CALS leaders named to food security commission

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A trio of leaders from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) have been named to a new commission tasked with addressing domestic and global food security challenges and ensuring universal food security by 2050. Kathryn J. Boor, the...

Cornell microbial geneticist Stanley Zahler dies at 89

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Professor Emeritus Stanley Zahler, whose work during his 35-year Cornell career left a lasting imprint on the teaching of microbial genetics at the university, died April 26 in California. He was 89 years old. Zahler joined Cornell in 1959 as an...

Kenong Xu goes to Washington to collect research prize

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President Obama welcomed more than 100 leading scientists and engineers from across the country on May 5 to thank them for their work on some of the most challenging and complex issues in science and technology. Those individuals, including...
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Relationships at root of Cornell Vegetable Program’s reach

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Commercial vegetable grower Nelson Hoover does not own a car, a computer or a degree. In fact, the 28-year-old never attended high school. But for over a decade, Hoover, a member of the Groffdale Mennonite Conference in Penn Yan, New York, has...
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Minglin Ma wins Hartwell award for diabetes work

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Minglin Ma, assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has received a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which supports scientists pursuing biomedical research to advance children’s health. Ma...
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Boots on the farm: Helping military vets enter agriculture

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As a member of the Seabees, the U.S. Navy’s elite construction battalion, James Turrell spent seven years putting his blood, sweat and building expertise to work all over the world, including stops in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Fukishima Japan...
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New toolkit clarifies agricultural economic assessment

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The surge in consumer demand for local foods in recent years has prompted fresh investment in agricultural enterprises, from farmers expanding their marketing efforts to communities establishing new co-ops. But evaluating the economic impacts of...
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CALS expert improves juice, profits for co-op in Malawi

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The Mpamba Fruit Juice Producers Cooperative in Nkhata Bay, Malawi, has a track record of innovation, in the form of juices made from local mangos, oranges, tangerines and pineapples. The small, mostly female collective of 22 farmers had...
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Bryan Duff named Kaplan Faculty Fellow

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Bryan Duff, senior lecturer in the Horticulture Section, was one of two recipients of the 2016 Kaplan Family Faculty Fellowship in Service-Learning. He and Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana studies, were recognized at the 15th annual...
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Cornell dairy team wins international honors

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A team of Cornell animal science students can add a new line to their resumes: continental champions. Seniors Josh Landis, Kelsey Neckers, Greg Van Ravenswaay and Colleen Smith earned first-place honors in the North American Intercollegiate...
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Small bird tagging tech creates new ways to study animals

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Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology David Winkler found a needle in a haystack: three Ithaca tree swallows among 10 million or so overwintering in Florida this January. The coup was made possible by Winkler’s development of the first...
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Sue Fussell elected to the CHI Academy

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Congrats to Sue Fussell! The CHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. These are the principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the...
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Evolutionary biologist Rick Harrison dies at 70

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Richard “Rick” Harrison, Ph.D. ’77, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a pioneer in his field, died unexpectedly April 12 while visiting Lizard Island, Australia. Harrison was 70 years old. As a researcher whose expertise was both...
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Anurag Agrawal earns prestigious ecology award

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Anurag Agrawal, Cornell professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, entomology, and Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, has been named the Robert H. MacArthur Award winner from the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The...
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Mann Award winner studies switching process in cells

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Inside every plant and animal cell there is a Grand Central Station of sorts, called the Golgi complex, which ships proteins off to other parts of the cell via various pathways. Specific proteins are able to turn these pathways on and off, but...
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Cornell Dairy receives all clear to go kosher

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Though only 2 percent of the U.S. population is Jewish, more than 40 percent of packaged food and beverages in the U.S. were labeled as kosher in 2014, according to Lubicom Marketing Consulting. And now, the Cornell Dairyis on board, having...
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Rachel Bezner Kerr named an International Faculty Fellow

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Rachel Bezner Kerr, associate professor of development sociology, has been named an International Faculty Fellow for 2016–2019 by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Bezner Kerr’s research looks at the broad themes of sustainable...
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