Global Development Ph.D. project explores renewable energy, political upheaval

News

In the summer of 2021, a convergence of political, financial, and infrastructural crises in Lebanon led to severe fuel shortages. Without the diesel necessary to run both the state’s power plants and private backup generators, the country was...
  • Global Development Section
  • Energy
  • Global Development
City Skyline Under White Sky

NY VT Corn Silage Program enhances purchasing power for farmers

Field Note

Joe Lawrence is the Dairy Forage System Specialist for Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science PRO-DAIRY. Here he provides insight into the research and extension work accomplished by PRO-DAIRY to evaluate the quality of feeds available on the market for dairy farmers.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
corn field

Seminar series critiques structural inequalities of international development

News

In its inaugural year, the Critical Development Studies seminar series opens a space for scholars and students to analyze international development practices and their impacts on social well-being, food systems and environmental justice. Housed...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

Cornell-inspired NY soil law buoys climate-change resilience

News

New York growers will get a sustainable boost this planting season from the new Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Act – backed up by Cornell research – and signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Development
  • Crops
  • Soil
Two hands holding some soil

Behind the scenes of running a greenhouse with Kundan Moktan

Field Note

Did you always dream of managing greenhouses? My original career aspiration was to be a wildlife biologist, but life had different plans. I was born and raised in Nepal and came to the U.S. to go to Keuka College. While I was working on my...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science

Frozen spawn could heat up shellfish industry efficiency

News

The $8.8 million dollar aquaculture industry in New York state depends on shellfish hatcheries for seed stock every year. But spawning in conventional hatchery operations produces more larvae than can be used for seeding—causing hatchery...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York Sea Grant Institute
  • Agriculture
  • Food
Nine day old oyster larvae

Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms

News

Jura Liaukonyte, associate professor at Dyson, and colleagues tracked ad viewership using tools that, instead of just monitoring the television, measured actual viewer presence in the room, and focal attention on the screen.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Communication
A TV and a couch

CALS enhances strategies to recruit, retain diverse faculty, students

Spotlight

CALS highlights some of the strategies the college and its community members are adopting to improve diversity in faculty, staff and student recruitment and retention.
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
A student working in the lab holding a petri dish

Volunteer scientists change opinions about vaccines

News

Vaccination Conversations with Scientists, a group of more than 100 Cornell scientist volunteers educating the public about vaccines, is reporting success in shifting unvaccinated people’s beliefs about the shots.
  • Department of Entomology
  • Behavior
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Medicine
From left, Ari Broad, Rachael Skye, Beth Rhoades, Scarlett Lee, Kara Rode Webber and Kara Fikrig standing on stairs in front of a Cornell building.

Cornell land technologies workshop opens for applications

News

The “ Land Technologies: Interrogating Tools of Governance in the Colonial Present ” workshop, to be held in person from August 8-12 at Cornell University, will provide pre-tenure scholars from any university an opportunity to explore new...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Aerial view of rural industrial landscape

Club helps underrepresented animal science students thrive

Field Note

According to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Education in 2019, nearly 75 percent of all animal science graduates from U.S. colleges and universities were white. Cornell’s Minority Animal Science Students (MASS) club aims to address this disparity by encouraging the success of underrepresented minority students inside and outside the classroom. Started in 2016, MASS is led by student president Brandon Garcia ’23 and faculty adviser Kristan Foster Reed, assistant professor in Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science. We connected with Garcia, Reed and former board member Amanda Cheung ’21 to learn more about the club and its significance to the department.
  • Animal Science
Club meeting screengrab