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The Edison Awards™, named after the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, recognize some of the most innovative products and business leaders in the world. For the second consecutive year, Cargill is honored to win three 2024 Edison Awards™ for innovations in Smart Transportation, Health & Beauty Care Solutions and Social & Cultural Impact – Environmental Solutions.
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Cargill and BAR Technologies’ WindWings® innovation has been recognized as groundbreaking technology that introduces cutting edge wind propulsion to commercial shipping for the first time. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Innovations begin with innovators. Our teams are continuously reimagining what’s possible and laying the groundwork to deliver big and bold innovations in food and agriculture,” said Florian Schattenmann, Cargill’s chief technology officer and vice president of Innovation and Research & Development. “This recognition underscores the wonderful work from our teams and our purpose to nourish the world and deliver solutions that are better for our health, environment, and people.”
Cargill’s teams around the world innovate with purpose – harnessing the power of what’s possible to deliver lifechanging solutions that will positively impact the world today and for generations to come. Using insights to anticipate customer needs and partnering across the industry, the company’s 2,500 R&D experts along with teams around the world are delivering innovations with impact.
The following Edison Awards are examples of how the company is leading transformations at a global scale:
[GOLD] Smart Transportation: Cargill and BAR Technologies’ WindWings® innovation has been recognized as groundbreaking technology that introduces cutting edge wind propulsion to commercial shipping for the first time. Since her launch in August 2023, the world’s first dry bulk vessel retrofitted with WindWings®, the Pyxis Ocean, has so far reported average savings of 3 tonnes of fuel per day, reducing CO2 by nearly 10 tonnes per day.
[GOLD]Social & Cultural Impact – Environmental Solutions: Cargill’s 1000 Farmers Endless Prosperity program aims to improve farmers' welfare, enhance their productivity, and foster social and digital transformation in agriculture by promoting regenerative agricultural practices. Since its launch, it has benefitted over 6,000 farmers across 21 provinces in Türkiye, covering 70,000 hectares dedicated to corn, sunflower, and canola production. Participants receive free training, access to digital agricultural tools, and consulting services, empowering them to adopt sustainable practices effectively.
[BRONZE]Health & Beauty Care Solutions: BotaniDesign™105 is a plant-based alternative which can be used as a 1:1 replacement for petroleum jelly. This 100% naturally derived, plant-based, readily biodegradable alternative to petroleum jelly is highly moisturizing and can be included in a range of personal care products.
Together, these innovations show Cargill’s ability to apply more than a century of experience in the food and agriculture industry to innovate across a broad spectrum of challenges facing its customers and consumers.
All nominations are reviewed by the Edison Awards’ Steering Committee and an executive judging body. The panel is comprised of more than 2,000 senior business executives and academics from the fields of product development, design, engineering, science, marketing and education, as well as past winners.
For more information on the Edison Awards, please visit www.edisonawards.com.
About Cargill
Cargill is committed to providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions, and industrial products to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.
Our 160,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With 159 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing—today and for generations to come. For more information, visit Cargill.com and our News Center.
About The Edison Awards:
Established in 1987, the Edison Awards are dedicated to recognizing, honoring and fostering innovations and innovators. Named after Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), the annual competition honors excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design and innovation. Past award recipients include Jony Ive, Martha Stewart, Carmichael Roberts and companies leading in innovation including; Nest, now part of Google, AMD, Intel, Naqi, 3M and Cargill. In 2021, the Edison Awards introduced the inaugural Lewis Latimer Fellowship program designed to celebrate, connect and bring together a community of innovative Black thought leaders. For more information, visit www.edisonawards.com.
BotaniDesign™ 105 is a plant-based alternative which can be used as a 1:1 replacement for petroleum jelly. (Photo: Business Wire)
Cargill’s 1000 Farmers Endless Prosperity program aims to improve farmers' welfare, enhance their productivity, and foster social and digital transformation in agriculture by promoting regenerative agricultural practices. (Photo: Business Wire)
The number of people arrested in connection with protests on college campuses against the Israel-Hamas war has now topped 2,000. The Associated Press has tallied arrests at 35 schools since the protests began at Columbia University on April 17.
Student protests have popped up at many college and university campuses over the last two weeks. Some have led to agreements with administrators to consider the protesters demands. But more frequently they have led to arrests after demonstrators refused to disperse or vandalized campus property. More than 200 of the arrests were at the University of California, Los Angeles, where police finally cleared a large encampment early Thursday.
Currently:
— President Biden says ‘order must prevail’ to keep campus protests peaceful
— At least 2,000 arrested in campus protests around U.S., AP tally shows
— Eying campus protests, House passes bill to define criticism of Israel as antisemitic
— Timeline: How Columbia University's protest launched campus demonstrations around the U.S.
Here's the latest:
The University of Minnesota officials announced an agreement with pro-Palestinian protesters on Thursday to end their encampment on the Minneapolis campus. In exchange, representatives of the coalition of student organizations involved will get to address the university’s Board of Regents at their meeting May 10 to discuss their demands that the university divest its investments in Israel.
“While there is more work to do, and conversations are still planned with other student groups affected by the painful situation in Palestine, I am heartened by today’s progress,” Ettinger wrote.
Similar agreements have been made at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago, Rutgers University in New Jersey and Brown University in Rhode Island — apparently the first U.S. college to agree to such a demand.
A number of pro-Palestinian protests have popped up from France to South Africa to Mexico.
On Thursday, over tents popped up on the lawn of National Autonomous University of Mexico, the country’s most prestigious university.
The camp of about 50 students and activists was draped in Palestinian flags. Protesters organizing food and other logistics said they planned to camp out at least a week in solidarity with protests breaking out across the U.S.
“The student movement in the United States has given us a lot of hope," said Luna Martínez, a human rights lawyer who studied at the university.
The arrests tallied since the protests began include professors from Dartmouth and an Illinois university.
Dartmouth history professor Annelise Orleck could be seen in a video posted to the social platform X approaching police and being pulled away from a crowd and taken into custody Wednesday night.
A Dartmouth spokesperson confirmed the video and said the school had no intention of seeking Orleck’s exclusion from campus and is “taking every reasonable step to ensure she can continue teaching classes.”
History professor Steve Tamara from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville said he suffered nine broken ribs and a broken hand Saturday during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Washington University in St. Louis.
Bystander video shows Tamari appearing to be moving in to take video or pictures of protesters being detained when multiple officers roughly take him down. The video shows Tamari handcuffed with his arms behind him as officers drag his limp body toward a van, then drop him on the ground, face down.
Campus police referred questions to the university’s communications department, which did not respond to a request for comment.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, about two dozen protesters sat in the middle of a roadway blocking access to one of the main gates at Kirtland Air Force Base on Thursday, waving flags and vowing to “shut everything down” over U.S. military support for Israel in the war in Gaza.
Authorities did not make any arrests as several protesters chained themselves to one another with some anchored to buckets filled with concrete as they lined the street, blocking access to one of the base's main gates. Albuquerque police cordoned off streets in the area, isolating the protesters.
Base spokesperson Rob Smith said Kirtland supports citizens’ rights to peacefully assemble and protest and that base security would monitor the situation throughout the day. Meanwhile, the gate would remain closed indefinitely and people who work on the base were advised to use other routes.
Sixteen people — including five students — were arrested days earlier at the University of New Mexico just a few miles away after they occupied the campus’ student union building and caused damage inside.
Fordham University’s president has explained why they had New York police arrest 15 anti-war protesters on Wednesday.
Tania Tetlow said in a message to the Fordham community that most of the people who pushed inside a building and set up tents agreed to leave after being threatened with sanctions. Those who didn’t were arrested for misdemeanor trespassing.
Previous protests had been peaceful, mostly teach-ins and prayer vigils, she said, and Fordham remains committed to allowing student leaders to present their case about divestment and transparency to the trustees.
The decision to make arrests “was not about parsing the difference between protected political speech and threats, nor was it about the Middle East. This was only about the physical protection of the campus,” she said. “It comes down to this: Fordham students have a right to feel safe and to finish their exams. Period.”
Student protesters at the University of Vermont called Thursday for the school to cancel a commencement speech by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The protesters, some of whom have been camping out in tents on campus since Sunday, are also demanding that UVM divest from weapons manufacturers and Israeli companies.
UVM spokesperson Adam White said university leaders have heard all the students’ concerns. He said the school plans to disclose investments in its endowment by week's end, but not in response to the protesters.
Police cleared a library at Portland State University in Oregon that pro-Palestinian demonstrators had occupied since Monday. Officers said they made a dozen arrests, four of them students.
They found extensive graffiti on the walls inside the library as well as furniture stacked in barricades and caches of tools and paint balloons. Portland police say at least two of the arrests were made outside the library, where a crowd gathered. Protesters banged pots and pans and briefly blocked the entrance to a major freeway.
Barricades made of soccer goal posts, overturned tables, chairs and other items continued to obstruct the library entrance, and walls inside were spray-painted with graffiti.
California Republican leaders blasted university administrations, saying they failed to protect Jewish students and should have prevented campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war from escalating into “lawlessness and violence.”
They now call for the firing of leaders at universities such as UCLA and California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, where more than 30 were arrested early Tuesday. They're also pushing for a proposal that would cut pay for university administrations.
“We’ve got a whole lot of people in these universities drawing six-figure salaries and they stood by and did nothing,” Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher told reporters Thursday. “There does need to be accountability.”
Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones said students found responsible for violence should be disqualified from receiving state-funded financial aid.
Any such GOP proposals would need the approval of Democratic lawmakers, who hold supermajorities in both chambers at the state Capitol.
In New York, Stony Brook University officials said 29 people were arrested early Thursday morning, including students, faculty members and others not affiliated with the school. School administrators said the protests began peacefully but escalated to include intimidation, harassment and an encampment.
The University of Texas said Thursday that 17 people were arrested on criminal trespass charges Wednesday after demonstrators refused to comply with orders to take down an encampment built on the main walkway of the Dallas campus.
