generations of students at Cornell and beyond. Tucker, professor of the practice...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Program donates vegetable starts to underserved families

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It’s that time of year, when New York gardeners are bringing home tomato starts and other vegetables to transplant into their gardens. This season, more than 250 underserved (and often food-insecure) Ithaca-area families once again will have the...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
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Students want some online learning features in ‘new normal’

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While they value in-person interactions, undergraduate students want to keep some of the adaptations developed during online teaching, including online assignment submission and digital question answering, survey research finds.

  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Behavior
  • Biology
 Mark Sarvary instructs a student during class

Brook trout hook for Cornell climate change research and extension outreach

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In 1975, New York officially recognized the brook trout as the state fish. A favorite of anglers and a symbol of the pristine upstate wilderness, this species also contributes to New York state’s annual $2 billion freshwater fishing industry...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Little Moose Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Fish
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Celebrating the CALS Class of 2022

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With the end of another academic year in sight, we’d like to recognize both the CALS undergraduate and graduate classes of 2022.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Office of Undergraduate Biology
  • Animal Science
  • Department of Communication
  • Department of Entomology
  • Global Development Section
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Fernando Romero Galvan: Developing scalable disease detection in grapevines

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Fernando Romero Galvan is a first-year Ph.D. student working in the lab of Katie Gold, assistant professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology. The first student in the School of Integrative Plant Science to receive NASA’s FINESST (...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Male student poses with mobile device in vineyard.

Grapevines from New York Nurseries meet New York Certification Standards

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The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets has revived its Grapevine Certification Program after a 40-year hiatus, and NY-certified vines derived from virus-tested, foundation plantings are now available from three New York...
  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Food
healthy grapes on a vine