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Graduate Student Patricia MacQueen

Patricia MacQueen Wins Pretigious FINESST Award

Patricia MacQueen (Geological Sciences) was one of only 14% of applicants selected to receive a 3-year NASA fellowship worth $135,000 in the inaugural Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) competition that will partially fund her graduate student stipend, tuition, and research expenses. Please join us in congratulating Patricia! Read more

DeGaetano paper named ASHS Outstanding Extension Publication for 2018

The American Society of Horticulture Science's Board of Directors and the Awards Committee has named Cornell Professor Art DeGaetano's paper "Regional Influences of Mean Temperature and Variance Changes on Freeze Risk in Apples" the ASHS Outstanding Extension Publication Award winner for papers published in 2018. There will be an awardees ceremony and reception for all awardees in conjunction with the ASHS Annual Conference on July 22, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read more

TooWINDY mission launched for investigation of disruptive phenomenon

The TooWINDY mission of Principal Investigator David Hysell, was launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, on June 19, 2019. TooWINDY payloads investigated the stability of the post sunset equatorial F region ionosphere and the factors that predispose it to equatorial spread F (ESF), a spectacular phenomenon characterized by broadband plasma turbulence which degrades radio and radar signals at low magnetic latitudes. The goal of the investigation was to lay the foundation for a strategy to forecast this disruptive phenomenon. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) Long... Read more

Awards fund innovations in digital agriculture

Projects ranging from a soil-swimming robot that can sense conditions in the root zone in real time to computational models that can predict produce spoilage received seed funds from the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture’s new Research Innovation Fund. Read more