Street smarts: Cornell paves the way for safer roads in NYS

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A half-mile snippet of Albro Road, a sleepy byway in Sherburne, New York, 36 miles south of Utica, had severe cracks in its pavement. They made for a teeth-chattering ride. “I don’t think you’d want to have an open coffee cup in your hand on...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Applied Economics
  • Environment
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Wheat expert calls for global unity to avert future hunger crises

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A global alliance of countries and research institutions, including Cornell, committed to sharing plant genetic material, has secured food access for billions of people, but a patchwork of legal restrictions threatens humanity’s ability to feed...
  • International Programs
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
  • Plants
A man and a woman stand in a field of wheat, examining the growing plants

A sea of troubles: Marine ecosystems send an SOS

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Marine ecologist Drew Harvell was a University of Washington doctoral student in zoology in 1982 when she went on a research trip off Panama’s western coast with one of the world’s foremost experts in the biology of coral reefs. Then twenty-six...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
  • Biology
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Water
  • Ecosystems
  • Fish
  • Disease
A blue ocean with fish swimming in a school far in the distance and multi-colored coral in the foreground with a plastic back wrapped around it

Meet our Faculty: Andrew McDonald

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New faculty member Andrew McDonald is an associate professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section with a focus on cropping systems ecology and sustainable agricultural development.
Andrew McDonald

Meet our Faculty: Corrie Moreau

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Corrie Moreau is a professor in the Department of Entomology, the Martha N. and John C. Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity and curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC) in the Department of Entomology.
Corrie Moreau posing near book shelf

Meet our Faculty: Katherine Sender

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Professor Sender focuses her research and teaching on gender, sexuality, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer media.
Katherine Sender

New roots are foundation for big changes

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Apple-growing operations over the past half-century have undergone a stark transformation. But the story of the modern apple orchard begins in many ways below ground.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Plants
Illustration of apple trees and roots

The great disruption: What happens when Earth's population hits 10 billion?

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Rapid and radical changes are happening across agriculture as digital technology expands a farmer’s capacity to produce high-quality, nutritious food.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • International Programs
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Food
  • Plants
Ground robot and drone monitoring crops in field

How can we deliver clean, safe water to NYC?

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Millions of times each day, New Yorkers turn on the faucet, relying on water supplied from about 125 miles away in the Catskill Mountains. Cornell CALS expertise keeps the award-winning water pristine.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
  • Bacteria
  • Water
  • Health + Nutrition
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Meet Our Faculty: Buz Barstow

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Buz Barstow, assistant professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering Academic focus: I’m an applied physicist working on synthetic biology and sustainable energy. Previous positions: Burroughs-Wellcome Fund CASI fellow...
Barstow in his lab