Street smarts: Cornell paves the way for safer roads in NYS

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A half-mile snippet of Albro Road, a sleepy byway in Sherburne, New York, 36 miles south of Utica, had severe cracks in its pavement. They made for a teeth-chattering ride. “I don’t think you’d want to have an open coffee cup in your hand on...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Applied Economics
  • Environment
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Cornell's Eiseman counsels Scotland on climate policy support

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ClimateXChange, Scotland’s research center that connects climate change research to policy, enlisted Danielle Eiseman, Cornell visiting lecturer in communication, and Iain Black, professor of sustainable consumption at the University of Stirling...
  • Department of Communication
  • Climate Change
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For salmonella detection, genomic tool emerges as a key

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A paper published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology on July 12 – co-authored by researchers from Cornell and the Mars Global Food Safety Center (GFSC), Beijing – illuminates breakthroughs. “Salmonella is the foodborne pathogen with the...
  • Food Science
  • Global Development
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Worm pheromones protect major crops, BTI scientists find

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As described in research published in May in the Journal of Phytopathology, these compounds helped protect major crops from various pathogens, and have the potential to save billions of dollars and increase global agricultural sustainability...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
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Wheat expert calls for global unity to avert future hunger crises

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A global alliance of countries and research institutions, including Cornell, committed to sharing plant genetic material, has secured food access for billions of people, but a patchwork of legal restrictions threatens humanity’s ability to feed...
  • International Programs
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
  • Plants
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Howarth advised on methane portions of NY's new climate law

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“It’s the most progressive legislation designed to avert climate change that any state has put out there,” said Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology. The New York State Senate and the Assembly passed the...
  • Horticulture Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Energy
  • Climate Change
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Workshop fuels discussion about biochar, NYS climate goals

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As Gov. Andrew Cuomo was preparing to sign the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act into law, which he did July 18, researchers, policymakers and industry members gathered at Cornell’s pyrolysis facility in Leland Laboratory to...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Energy
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By land and air, students to detect crop diseases with tech

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Northern leaf blight – a devastating fungal disease of maize – often begins where farmers can’t easily detect it, far beneath the plants’ dense canopy. But a ground rover exploring the plants from below, in communication with an airborne drone...
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Land
  • Plants
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New software helps plant breeders bring out their best

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Broccoli is in the eye of the beholder. A head of broccoli that might appeal to one person – perhaps because of its deep green color – may leave another cold, due to an asymmetrical shape or too-large buds. Cornell researchers participating in...
  • Faculty
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Plants
  • Food
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A sea of troubles: Marine ecosystems send an SOS

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Marine ecologist Drew Harvell was a University of Washington doctoral student in zoology in 1982 when she went on a research trip off Panama’s western coast with one of the world’s foremost experts in the biology of coral reefs. Then twenty-six...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
  • Biology
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Water
  • Ecosystems
  • Fish
  • Disease
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Do ladybugs help your garden grow? Depends on surroundings

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When cabbage looper moth larvae infest a field, sustainable growers will often try to control the pests by releasing large numbers of predators, such as ladybugs. That way they can avoid spraying expensive and environmentally harmful...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • Plants
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Nice catch: Cornell scientists net 139-pound Oneida Lake sturgeon

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In May and June during an annual lakewide survey, the researchers capture sturgeon for a census of living creatures living in the lake. This sturgeon, caught June 19, measured 72.5 inches and was estimated to be 20 years old. Lake sturgeon once...
  • Current Undergraduate Student
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Fish
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CALS signs new admissions agreement with Binghamton University

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This is a 3 + 4 program that will allow qualified Cornell students to complete their Bachelor of Science Degree in Plant Sciences through coursework taken in their first professional year at Binghamton. “We’re thrilled to have developed this...
  • Current Undergraduate Student
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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CALS faculty among recipients of White House early career awards

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The White House has recognized four Cornell faculty members – Thomas Hartman, Jenny Kao-Kniffin, Kin Fai Mak and Rebecca Slayton – with prestigious 2019 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The awards were...
  • Horticulture Section
  • Soil
  • Ecosystems
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Designer plants one step closer to growing low-cost medical, industrial proteins

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Imagine if plants could be engineered to produce vaccines, pharmaceuticals, proteins and enzymes for medical, agricultural and industrial applications at a fraction of their current cost. A new Cornell-led study describes a major advancement in...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Medicine
  • Plants

Designer plants one step closer to growing low-cost medical, industrial proteins

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The market for such biologically derived proteins is forecast to reach $300 billion in the near future. Industrial enzymes and other proteins are currently made in large, expensive fermenting reactors, but making them in plants grown outdoors...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Medicine
  • Plants
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Farmworker initiatives earn community engagement honor

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Given by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), the award recognizes extraordinary community outreach initiatives by its member universities. Cornell was recognized for its interdisciplinary farmworker research and...
  • Agriculture

Farmworker initiatives earn community engagement honor

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Cornell was recognized for its interdisciplinary farmworker research and collaboration initiatives, which collectively benefit thousands of farmworkers in 40 counties across New York state and beyond. The work began with the Cornell Farmworker...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture