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- "Exploring the Small Farm Dream" class -- HORT 2400
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2005 project
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This one-credit course is designed for students from any discipline who are interested in learning about the opportunities and challenges of farming on a relatively small-scale, including part-time farming in combination with another career.
- "Grape Listing" website helps growers market grapes to new buyers
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2008 project
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The Finger Lakes Grape Program’s "Grape Listing" website helped growers to market their grapes to new buyers in the midst of a significant grape surplus in the region in 2008.
- "Saranac" A new Cornell wheat variety with improved grain yield and disease resistance
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2008 project
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The Cornell Small Grains Breeding and Genetics Project has released a new soft white winter wheat variety called Saranac with exceptionally high grain yield, grain quality, and disease resistance. This variety is moderately resistant to fusarium...
- 100 Years of Changing Coastlines: NY/NJ Harbor from a Birds Eye View
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2008 – 2010 project
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Using multi-date maps and aerial photographs, changes in the New York harbor shorelines and wetlands specifically, Environmental Protection Agency New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary Plan habitat acquisition and restoration sites were explored by...
- 2007 Impacts of the NYS IPM Field Crops Pest Report
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2007 project
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The purpose of the NYS Field Crop Weekly Pest Report is to provide timely pest information to field crop extension educators and crop consultants. The report compiles weekly pest and crop observations collected by field crop extension personnel...
- 2008 Annual Conference for NY agricultural educators
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2007 project
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The professional development conference for agricultural educators provides activity based workshops that address the needs of our constantly changing agricultural and agri-science programs. This annual conference with innovative sessions challenges...
- 2009 Cornell Strategic Marketing Conference
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2009 project
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The 2009 Cornell Strategic Marketing Conference, sponsored by the Agricultural Marketing and Management Program Work Team (PWT), focused on educating agribusiness industry stakeholders about new and innovative marketing practices and tools and...
- A cell biologist's view of non-Newtonian physics
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2008 project
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Many problems in classical mechanics are solved by assuming that friction is negligible. At velocities close to the speed of light, however, friction is never negligible as a consequence of the dilatant optical molasses that results from the...
- A framework to value demand response and price response in electricity markets
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2009 project
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A conceptual framework was developed to describe how capacity supply is influenced by programs that allow customers to express their demand for reliability. The framework demonstrated that if the demand for reliability is not inelastic, at least...
- A light microscopist's model of a photon
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2008 project
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After centuries of struggling to understand the wave and corpuscular aspects of light, the two aspects were combined in the quantum theory of radiation by Albert Einstein. According to Einstein's quantum hypothesis, the corpuscular properties of...