Family values outweigh politics in U.S. Latinos’ climate beliefs

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New research led by Adam Pearson ’03, associate professor of psychological science at Pomona College, and Jonathon Schuldt ’04, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and interim executive director...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
  • Climate Change
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New archive reveals treasure trove of U.S. media experiments

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Almost from the day it launched in March 2012, the media company Upworthy began conducting experiments, testing which headlines and photos on their stories people responded to best. The experiments worked. A year after its launch, Upworthy was...
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication
  • Media
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Leading Through Extension: Supporting New York's Farmworkers

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Mary Jo Dudley is the Director of the Cornell Farmworker Program and a faculty member in the Department of Global Development. In this episode of "Extension Out Loud," Dudley recalls the history of the Cornell Farmworker Program and shares some...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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New Cornell sugarhouse sweetens NY’s maple industry

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The Cornell Maple Program has opened an advanced, New York state-funded maple research laboratory, an upgrade that will enable research on making high-quality syrup, and new and existing maple products – all at commercial scales.
  • Arnot Teaching and Research Forest
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Food
  • Development
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Vive la différence: When lemons masquerade as plums

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CALS associate professor Ariel Ortiz-Bobea and collaborators have found that a law regulating wine production in 1930s France, known as the AOC, resulted in a 7% net increase in industry welfare, and set the standard for quality control.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Beverages
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Hemp goes ‘hot’ due to genetics, not environmental stress

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Growing hemp for CBD (cannabidiol) is a burgeoning industry, thanks to the compound’s use in treating everything from pain, anxiety and depression to easing cancer-related symptoms.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Crops
  • Horticulture
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Spotted lanternfly spreading in New York state

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The spotted lanternfly – an invasive, destructive pest with a wide range of hosts including grapes, apples, hops, maple and walnut – has spread to a growing number of counties in New York state.
  • Agriculture
  • Environment
  • Food
  • Fruits
  • Disease
  • Plants
  • Crops
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Indian women’s nutrition suffered during COVID-19 lockdown

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The 2020 nationwide lockdown India imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions that negatively impacted women’s nutrition, according to a new study from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Behavior
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Advanced microscopy shines light on new CRISPR-Cas system

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Eventually, these findings could lead to a reliable CRISPR-Cas system that allows scientists to insert larger cargoes of genetic information into cells with more precision than current techniques allow, with far-reaching implications for...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Genomics
  • Biology
  • Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
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$1M NASA grant to improve carbon monitoring in East Africa

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The East Africa study area – including Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – has experienced deforestation and also contains many large-scale land restoration and land-based climate mitigation programs, but lacks systems for quantifying...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Ecosystems
  • Climate Change
  • Global Development
  • Plants
  • Soil
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Innovative scholar and leader Max Pfeffer announces retirement

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Max Pfeffer, a distinguished researcher of rural and urban communities and a leader who helped reshape the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for the 21st century, will become emeritus professor of global development on July 1.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell researchers provide new insights on cassava flowering

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A tropical root-crop that is a daily staple food to hundreds of millions of people in Africa and increasingly being used by small-holder farmers in commercial production, cassava has historically been difficult for plant breeders to improve in...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
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Lead New York announces 19th class

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Lead New York, a leadership development program for adult professionals in the food, agriculture and natural resource sectors, has announced the members of its 19th class.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Five alumni headed to Tokyo for Olympic Games

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The long wait for the delayed 2020 Olympics will finally end this week, and when it does Cornell will be represented by five alumni competing in five sports.
  • Global Development Section
  • Statistics and Data Science
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Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement boosts climate resilience, nutrition in West Africa

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The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement works with smallholder farmers and rural populations in West Africa to develop sustainable crop innovations that address climate change and other social challenges.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
  • Plants
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New program to speed salmon breeding

News

Breeding Insight, a new program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through Cornell University, will share latest tools with breeders in the U.S.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Genomics
  • Genetics
  • Food
  • Fish
Man holds a fresh salmon.

Northwest heat wave ‘should not have been possible’

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After stifling temperatures parked over the Pacific Northwest in late June, scientists – including Cornell’s Flavio Lehner – said climate change triggered it.
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Planet
  • Climate Change
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