Students use active learning to solve COVID-19 problems

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Instructors Jillian Goldfarb, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and Alex Maag, postdoctoral associate with Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative, assigned...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
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Food security research grants propel graduate student work in Africa

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Two graduate students working with Professor Rachel Bezner Kerr have received funding for research focused on increasing food security from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability . Doctoral students Emily Baker and Emily Hillenbrand...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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$750K awarded for intercampus research

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The Office of Academic Integration has awarded $750,000 in seed grants to 10 studies ranging from refugee health and legal rights, to a vaccine treating fentanyl addiction and overdose, to pancreatic cancer and antibiotic tolerance.
  • Microbiology
  • Department of Communication
  • Microbiology
  • Communication
$750K awarded for intercampus research

Grapes 101: Oomycete

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Downy Mildew is caused by an Oomycete. What’s an Oomycete? Why does it matter? So What’s an Oomycete, and Why Aren’t They Considered To Be Fungi? One of the groups of organisms that cause many serious plant diseases are known as the Oomycota or...
  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Food

V&E’s MPS Students Bring Diverse Skill Sets to the Cornell Community

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VIEN MPS students frequently come from programs or industries that are not directly related to grape growing and wine making. This wide-variety of prior experiences yields an eclectic student body that seeks to gain formal and hands-on training...
  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Food

Male lyrebirds snare mates with ‘acoustic illusion’

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“The male superb lyrebird creates a remarkable acoustic illusion,” said Anastasia Dalziell, a Cornell Lab of Ornithology associate and recent Lab Rose Postdoctoral Fellow, now at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and first author of “Male...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment
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Robert Seaney, forage management expert, dies at 93

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“Dr. Seaney was an excellent communicator and was widely respected by colleagues, extension agents and farmers,” said Danny Fox, professor emeritus of animal science. “Through his research and extension program, he had a large impact on...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Soil
  • Climate Change

NSF challenges Cornell to tame winter, natural disasters

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Max Zhang, professor in Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will lead the federally funded effort this spring. The work is part of the new Civic Innovation Challenge, announced Feb. 17, an $11 million effort led by...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Climate Change
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Bearded seals are loud – but not loud enough

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These elaborate vocalizations are essential for bearded seal reproduction, and have to be loud enough to be heard over the cacophony of their equally loud brethren . But in the rapidly changing Arctic soundscape, where noise from industrial...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Planet
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USDA grant seeks to enhance milk production and cow health

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Joseph McFadden, associate professor of animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will use the funds to identify mechanisms that control insulin resistance in lactating cows. Under normal circumstances, insulin resistance...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Dairy
  • Animals
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Leading Through Extension with Humility and Responsibility

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In this episode of “ Extension Out Loud,” a podcast by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), Benjamin Houlton, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, shares his journey and his vision for carrying forth Cornell...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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Environmental policies not always bad for business, study finds

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The analysis found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, market-based or incentive-based policies may actually benefit regulated firms in the traditional and “green” energy sectors, by spurring innovation and improvements in production...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
  • Communication
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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$1.3M funds research for a kinder, more inclusive internet

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The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab, led by J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, recently received nearly $1.3 million in grants to further its citizen science studies on the effects of digital technology on society.
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication
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