Cornell leads effort to provide masks for incarcerated people

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A Cornell administrator is leading a statewide effort to protect one of the most vulnerable populations from COVID-19. Rob Scott, director of Cornell Prison Education Program, has organized 14 New York colleges and universities to provide masks...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell Atkinson awards five more COVID-19 rapid grants

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Since requesting emergency seed-grant proposals in early April, Cornell Atkinson has announced a total of seven Rapid Response Fund grants, including five since the start of May. Also among the newest faculty projects to be funded are studies of...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Community and Regional Development Institute
  • Global Development Section
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior

Meet our faculty: Abigail Snyder

Spotlight

Research focus: I study how the physical and spatial attributes of food processing environments influence the formation of microbial communities on those environmental surfaces and make it easier or more difficult to manage that environmental...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Bacteria

Meet our faculty: Kaitlin (Katie) Gold

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Research focus: proximal and remote plant disease sensing and applied grape pathology Research summary: I study how proximal and remote sensing can be used to make earlier, faster, and more accurate grape disease detection and management...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
  • Pathology

State Integrated Pest Management welcomes new director

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Alejandro Calixto became director of New York State Integrated Pest Managment (NYSIPM) at Cornell AgriTech in may. Calixto brings experience with the Land Grant system and mission from extension and research appointments in the Texas A&M University System focused on ecology and management of urban and agricultural insect pests. His expertise will be an asset to growers across New York state.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension

Say cheese: Local dairy donating to food banks

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Messmer, an alumnus of the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and Lively Run are purchasing milk from upstate New York dairies that would otherwise be dumped due to low demand caused by the pandemic and turning it into cheese...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food Science
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
  • Dairy
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Cornell Research announces SARS-CoV-2 seed grant program

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The Cornell Rapid Research Response SARS-CoV-2 Seed Grant program – funded through the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the Center for Vertebrate Genomics, the Center for Immunology and the Office of Academic Integration – is now...
  • Biology
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Cornell biologists grow, donate plant kits to local families

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As an assistant professor of plant biology in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Frank is used to working with dozens of tomato plants in her on-campus lab. These potted plants, however, were destined for another experiment...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants
  • Nature
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Cabin project upcycles ash trees for sustainable architecture

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Designed and fabricated by assistant professors of architecture Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, the Ashen Cabin uses wood from ash trees damaged by the emerald ash borer, sourced from Cornell’s 4,000-acre research forest in Van Etten, New York...
  • Arnot Teaching and Research Forest
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources
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Outstanding CALS students, faculty and staff honored with annual Dean’s Awards

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More than 40 students and over a dozen faculty and staff were selected for their outstanding achievements in academics, teaching, advising and professional service. Because of restrictions to in-person campus events this spring, Dean Boor...
  • Animal Science
  • Computational Biology
  • Global Development Section
  • Statistics and Data Science
  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Food Science
  • Department of Entomology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Development Sociology
  • Department of Communication
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Landscape Architecture
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Sullivan Fresh Market-on-the-Move delivers meals, hope

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In partnership with Sullivan Allies Leading Together (SALT), area school districts, the County’s Emergency Community Assistance Center, and others, Colavito and Bosket have been sweeping the county in the CCE Sullivan County Fresh Market-on-the...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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AgriTech Center of Excellence helps food, ag startups thrive

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Since September 2018, the Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture has supported more than 75 small, New York state-based companies. In this feature story, read about how the center has helped three of those businesses thrive.
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Craft Beverage Institute
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Beverages
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Leaders share global climate change stories, solutions

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The event was coordinated by Cornell Botanic Gardens, in partnership with the Humphrey program and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Global Development. The webinar featured stories from three Humphrey fellows, who...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
  • Climate Change
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