In podcast, outgoing CALS dean reflects, ponders trends

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Before she moves on to new roles – as dean of the Cornell Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education – Boor joined Cornell Cooperative Extension’s “Extension Out Loud” podcast to reflect on her journey through agriculture, as both...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
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Report fosters ag industry climate-change tracking

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Art DeGaetano, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, is one of nine scientists who have co-authored a report to help the nation’s farmers, producers and commercial agricultural managers reduce risk in the face of climate change. “We...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
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Baltimore, Bullock’s orioles will retain separate identities

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In one corner: the Bullock’s oriole, found in the western half of North America. In the other corner: the Baltimore oriole, from the eastern half. Where their ranges meet in the Great Plains, the two mix freely and produce apparently healthy...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Genetics
  • Animals
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Benjamin Houlton named as the next Ronald P. Lynch Dean of CALS

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Houlton’s five-year appointment, effective Oct. 1, has been approved by the Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and is pending ratification by the State University of New York Board of Trustees. He also has been...
  • Global Development Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
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Lee Teng-hui, Ph.D. ’68, former Taiwan president, dies at 97

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After earning a Cornell doctoral degree in agricultural economics at age 45, Lee returned to Taiwan, where he was appointed to a number of governmental positions, including the mayor of Taipei (1978-81) and the provincial governor of Taiwan...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
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Panel: Pandemic has exposed long-standing health inequities

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“For those of us living in black and brown bodies … it’s not unprecedented, it’s business as usual, unfortunately,” said Rachel Hardeman, associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. “Like other epidemics...
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Behavior
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Reflections on COVID-19 and SNAP-Ed: Making Lemons Into Lemonade

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This is a personal essay by Nutrition Educator Sarah Martin and SNAP-Ed Program Manager Nicole Maline with Cornell Cooperative Extension Erie County. In the last quarter of 2019, the Northwestern region SNAP-Ed team delivered almost 400 in...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Health + Nutrition
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McNair Scholars lobby DC virtually for more higher ed funding

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With a major in biology and society, she had planned to live on campus in student housing to continue her research on the effect of the nutrient choline on children’s cognitive development. This kind of research can make or break a student’s...
  • Biology
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New soil models may ease atmospheric CO2, climate change

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In an article published July 27 in Nature Geoscience, Cornell’s Johannes Lehmann and others wrote that scientists should develop new models that more accurately reflect the carbon-storage processes beneath our feet, in order to effectively draw...
  • Cornell Atkinson
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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Global Development
  • Soil
  • Environment
  • Planet
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Plant communication project gets $1.3M grant from NSF

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Scientists know that some mRNA – which carries genetic code to a living organism’s protein-making machinery – are making the journey from root to shoot. But they don’t know which of the thousands of strands are purposely trying to share genetic...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
  • Crops
  • Biology
  • Genetics
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My Double Conscious Experience in the Ivy League

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Inspired by his personal experience as a Black student in the Ivy League, Ben Fields ’20 analyzed how racism, micro-aggressions and human behavior contribute to the academic career of Black students. His research is not only an important...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Small-farm tech reduces deforestation, climate change

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Small farms in Zambia that use the latest hybrid seed for maize, along with improving health on neutral soils, help reduce deforestation and tackle climate change, Cornell researchers report this month in Global Environmental Change. “Scientists...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Plants
  • Applied Economics
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McLaughlin begins second stint as Dyson interim dean

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For the second time in four years, Edward McLaughlin, the Robert G. Tobin Professor Emeritus of Marketing, has taken the reins as interim David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. A Dyson faculty...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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Bio control experiments aim to balance biodiversity

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CCE Educators Sharon Bachman and Laura Bailey are partnering with Carrie Brown-Lima, director of the New York Invasive Species Research Institute, to control the invasive plant using biocontrol measures. In this episode, "Extension Out Loud"...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Environment
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NYS sanitizer, Cornell’s U-pick guide boost farm success

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“After months of enduring lockdowns, especially in New York, the pick-your-own berry farms around the state are booming this year,” said Marvin Pritts, professor of horticulture in the School of Integrative Plant Science, in the College of...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Fruits
  • Health + Nutrition
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Study identifies spread of bee disease via flowers

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The study, published July 20 in Nature Ecology and Evolution, also found that one in eight individual bees had at least one parasite. The study was conducted in field sites in upstate New York, where the researchers screened 2,624 flowers from...
  • Entomology
  • Pollinators
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Plants
  • Pathology
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Candid cameras: The avian world, up close and personal

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With a network of more than a dozen live-streamed cameras located as far away as New Zealand, the Lab of Ornithology’s Bird Cams project offers a constant dose of eye (and ear) candy — from the breeding habits of a bonded pair of Bermuda petrels...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Environment
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Scientists track plant diseases riding across globe with dust

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A multidisciplinary, Cornell-led team of scientists has been selected for a $750,000 NASA grant to combine their expertise in remote sensing, climate and earth system computer modeling, plant pathology and genomics to better understand how plant...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Plants
  • Pathology
  • Soil
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