Rev: Ithaca Startup Works puts new entrepreneurs through their paces Rev: Ithaca Startup Works puts new entrepreneurs through their paces
Laura Reiley, Cornell Chronicle

Rev: Ithaca Startup Works puts new entrepreneurs through their paces

Over 10 weeks, 22 teams of would-be entrepreneurs developed products ranging from multilingual children’s toys to innovative greenhouse hoops for small-scale farmers.

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$10M gift from Seneca Foods will support the Cornell Food Venture Center
Laura Reiley
Jul 25, 2024

$10M gift from Seneca Foods will support the Cornell Food Venture Center

The gift from the Seneca Foods Foundation will helps food producers of all sizes bring their products to market.

Five Cornell alums headed to Paris for Olympics
Tom Fleischman
Jul 25, 2024

Five Cornell alums headed to Paris for Olympics

Wrestler Kyle Dake ’13, rower Michael Grady ’19, cyclist/triathlete Taylor Knibb ’20, rower Sorin Koszyk ’20 and thrower Rudy Winkler ’17 are the Cornellians who’ll represent the U.S. in Paris at the Olympic Games, beginning July 26.

Invasive spotted lanternfly detected in Finger Lakes vineyard
Jul 23, 2024

Invasive spotted lanternfly detected in Finger Lakes vineyard

The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets identified the invasive pest in Romulus, New York, following reports from Cornell’s New York State Integrated Pest Management Program.

Ag solution can boost Senegal’s economy while battling parasite
Blaine Friedlander
Jul 23, 2024

Ag solution can boost Senegal’s economy while battling parasite

Cornell and global researchers are finding ways to control disease-carrying aquatic plants in Senegal by turning the flora into inexpensive compost or livestock feed – and helping the economy.

Aguilar-Carreño and van der Meulen named associate vice provosts in Research & Innovation
J. Edward Anthony
Jul 22, 2024

Aguilar-Carreño and van der Meulen named associate vice provosts in Research & Innovation

Hector Aguilar-Carreño and Marjolein van der Meulen join Natalie Bazarova, who was appointed to the role in 2023, to support research communities and core facilities, labs, institutes and centers that span colleges and campuses.

Digital murals to dental clinics: Einhorn Center grants support community-based projects
Ashlee McGandy
Jul 18, 2024

Digital murals to dental clinics: Einhorn Center grants support community-based projects

The Einhorn Center for Community Engagement recently award Engaged Opportunity Grants to 10 university-community project teams. The grants provide up to $5,000 to Cornell faculty and staff to include undergraduate students in community-engaged learning opportunities.

Exhibition highlights overlooked colonial Latin American art
David Nutt
Jul 18, 2024

Exhibition highlights overlooked colonial Latin American art

“Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas,” opening July 20 at the Johnson Museum, brings a nuanced view to a complicated period in Latin American art, and it is doing so with the help of student curators.

Fish biodiversity benefits nutrition, particularly for lower income people
Krishna Ramanujan
Jul 18, 2024

Fish biodiversity benefits nutrition, particularly for lower income people

Households in Cambodia caught and consumed a far more diverse array of fish than they sold at market, highlighting how biodiversity loss might affect people’s nutrition, especially for those with lower incomes. 

CCE helps Erie and Lewis counties weather storm disasters
Jul 17, 2024

CCE helps Erie and Lewis counties weather storm disasters

A network of staff and experts in Cornell Cooperative Extension offices across the state mobilize to help and share information after weather emergencies.

E. coli variant may cause antimicrobial resistance in dogs, humans
Krishna Ramanujan
Jul 16, 2024

E. coli variant may cause antimicrobial resistance in dogs, humans

Researchers studying antimicrobial-resistant E. coli – the leading cause of human death due to antimicrobial resistance worldwide – have identified a mechanism in dogs that may render multiple antibiotic classes ineffective.

Mussels helping mayflies flex in return to Oneida Lake
Blaine Friedlander
Jul 16, 2024

Mussels helping mayflies flex in return to Oneida Lake

Quagga mussels – the deleterious invasive species from Eastern Europe seen throughout Oneida Lake – may provide an unexpected benefit for the life cycle of mayflies: They’re flourishing.

