Video game experience or gender may improve VR learning, study finds

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“We didn’t know exactly what we were going to see,” said Jack Madden, M.S. ’17, doctoral student in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and first author of “Ready Student One: Exploring the Predictors of Student Learning in...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication

From education to service: David Kay’s 40-year journey

Field Note

The social tailwinds that lofted me here were stirred by the movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Most important was my undergraduate exposure to the debates about global economic growth and the environment following publication of The...
  • Community and Regional Development Institute
  • Global Development Section
  • Applied Economics
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Students sketch Ossining’s budding waterfront ideas

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Cornell graduate students studying landscape architecture examined Ossining last fall, and in mid-December presented the town and village with ideas for climate-change adaptation. The student projects included marrying the built environment with...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Water
  • Climate Change
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Cornell-discovered shrimp makes 2019 top 10, but not for taste

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Nicknamed the "Star of the Sea," the World Registrar of Marine Species recognized this new species of bioluminescent shrimp for its diversity and unique mating behaviors.
  • Shoals Marine Laboratory
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
  • Nature
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Professors to field food industry COVID-19 queries

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The remote videoconference – the first of three sessions – can be accessed here. Food science panelists will be Sam Alcaine, assistant professor; Olga Padilla-Zakour, professor; and Martin Wiedmann, the Gellert Family Professor in Food Safety...
  • Food Science
  • Food

Cornell creates detailed COVID-19 website for food industry

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Coherent safety information for food processing plants in New York and other states can be difficult to find, said Sam Alcaine, assistant professor of food science, who led the writing of the descriptive text for the new website. Food processors...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Food Safety Laboratory and Milk Quality Improvement Program
  • Institute for Food Safety
  • Food Science
  • Microbiology
  • Food
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Research interrupted: Lab groups find their way together

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The first was how best to help her students. “Everyone is just stunned ..., obviously because of the coronavirus, but also because of their research suddenly stopping or slowing down,” said Wolfner, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Molecular...
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Entomology
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CCE podcast helps NYS communities meet challenges

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“[We deal with] everything from what to do with pets, to ‘I have mold in my basement because I've been flooded,’ to ‘I have ice dams building on my roof because of a four- or five-foot snow load,’ and on and on,” Tidball said in a recent episode...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Webinar to address COVID-19 crisis communication

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The current COVID-19 public health crisis has created lots of uncertainty, but on March 20 at 11 a.m., three of Cornell’s most prominent faculty will share their crisis communication expertise to help people best serve their stakeholders...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Chobani supports new generation of dairy leaders

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She grew up working on her family’s farm in western New York, and now majors in animal science with a focus on dairy management. Starceski is one of four Cornell first-year students who’ve received $20,000 scholarships from Chobani to help them...
  • Animal Science
  • Food
  • Dairy
  • Animals
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Cornell helping NYS wineries craft sustainable future

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Younger consumers aren’t engaging with it like their older peers, and are drinking less in general, but sustainably produced wine could change that. According to a 2019 Wine Intelligence consumer survey, sustainable wine had the highest future...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Sequencing hornwort genomes could improve crops

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Fay-Wei Li, adjunct assistant professor of plant biology and a faculty member of the Boyce Thompson Institute, and researchers from across the globe sequenced the genomes of three hornworts, illuminating the dawn of land plants. The group also...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
  • Biology
  • Genetics
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Cornell experts view coronavirus via multidisciplinary lenses

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The coronavirus pandemic has impacted lives around the world in numerous ways, and Cornell faculty members are sharing their expertise on everything from the virus itself to how it will affect local and global economies.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Medicine
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
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Minorities have broader view of environmental issues

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A new survey shows that members of marginalized communities have broader views on what qualifies as an environmental issue, including human-oriented factors, like drug use and unemployment.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Department of Communication
  • Behavior
  • Communication
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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Faculty debate role of business in climate change

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Asked how it self-corrects for climate change, the businessman, now shoulder-deep in water, replies: “By producing more lifeboats!” Cathy Kling, Tisch University Professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, said...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Climate Change
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Radical Collaboration sees new hires, custom approaches

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Provost Michael Kotlikoff launched the initiative in fall 2016 across six cross-college discipline areas, each covered by a faculty task force: nanoscale science and microsystems engineering; genome biology; data science; sustainability...
  • Computational Biology
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
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