Pioneering animal scientist Van Soest dies at 91

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Van Soest’s pioneering work permanently changed the chemical and in vitro analysis of feeds and the understanding of herbivore nutrition. His novel and revolutionary methods of analysis created the standard for how researchers measure the...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
  • Plants
  • Crops

Romar to bolster SIPS civic and urban engagement

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Shari Romar has joined the School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS) as a communications specialist to help elevate awareness of the school's longstanding engagement efforts with communities across the state, nationally and globally. “Shari...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Chris Watkins elected ISHS Fellow

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Watkins has served as the ISHS Division Postharvest and Quality Assurance Chair since 2018, and he was previously the chair of the ISHS Commission Quality and Postharvest Horticulture from 2014-2018. The society commended Watkins for his...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Produce Safety Alliance offers training in new languages

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“We have farmers in this country and globally who provide fruits and vegetables to US consumers and they need training in other languages,” said Elizabeth Bihn, director of the Produce Safety Alliance, a cooperative agreement between Cornell...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
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Isolation alters visual areas of brain in social wasps

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Paper wasps (Polistes fuscatus) recognize the brightly colored faces of other paper wasps, an ability they lose when reared in isolation. The wasps’ ability to remember faces is similar to primates and humans, but unlike other social insects...
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Animals
  • Entomology
  • Behavior
  • Environment
  • Nature
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Leading Through Extension: Experimenting Together

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Historian and professor Scott Peters has dedicated over two decades to examining the dynamic relationships that scientists, scholars, and extension educators at land-grant universities have with the communities they serve.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Report guides food, ag entrepreneurs; $1M contest opens

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The report, titled A Call for Innovation: New York’s Agrifood System, seeks to foster regionalization and diversity in these industries by offering evidence-based recommendations and guidance to aspiring entrepreneurs in agriculture, food...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Food
  • Development
  • Applied Economics
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‘Our Changing Menu’: Warming climate serves up meal remake

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“Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need,” a new book from an imprint of Cornell University Press, presents a global climate tour of Earth’s foods – from vegetables, grains and meats to beverages and desserts – from the...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Department of Communication
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Crops
  • Entomology
  • Communication
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Planet
  • Water
  • Natural Resources
  • Land
  • Climate Change
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Institute for Food Safety to offer first in-state FDA training

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New York state is ranked second in the nation for food processing, according to the USDA Economic Research Service, and collaborations between the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYS AGM), the Food and Drug Administration...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Institute for Food Safety
  • Food Science
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Study: Ag policy in India needs to account for domestic workload

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Women’s increased agricultural labor during harvest season, in addition to domestic house care, often comes at the cost of their health, according to new research from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI). Programs...
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Study: More exposure to political TV ads heightens anxiety

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We’ve all seen them: political ads on television that promise doom and gloom if Candidate X is elected, and how all your problems will be solved if you choose Candidate Y. And Candidate Y, of course, approves this message. Beyond attempting to...
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Medicine
  • Behavior
  • Communication
  • Media
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Secrets of an Extinct Landscape

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The Gandolfo-Nixon lab studies the origin of Southern Hemisphere floras. “I initially became interested in the biogeographical patterns of extant plants—how these plants are distributed and how they have dispersed until they get to where we find...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
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Seminar to explore racial and food justice movements in New York

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The seminar, “ A Pig and a Garden: Fannie Lou Hamer, Agricultural Cooperatives and the Black Freedom Movement, ” will be led by Monica White , associate professor of environmental justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her talk...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell Atkinson, EDF partner on three sustainability projects

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The IIF brings together academic and NGO experts and practitioners to develop and test evidence-based solutions to some of the world's more intractable sustainability problems and addresses urgent environmental and public health challenges...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Planet
  • Water
  • Natural Resources
  • Climate Change

Study will help NYS livestock farmers maximize profit

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The goal of the three-year, $500,000 grant is to develop and deploy data, analysis and feedback tools that give farm managers the ability to make better decisions as they select local markets, price meat and market their products – all with an...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
  • Applied Economics
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New model for research co-production speeds knowledge to impact on natural resource management

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David M. Lodge, the Francis J. DiSalvo Director of Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and faculty member in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (CALS), helped overcome these issues in order to reduce the introduction...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Organisms
  • Biology
  • Biodiversity
  • Communication
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Water
  • Ecosystems
  • Climate Change
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Plantationocene conference to examine plantations’ legacies

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On April 15–16, scholars, activists and practitioners from around the world will meet to explore plantations’ deep-rooted legacies – including racial inequality, dispossession and climate change – in a Conversation on the Plantationocene.
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Global Development
  • Development
  • Crops
  • Behavior
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Land
  • Climate Change
Plantationocene conference to examine plantations’ legacies

Soil bacteria could improve crop yields, via fungi

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Researchers know that a type of fungi called arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi establishes symbiotic relationships with the roots of 70% of all land plants. In this relationship, plants trade fatty acids for the fungi’s nitrogen and phosphorus...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
  • Biology
  • Bacteria
  • Organisms
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Ecosystems
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Three CALS students to receive SUNY Chancellor’s Award

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The award acknowledges outstanding achievements that demonstrate excellence in areas including academics, leadership, campus involvement, community service, or the arts, according to SUNY. A virtual recognition ceremony for around 130 awardees...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Biology
  • Evolution
  • Environment
  • Water
  • Climate Change
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