At the University of Pennsylvania and at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, officers lined up to separate opposing camps of demonstrators waving Israeli and Palestinian flags.
And bulldozers were scooping up bags of trash and dismantled tents at UCLA, where crowds swelled to more than 1,000 at a pro-Palestinian encampment before police finally cleared the area early Thursday.
Florida’s state university chancellor has ordered campus presidents to “take any necessary steps” to prevent disruption of graduation ceremonies by protestors.
The order covers the University of Florida, Florida State University, Central Florida University, Florida A&M University and eight others. Ten arrests were made at a pro-Palestinian rally at the University of South Florida on Tuesday after police deployed tear gas.
“We must protect the integrity of our commencement ceremonies and ensure the safety of our students,” Chancellor Ray Rodrigues wrote in a memo to presidents, adding that no ceremonies should be canceled or substantively modified.
President Joe Biden defended the right to peacefully protest on college campuses but said vandalism, violence, hate speech and other “chaos” has no part in a peaceful protest.
“Dissent is essential for democracy,” he said at the White House on Thursday. “But dissent must never lead to disorder.”
The Democratic president said the U.S. is neither an authoritarian nation that squashes dissent, nor a lawless country.
“We are a civil society and order must prevail,” Biden said. “We are a big, diverse, free-thinking and freedom-loving nation.”
Police arrested pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses across the country overnight, most notably at UCLA, where chaotic scenes played out early Thursday as officers in riot gear surged against a crowd of demonstrators and made arrests.
Police removed barricades and began dismantling demonstrators’ fortified encampment on campus after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave, some forming human chains as police fired flash-bangs to break up the crowds. Police bound the hands of many protesters with zip ties behind their backs and escorted them onto buses to the county jails reception center near downtown Los Angeles.
Officers moved in after spending hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse. A crowd of more than 1,000 had gathered in support, both inside a barricaded tent encampment and outside it. Protesters and police shoved and scuffled as officers encountered resistance. Video showed police pulling off helmets and goggles worn by some protesters as they were being detained.
Journalism’s highest awards are administered by Columbia University, where the Pulitzer Prize Board is praising the work of student journalists in covering campus protests around the country.
The board specifically recognized “the extraordinary real-time reporting” of student journalists at Columbia.
With other media blocked from entering the campus, these students became the eyes and ears for many as New York police arrested protesters.
“In the spirit of press freedom, these students worked to document a major national news event under difficult and dangerous circumstances at risk of arrest,” the board wrote.
Former President Donald Trump commended police who cleared pro-Palestinian protesters from college campuses as he arrived in court Thursday morning for another day of his criminal hush money trial.
“It’s a shame. I’m so proud of the New York’s finest. They’re great,” Trump told reporters after police cleared demonstrators who had taken over an academic building at Columbia University. “They did a job in Columbia and likewise in Los Angeles they did a really good job at UCLA.”
Trump, in his comments, blamed the protests on “the radical left,” which he has railed against for years.
A pro-Palestinian supporter waves a flag as pro-Palestinians and pro-Israel supporters hold opposing demonstrations at the McGill University campus, in Montreal, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP)
Tents and trash are left behind at the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment which was cleared by police overnight on the UCLA campus, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Police separate pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators on the outskirts of a protest encampment on the grounds of McGill University, in Montreal, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP)
Pro-Palestinian activists wave flags on the outskirts of a protest encampment on the grounds of McGill University, in Montreal, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP)
A pro-Israel supporter waves the Israeli flag in front of a police officer and a pro-Palestinian camp at the University of Pennsylvania encampment Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Philadelphia. (Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
Ahlam Abuawad, left, and Emily Simpson, listen to a speaker during a pro-Palestinian protest on the Dartmouth College Green in Hanover, N.H., on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (James M. Patterson/Valley News via AP)
Palestinian and Israeli supporters protest on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at the University of Pennsylvania encampment in Philadelphia. (Jose F. Moreno /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
A police officer stands under a Palestinian flag after a raid on an encampment on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A pro-Palestinian protester waves a Palestinian flag on the campus of Dartmouth College on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 in Hanover, N.H. (David Adkins via AP)
Police detain a demonstrator inside a pro-Palestinian encampment on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Police approach demonstrators inside a pro-Palestinian encampment on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators watch police activity behind a makeshift barricade on the UCLA campus Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The word "Peace" written by a anti-war protesters is displayed on the windows at Millar Library at Portland State University, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Protesters are taken into custody as law enforcement dismantle an encampment by pro-Palestinian students at the University of Texas at Dallas' Chess Plaza on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Richardson, Texas. (Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
Pro-Palestianian protesters gather near a main gate at Columbia University in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, just before New York City police officers cleared the area after a building was taken over by protesters earlier in the day. The building and a tent encampment were cleared during the operation. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Demonstrators walk in an encampment on the UCLA campus after clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Police face off with pro-Palestinian demonstrators inside an encampment on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Police enter an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Police break through a barrier set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