Adapting California’s lessons to climate crises in NYS
Blaine Friedlander
Jul 15, 2024

Adapting California’s lessons to climate crises in NYS

Alistair Hayden brings his West Coast experience in wildfires and earthquakes to help New York communities maintain health and become more disaster resilient in the face of climate change.

Program develops inclusive leaders
Katya Hrichak
Jul 15, 2024

Program develops inclusive leaders

The summer 2024 Colman Inclusive Leadership Program helped 33 doctoral students enhance their leadership skills through readings, interactive group activities, case studies and discussion through the three-day immersive experience.

State invests $1 million in Hudson Valley Research Lab
Jul 11, 2024

State invests $1 million in Hudson Valley Research Lab

The Hudson Valley Research Laboratory in Highland, New York, a partnership between Cornell AgriTech and area growers, is receiving $1 million in capital funding from the state for improvements that will take the research facility into the future.

Cornell dashboard estimates mortality risk of wildfire smoke
Blaine Friedlander
Jul 10, 2024

Cornell dashboard estimates mortality risk of wildfire smoke

To help local emergency managers assess danger, Cornell researchers have created the Mortality Estimation Tool to map predicted, smoke-attributed mortality statistics in near-real time.

Beekeeping, hydropower: Cornell Atkinson awards nearly $1M in grants
Jul 10, 2024

Beekeeping, hydropower: Cornell Atkinson awards nearly $1M in grants

Cornell Atkinson’s annual Academic Venture Fund will provide nearly $1 million in seed funding to support research teams across five colleges and 11 departments, many with key external partnerships.

Cornell Keynotes podcast: Combining right brain and left brain thinking as inventors, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs
Torie Anderson
Jul 9, 2024

Cornell Keynotes podcast: Combining right brain and left brain thinking as inventors, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs

Richard Cahoon, a professor at the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, joins the Cornell Keynotes podcast to explain how we can combine the creative and analytical parts of our minds to give our ideas life and longevity.

Teens explore potential career options at annual 4-H event
Jul 9, 2024

Teens explore potential career options at annual 4-H event

Through conversations and hands-on learning opportunities, nearly 250 youth from across New York state learned about different career paths at the annual 4-H Career Explorations Conference, hosted by Cornell and New York State 4-H.

Art, stories, and tours celebrate plants and the Black experience
Sarah Fiorello
Jul 8, 2024

Art, stories, and tours celebrate plants and the Black experience

Seeds of Survival and Celebration: plants and the Black experience, returns for its third and final year at Cornell Botanic Gardens. This garden installation and exhibit celebrates the ways in which enslaved Africans used plants for culinary and medicinal purposes and that have contributed to the rich cultural fabric of America today. Visitors can explore more than 70 plants, deepen their knowledge through audio tours, view a gallery exhibit of photos of traditional African American gardens, and view exhibits on the how plants made their way to the Americas on slave ships and their enduring legacy in food, medicine, and culture. 

More carbon in soil can control weeds, in some cases
Krishna Ramanujan
Jul 3, 2024

More carbon in soil can control weeds, in some cases

Cornell researchers have tested an ecological tool in the fight to control weeds in silage soybean and corn fields: adding carbon to soil in the form of sawdust and rye hay.

Cornell team hopes judges say ‘Yes!’ to Nonna’s Nopales gnocchi
Jul 2, 2024

Cornell team hopes judges say ‘Yes!’ to Nonna’s Nopales gnocchi

Cornell IFT team goes to Chicago with their Nonna’s Nopales futuristic food product – gnocchi made from superfood cactus paddles.

Aspiring entrepreneurs get inspired at NYC event
Kathy Hovis
Jul 1, 2024

Aspiring entrepreneurs get inspired at NYC event

Panelists at the “How to Leap into Entrepreneurship” event talked the importance of networking, using their Cornell connections and experiences and developing an ability to handle failure.

Cornell inventors celebrated at cross-campus event
Catherine Yingzi Lin
Jul 1, 2024

Cornell inventors celebrated at cross-campus event

Cornell inventors are turning visionary ideas into tangible solutions to global challenges. Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing celebrated their achievements at its inaugural Bearers of Innovation event.

Dirty cooking fuels pose major threat to infants in India
Laura Reiley
Jun 27, 2024

Dirty cooking fuels pose major threat to infants in India

A new paper quantifies the impact of cooking fuel choice on indoor air pollution and early childhood mortality in India.

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