NextGen Cassava director earns Nigeria agriculture prize

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NextGen Cassava project director Chiedozie Egesi was announced as the 2021 Achiever in Agriculture Award for his work creating a platform to deliver resilient food systems in Nigeria.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
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Planes four times as likely to hit birds during migrations

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The risk of airplanes colliding with birds increases greatly during migrations, according to research from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and partners, who have been looking for patterns in data from three New York City-area airports.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment
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Gretchen Goldman ‘06 named to White House environmental policy office

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Gretchen Goldman ‘06 is helping to inform policy at the highest level as the assistant director for environmental science, engineering, policy and justice for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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New engaged course supports NYS rural schools

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A new Cornell engaged learning course, co-sponsored by the Rural Schools Association of New York State, aims to help under-resourced schools identify critical funding needs, then seek grant funds to support programming.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Development
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Narrative approach can change minds on child care spending

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According to new multi-institution research led by Jeff Niederdeppe, professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, that all depends on whose hearts and minds are in the audience. For turning...
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication
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Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announces 2021 Virtual Technical Workshop

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This year the BGRI will host a virtual conference October 6-8 with the theme “Global Resilience: Science, Pandemics, and the Future of Wheat.” The 2021 BGRI Virtual Technical Workshop will explore how nearly two decades of monitoring and responding to wheat rust epidemics can provide lessons for other global disease outbreaks such as COVID-19. Keynote speakers will draw attention to how we can apply the lessons learned from wheat research and epidemic response to other pandemic diseases facing today’s world.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Plants
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$2M grant to fund assessment of biology education

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The National Science Foundation has awarded a nearly $2 million collaborative research grant to principal investigators from Cornell, the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the University of Maine to assess the effectiveness of open educational resources in teaching core biology concepts, facilitating student-centered learning and supporting diversity, equity and inclusion.
  • Biology

Scientists take step to improve crops’ photosynthesis, yields

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Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) are known to photosynthesize more efficiently than most crops, so researchers are working to put elements from cyanobacteria into crop plants. A new study describes a significant step towards achieving that goal...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Environment
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Plants
Maureen Hanson and a student in a lab.

Facial recognition AI helps save multibillion dollar grape crop

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A radical collaboration between a biologist and an engineer is supercharging efforts to protect grape crops, and the technology they’ve developed will soon be available to researchers nationwide.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Disease
  • Plants
  • Crops
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Sarah Evanega Joins BTI Faculty

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Boyce Thompson Institute is pleased to welcome Professor Sarah Evanega as the newest addition to our faculty. Evanega joins BTI from Cornell University, where she was a research professor in the Department of Global Development and the School of Integrative Plant Sciences (SIPS). She will remain an adjunct associate professor in SIPS at Cornell.
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Health + Nutrition

Politicians in areas with most climate risk tweet about it least

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Almost all U.S. politicians tweet about climate change based on party affiliation and the opinion of their constituents, not actual climate risk to the areas they represent, a new multidisciplinary study found.
  • Department of Communication
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Behavior
  • Communication
  • Media
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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Food scientists create national atlas for deadly listeria

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The pathogen listeria soon may become easier to track down in food recalls, thanks to a new genomic and geological mapping tool created by Cornell food scientists.
  • Food Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Soil
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