NSF funding to help erase upstate NY’s digital divide

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Cornell faculty will collaborate with community partners around New York – through Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) in each county – to set up networks based on low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technology, a form of low-frequency radio....
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Community and Regional Development Institute
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Department of Communication
  • Development
  • Communication
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‘Egg-Vengers’ battling local food insecurity

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The team – dubbed the “Egg-Vengers” – has set up a system to collect hundreds of surplus eggs from the Cornell Poultry Farm and donate them to area food pantries each week. They also are hatching a plan to serve breakfast burritos to Cornell...
  • Animal Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Unplugged: Students build green trailer to energize tools

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Members of the Cornell University Sustainable Design (CUSD) student group have delivered to the Grounds Department a 7-by-12 foot trailer that will cart and energize electric string trimmers, hedge clippers, chainsaws and an electric heavy-duty...
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Natural Resources
  • Climate Change
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Fall 2020 Perspectives in International Development Seminar Series launches

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This Perspectives in International Development Seminar Series features a broad range of researchers and development practitioners presenting the latest findings on contemporary issues relating to sustainable development throughout the world.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Two doctoral candidates named Borlaug Scholars

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Jenna Hershberger and Ella Taagen, doctoral candidates in plant breeding, are among 10 graduate students nationwide who’ve been selected as National Association of Plant Breeders Borlaug Scholars. The Borlaug Scholars program aims to enhance the...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plants

In the face of crisis, equitable farming systems grow in Nigeria

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In the region’s largest city, Maiduguri, an estimated 130,000 displaced people have settled into urban and peri-urban camps – part of more than 1.4 million displaced people living in camps throughout Borno State alone. Many in the camps are...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
  • Crops
  • Land
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New York rural schools respond as classrooms reopen

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Government at both the state and federal levels recognized early in the pandemic that our schools were the primary and often only delivery system in place to support not only the education of children, but the health and welfare of the entire...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Twenty new Engaged Faculty Fellows named

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A total of 20 faculty members from eight colleges have been named Engaged Faculty Fellows, committed to advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship at Cornell and within their academic disciplines. The program is offered through the...
  • Community and Regional Development Institute
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Global Development Section
  • Department of Communication
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Landscape Architecture
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Reflections on an unconventional 4-H camp season

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This summer 4-H camp leaders across New York State found themselves with a difficult task: preserve the camp spirit while following COVID-19 health and safety requirements. They rose to the task with unusual, engaging, fun and creative projects...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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USDA grants to fund studies of plant viruses, insecticides

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The funding is intended to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture. The projects: Michelle Heck, a research molecular biologist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service and adjunct associate professor...
  • Animal Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Department of Entomology
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
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Massive, indeed: Shark MOOC has attracted thousands

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Sharks! Global Biodiversity, Biology, and Conservation has introduced more than 32,000 people from 182 countries to sharks, rays and chimaeras – also known as “ghost sharks.” “Before the first offering of the shark MOOC in the summer of 2016, I...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
  • Animals
  • Environment
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CALS peer mentoring program welcomes new cohort of first-generation students

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For students who are the first in their families to attend college, certain parts of the experience can be confusing, such as campus culture and terminology. However, it’s less intimidating to ask a fellow student to explain the context around...
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Communication
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Study reveals possible new coronavirus entry points

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However, researchers still don’t know the full scope of tissues and cell types that are most vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2. Most research has focused on identifying genes and pathways that facilitate the virus’s entry into lung cells – yet both...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Biology
  • Genetics
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Crunchy, complex: Cornell releases three new apples

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On Sept. 2, Susan Brown , the Herman M. Cohn Professor of Agriculture and Life Science, and research specialist Kevin Maloney announced the release of NY56, NY73 and NY109 – marketed as Cordera, Pink Luster and Firecracker, respectively. As an...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Crops
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Study tracks how milk nutrients shape infant microbiome

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The study, “ Dietary Sphinganine Is Selectively Assimilated by Members of the Mammalian Gut Microbiome,” was published in July in the Journal of Lipid Research. The paper describes an innovative technique developed at Cornell to track the fate...
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Bacteria
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Dyson course addresses supply-chain failures in pandemic

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There are lessons in distribution failures like these – and Daniel Hooker ’93, senior lecturer in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, is teaching a new course this fall to address some of the crises related to the...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
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China’s green plan displaces villagers, forces inequity

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While many studies have lauded China’s new environmental goals, much of this research has focused on the technical ways to make urban infrastructure sustainable and reduce emissions. However, new research suggests a relationship between urbanism...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Behavior
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources
  • Land
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Virtual hemp field day shares insights with international hemp industry audience

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The Aug. 20 event hosted by the Cornell Hemp Research Team on Zoom, drew 359 attendees from the U.S., Canada, Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico and the U.K. to learn about the latest research tips for the hemp...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
  • Crops
  • Horticulture
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