Pedersen Farms: Growing vegetables for the Northeast market with Cornell AgriTech

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What has it been like to work with Cornell AgriTech over the years? We’ve had a close relationship with Cornell AgriTech over the years working with faculty there ever since we started farming in 1983. Both of us had worked on the Geneva campus...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Vegetables
  • Plants
  • Crops
  • Pathology
  • Climate Change
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Podcast features Cornell Local Roads program

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Part 1 with David Orr David Orr, director of the Cornell Local Roads program joins Extension Out Loud. Do you know who maintains the road you live on or the road you drive to work on? Maybe you’ve never thought about it less there’s a pothole or...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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New Engaged Research Grants awarded to 14 partnerships

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Fourteen teams of faculty and community partners have received Engaged Research Grants from the Office of Engagement Initiatives to increase undergraduate involvement in research that strengthens the well-being of communities. “By combining two...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animal Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Food Science
  • Department of Communication
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Antonie Blackler, pioneering biologist, dies at 88

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He was known for groundbreaking fundamental work on the origin of sex cells in vertebrates. His experiments with South African clawed toads yielded important insights into the development and reproduction of amphibian embryos, with implications...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Genetics

NYC mayor appoints McComas to climate change panel

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed Cornell’s Katherine McComas, Ph.D. ’00, to the fourth New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), an independent group of 20 scientists who will synthesize climate study data and advise city...
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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
  • Climate Change

Dream Work—Unpaid Labor in the Gig Economy

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Stories abound of so-called social media influencers who earn thousands of dollars for a single post. The New York Times reported in July 2019 that the YouTube star du jour, Emma Chamberlain, made as much as $2 million a year from her videos...
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication
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Margaret Smith, new director and associate dean of Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station

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Margaret Smith has been appointed as associate dean and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES), effective August 1, 2020. Margaret came to Cornell in 1987 as a faculty member in Plant Breeding and...
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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

Ashley Leach: Advancing arthropod management in Indiana

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In what ways did your experience as a graduate student at Cornell AgriTech shape your current career path? Cornell AgriTech is an excellent place to pursue your graduate degree. I was fortunate to have a diverse community supporting my research...
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  • Agriculture
  • Crops
  • Entomology
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Adrienne Gorny: Applying her experience at Cornell AgriTech to the North Carolina sweet potato industry

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What kinds of research did you perform while at Cornell AgriTech, and what do you research now? My research at AgriTech focused on the Northern root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne hapla, and the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans in Irish...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
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  • Plants
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  • Pathology
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Gillibrand at virtual town hall: ‘Every farm in NY is hurting’

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Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, described how Congress is addressing these issues, and adjusting policies, during a virtual town hall June 8, hosted by Cornell. “There is no question during these difficult times in New York it is...
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  • Crops
  • Applied Economics
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Reunion panel discusses value of ‘One Health’ approach

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In short, it’s the idea that we’re all in this together. “One Health is a way of reminding all of us of our place within the whole,” said Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff in a video introduction to a panel discussion on the One Health...
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  • Health + Nutrition
  • Biology
  • Animals
  • Behavior
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Planet
  • Ecosystems
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Grant to support research into grape downy mildew

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While pesticides are commonly used to help control it, the pathogen is beginning to develop resistance to a group of fungicides commonly used in East Coast vineyards. A new project led by Kaitlin (Katie) Gold, assistant professor of plant...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
  • Beverages
  • Fruits
  • Disease
  • Plants
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Statement from Dean Boor about #ShutDownSTEM on June 10, 2020

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As we continue to grapple with our sadness and outrage over the recent killings of members of Black communities in America and other acts of racially motivated violence, our academic community is responding by pausing our activities for a day of...

About 480 attend Cornell webinar to reopen tasting rooms

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Nearly 480 industry representatives tuned into a webinar on June 2, hosted by Anna Katharine Mansfield, associate professor of enology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Chris Gerling, senior extension associate at Cornell...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Craft Beverage Institute
  • Beverages
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Armor on butterfly wings protects against heavy rain

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For moths and butterflies, getting hit by a fast-falling raindrop is like a bowling ball falling on a person. Now, new research shows how natural surfaces break up the raindrops to deflect potential damage.
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Plants
  • Biology
  • Entomology
  • Organisms
  • Nature
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Kathryn Boor named Graduate School dean, vice provost

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Boor’s term will begin when her successor at CALS is in place and will run through June 30, 2025. The Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees approved Boor’s appointment June 5. Boor will succeed Barbara A. Knuth as dean of the...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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