Faculty build network of community-engaged teachers, scholars

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From teaching food science at the Ithaca Farmers Market to researching how youth feel about their race and ethnicity, this year’s Engaged Faculty Fellows are demonstrating the range of work that’s possible through community-engaged learning and research. The 2021-22 cohorts include 15 faculty from eight Cornell schools and colleges.
  • Global Development Section
  • Microbiology
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Upstate residents skittish on building utility-scale solar

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As New York prepares for a carbon-free energy future, public support for utility-scale solar farms is much lower than support for smaller solar projects, says new Cornell research.
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Behavior
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources
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Heart monitor, ‘tinder for musicians’ win Big Ideas Competition

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The seventh episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Laura Ciccone ‘11 and Taly Matiteyahu, co-founders of Blink, a voice-first blind speed dating app that helps people build meaningful connections based on genuine compatibility.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Optimizing digital solutions to combat striga infestations

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Sorghum growers across Africa’s dry-land regions face a common, relentless foe — striga. This parasitic plant attacks the root of millets like sorghum, devastating the plant’s yield and endangering food security for rural communities which...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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SUNY Morrisville pilots Cornell-developed nutrient mass balance curriculum

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This past spring, undergraduate students at SUNY Morrisville in Dr. Jennifer Gilbert Jenkins’ Soil Fertility course connected classroom knowledge about soil health and sustainability with actual farm assessments. They utilized the Nutrient Mass...
  • Animal Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
NMSP team at SUNY Morrisville

Choline during pregnancy impacts children’s sustained attention

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Seven-year-old children performed better on a challenging task requiring sustained attention if their mothers consumed twice the recommended amount of choline during their pregnancy, a new Cornell study has found.
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Five ways to make sustainability a resolution

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Cornell experts from a variety of fields share their recommendations for individual actions – large and small – that can make an impact locally and globally.
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Behavior
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Planet
  • Natural Resources
  • Land
  • Climate Change
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Gene discoveries could lead to heartier, less gritty spinach

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A team of researchers from Boyce Thompson Institute and six Chinese universities has identified genes in spinach that regulate its concentration of oxalate, which is responsible for “spinach teeth,” as well as genes that help the plant combat downy mildew, a major disease of commercial crops.
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Food
  • Vegetables
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$10M project opens pathways for more pest resilient food options in Asia

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The Feed the Future Insect-Resistant Eggplant Partnership is funded by a five-year $10 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Plants
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PRO-DAIRY welcomes Kirsten Workman

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PRO-DAIRY welcomes Kirsten Workman as a Nutrient Management and Environmental Sustainability Specialist, beginning in January 2022.
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
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Summer Scholars program set to boost DEI, digital ag efforts

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Cornell AgriTech’s Summer Research Scholars Program is increasing the number of underrepresented student participants and boosting expertise in digital agricultural technology, thanks to a grant of nearly $500,000 from the National Institute of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Department of Entomology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Lydia Young ’21: SUNY Morrisville student tackles dairy sustainability

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On December 17th, 2021, Lydia Young graduated from SUNY Morrisville with a focus on dairy management and agricultural mechanics. Throughout the summer and fall semester of 2021, Young participated in an internship program with the Nutrient...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
Lydia and NMSP team