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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Quotes Du Jour from the Humphrey Fellows

Field Note

What the Cornell Humphrey Program director Peter Gregory and I have in common is we both love quotes! Quotes put words to our unexplainable fears, inspire us to stand up for ourselves and take risks, and open our eyes to the struggles we share...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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International Humphrey Fellows build lasting American friendships

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Every August, a new international cohort of Cornell Humphrey Fellows arrives in Ithaca, New York. While each Fellow is an accomplished professional in their own right, many begin their fellowship feeling lonely, uncertain, and disconnected from...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Harold van Es: ‘Building Soils’ yields multiple benefits

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This summer, the United States Department of Agriculture's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program published the fourth edition of Building Soils for Better Crops — arguably the most influential publication on soil health...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Field Crops
  • Organic
  • Natural Resources
  • Climate Change
  • Soil
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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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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

Multimedia

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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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Community land rights in a globalized world

Field Note

Indigenous communities in the tropical lowlands of Latin America have for generations faced insecure claims on their lands. In recent years, efforts to formally recognize land rights have merged with environmental policies to protect forests and...
  • 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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