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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Veer Vekaria ’19: Embracing life-long learning in the medical field

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How did your Cornell CALS experience support your personal and professional goals? CALS is defined by the electricity and interplay between all the disciplines it houses. When I first started at Cornell, I felt like a cookie-cutter pre-med...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Biology
  • Health + Nutrition
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Faculty examine racism ‘embedded’ in US health care

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the ways structural racism and inequality are “baked into” the American health care system, said Akilah Johnson, national reporter for the Washington Post, moderating “ Racism in America: Health” on March 29...
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Medicine
  • Behavior
  • Communication
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Meet Julie Raway: Advancing school nutrition programs across New York state

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Julie Raway is a registered dietitian with Broome Tioga BOCES Food Services, a farm to school chair of the New York School Nutrition Association, and a leader of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Farm to School Program Work Team.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition
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Program offers graduate student research support

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The First Presbyterian Church in Ithaca has funding opportunities available to graduate students who intend to help improve food security in developing countries. Grants are made without regard to an applicant’s religious beliefs or absence...
  • Global Development

Meet our new faculty - spring 2021

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  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Meet our faculty: J. Brooks Crickard

Spotlight

Academic focus: My academic focus is in understanding how cells protect the integrity of their genome. This includes how chromosomes are repaired during DNA damage events and how they are even maintained during normal cell growth. Research...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Biology
  • Genetics

Meet our faculty: Lori Huberman

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Academic focus: Fungal genetics and genomics Research summary: I study how fungi sense and respond to their environment. Specifically, I am interested in understanding how fungi sense available nutrients and efficiently utilize them. Accurate...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
  • Pathology
  • Genetics
  • Organisms
  • Environment
  • Nature
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Meet our faculty: Heather Feaga

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Academic focus : Molecular microbiology, bacteriology, biochemistry and genetics Research summary: My lab studies how bacteria translate the genetic code into protein. We use genetic screens to identify new factors that interact with the...
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Medicine
  • Biology
  • Bacteria
  • Genetics
  • Microbial biology
  • Microbiology

Meet our faculty: Matt Marx

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Academic focus: Innovation & entrepreneurship Research summary: I focus on reducing barriers to the commercialization of science and technology, which I experienced firsthand during a decade as an executive and engineer at two startups in the...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics

Meet our faculty: Joyce G. Chery

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Academic focus: My lab focuses on the evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) of plants. We integrate classical plant anatomical and developmental techniques with systematics, phylogenetic comparative methods, and cell and molecular...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants
  • Evolution
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Ecosystems
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Meet our faculty: Virginia Moore

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Academic focus: Breeding for sustainable cropping systems, cover crops, intercropping, polycultures, organic farming systems, Legumes, forages, alfalfa, hemp Research summary: My research focus is on plant breeding for sustainable cropping...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Plants
  • Crops
  • Soil
  • Environment
  • Land
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‘Naturalized’ bulb plantings bloom around Ithaca

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All around Ithaca, long swaths of flower bulbs are popping up through the still-dormant grass to provide some extra early-season color, thanks to Bill Miller and his Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program team. Miller is a professor in the School...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
  • Nature
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Climate change has cost 7 years of ag productivity growth

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The future potential impacts of climate change on global crop production has been quantified in many scientific reports, but the historic influence of anthropogenic climate change on the agricultural sector had yet to be modeled. Now, a new...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Applied Economics
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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Local planners play key role in conserving biodiversity

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One survey respondent reported persuading a local planning board to limit development on a 52-acre parcel with significant wetlands, preserving forest canopy and a biodiversity corridor for animals. Another negotiated a proposed 150-unit...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources
  • Global Development
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Sustainability efforts shine with new solar collectors

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The center on Caldwell Road – which houses research and teaching labs, growth chambers, controlled atmosphere storage rooms and greenhouse facilities – has installed 50 new solar collector panels. The system uses an innovative mirror technology...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
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Service, connection, leadership: Cornellians in the Peace Corps

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In 2010, Freund volunteered for a two-year position in Zambia, where she focused on food and agriculture – familiar terrain following her studies in College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and her work on her family’s dairy farm in Connecticut...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
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How can mining rare-earth elements become more sustainable?

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In the search for more sustainable energy technologies, many of the solutions humans are turning to – rechargeable batteries, massive wind turbines, electric cars, LED lighting – rely on what are known as rare-earth elements. There are 17 rare...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources
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