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Newly discovered pathogen in NY apples causes bitter rot disease

July 6, 2020 sarah Jonas Agriculture, Apples, Fruit, Fungi, Molecular Biology, New York, Pathogens, PLANT SCIENCES

In a study of New York state apple orchards, Cornell University plant pathologists have identified a new fungal pathogen that causes bitter rot disease in apples.

Announcement

Department of Energy awards $3.15 million to Argonne to support collaborations with industry

July 2, 2020 sarah Jonas Artificial Intelligence, Ceramics, Colorado, Combustion Engineering, Connecticut, Cooperative Research And Development Agreements (CRADAs), Heat Transfer and Combustion, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nanomaterials, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nuclear Reactors, Ohio, public-private partnerships, tribology, Washington, Wisconsin

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $33 million in funding for 82 projects aimed at advancing commercialization of promising energy technologies and strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Laboratories and private-sector companies.

Research Results

COVID-19 Incidence in New York Higher Among Non-White Adults

June 18, 2020 sarah Jonas Antibody, antibody testing, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health, New York, Pandemic, Public Health, Research

Recent research by the University at Albany and the New York State Department of Health shows that over 2 million adults in New York were infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, through late March 2020.

Feature

Cornell experts offer advice for reopening craft beverage tasting rooms

June 11, 2020 sarah Jonas BEER, Business, Cider, Coronavirus, COVID-19, New York, WINE

The tasting rooms of New York state’s craft beverage industry are beginning to open up. Cornell University experts offer best practices on how reopen safely in the era of COVID-19.

Announcement

Grant to support research into grape downy mildew

June 11, 2020 sarah Jonas Agriculture, Fungicides, Grapes, New York, Plant Disease, Vineyards

A project led by Kaitlin Gold, assistant professor of plant pathology and plant microbe-biology at Cornell AgriTech, to study grape downy mildew has received a $100,000 USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant.

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Rutgers Expert Can Discuss Family’s 43-Year Backyard Bird Citizen Science Project

June 8, 2020 sarah Jonas backyard birds, Birds, Citizen Science, Climate, Climate Change, Migration, New Jersey, New York, NJ, Research, Rutgers, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Science, Temperature

Feature

Using Wastewater to Track, Contain SARS-CoV-2

May 29, 2020 sarah Jonas corona virus testing, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Detection, Disease, Health, New York, Pandemic, Public Health, RNA, SARS-CoV-2, Virus, Wastewater

Researchers took a novel approach to tracking the virus that causes COVID-19 that promises to be cost effective and ensure privacy by using a method that surveils for the virus in a local’s untreated wastewater facilities.

Feature

Cornell researcher advises NY State Senate on veterans outdoor act

May 13, 2020 sarah Jonas Mental Health, Nature, New York, Veterans

A Cornell University senior research associate served as a consultant to members of the New York State Senate on the Outdoor Rx Act, a bill that seeks to make it easier for veterans to access New York state’s scenic and restorative outdoor spaces.

Announcement

Researchers to explore perennial grains with $1.77M grant

May 13, 2020 sarah Jonas Agriculture, New York, U.S. Department Of Agriculture

A Cornell University researcher is part of a multi-institution team helping upstate New York organic farmers grow and increase profitability of perennial grain crops, which can be planted once and will yield grain for multiple years.

Feature

Cornell leads statewide effort to provide masks for incarcerated inmates

May 13, 2020 sarah Jonas Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health, Incarceration, Masks, New York

Rob Scott, director of Cornell Prison Education Program, has organized 14 New York colleges and universities to provide masks for every person incarcerated in the state – nearly 43,000 people.

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