Hatfield Lecture 2021 Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 12:30pm to 1:00pm Join Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack for a conversation about a future where the boundaries between tech, work, and social issues dissolve. Listen in on Wednesday, March 24 at 12:30 p.m. EDT. This event is free and open to…

Thanks to a gift from the Microsoft Corporation, Cornell’s Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society and the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture are pleased to announce a call for proposals for Azure cloud computing grants. The grants can support computational and data intensive research across a variety of domain areas; we aim to…

We’ve invited the cream of the crop to this hackathon and that includes you!  Graduate and undergraduate students, any major, any year, any school- everyone is welcome! Thoughtfully selected students from the top 5 agriculture schools in the world are also attending!  Yes, you heard correct! This is truly an international event with the potential…

Agricultural research has fostered productivity growth, but the historical influence of anthropogenic climate change on that growth has not been quantified. We develop a robust econometric model of weather effects on global agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) and combine this model with counterfactual climate scenarios to evaluate impacts of past climate trends on TFP. Our…

Despite more than a decade of intensive urbanization, Nepal remains heavily dependent on agriculture for domestic food security, rural livelihoods, and for the generation of employment opportunities in aligned service industries.  At the same time, agricultural productivity remains, by many metrics, the lowest in the South Asia region.  Development of the agri-food sector has benefited…

COVID-19 update; this seminar is now zoom-only. Please use the zoom link:  https://cornell.zoom.us/j/97636298817?pwd=a2ZLQlBqbHJ5dXJ1QjZpeEl3cjRpdz09 with password: cida Plant pathogens and pests have coevolved with their hosts in endless cycles of light and darkness: day and night.  During this time, they have evolved to use light to direct their growth and development.  We are just beginning to now take…

Register Here! The Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) will host it’s 4th annual workshop: Connecting dots in DA: from basic concept to to digital solutions. This year the event will be virtual and features presentations by our Research Innovation Fund (RIF) recipients, a keynote in digital solutions for dairy from Victor Cabrera and Michael Ferris, the researchers behind the Dairy Brain,…

COVID-19 update; this seminar is now zoom-only. Please use the zoom link:  https://cornell.zoom.us/j/97636298817?pwd=a2ZLQlBqbHJ5dXJ1QjZpeEl3cjRpdz09 with password: cida Yu Jiang is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences in Horticulture at Cornell AgriTech.  His research focuses on the system engineering and data analytics for specialty crops and involves interdisciplinary innovation among engineering, computer science, and plant…

COVID-19 update; this seminar is now zoom-only. Please use the zoom link:  https://cornell.zoom.us/j/97636298817?pwd=a2ZLQlBqbHJ5dXJ1QjZpeEl3cjRpdz09 with password: cida Wendy Ju is an Associate Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science field at Cornell University. Her work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can…

Fall 2020 Antimicrobial Resistance Seminar Series