Search for News & Stories

Farmworker initiatives earn community engagement honor

News

July 5, 2019

Given by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), the award recognizes extraordinary community outreach initiatives by its member universities. Cornell was recognized for its interdisciplinary farmworker research and...

Agriculture

Farmworker initiatives earn community engagement honor

News

July 5, 2019

Cornell was recognized for its interdisciplinary farmworker research and collaboration initiatives, which collectively benefit thousands of farmworkers in 40 counties across New York state and beyond. The work began with the Cornell Farmworker...

Cornell Cooperative Extension
Agriculture

Plant breeding project gives East African farmers better leafy green option

News

June 27, 2019

Phillip Griffiths of Cornell AgriTech has a special connection in East Africa that’s improving the humble collard green to help smallholder farmers—and their communities—live and eat better.

Researchers and farmers pose for a picture

Cornell program celebrates 50 years of nutrition education

News

June 26, 2019

Nutrition educators from across New York state joined Cooperative Extension staff and university faculty June 17-18 for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.

Cornell Cooperative Extension
Food
Health + Nutrition

USDA awards $1.8M to Cornell for packaging, beverage concentrate research

News

June 26, 2019

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded $1.8 million to two Cornell food science research projects.

Food

Dairy food science program promotes safety, quality

News

June 24, 2019

The Cornell Dairy Foods Extension certificate program run by the Department of Food Science in CALS helps industry people learn the ins and outs of product safety and quality.

Food

CALS, eCornell, specialty food group team up for training

News

June 24, 2019

To keep up with a growing demand for specialty foods, a new online certificate training program for buyers has been developed by eCornell, CALS and the Specialty Food Association.

Carrots that were recently pulled from the ground

Summer Scoop is hard to top – unless it’s with sprinkles

News

June 21, 2019

Summertime means sunshine, warmth and outdoor fun. And for the staff, faculty and students of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, it means free ice cream at Summer Scoop.

Cornell AgriTech’s graduate students foster local interest in agricultural science

News

June 21, 2019

SAGES, an organization of postdoctoral associates and graduate students at Cornell AgriTech, is celebrating its 10th year of offering scholarships to area high school students.

Four on faculty receive Carpenter Advising Awards

News

June 20, 2019

Four faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising.

Two women laugh while sitting at a table

Program expands to help Latin American growers

News

June 19, 2019

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Produce Safety Alliance has recently expanded its efforts in order to help Latin American growers adhere to U.S. federal safety regulations.

Working walking through field with boxes

Partnership aims to improve food security in Latin America

News

June 19, 2019

Cornell University and the Core Foundation have signed a five-year Memorandum of Agreement to explore new ways to promote food security and agricultural innovation in Latin America.

Gender-sensitive farmer training program transforms Kenya’s rural households

News

June 18, 2019

Gender trainings sponsored by Cornell’s Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat project are changing attitudes in East Africa and empowering women to take greater control of household farming activities.

Cross-class collaboration combines cloud computing with ag

News

June 17, 2019

In a new collaboration, students from Dairy Herd Management teamed up with students in Topics in Cloud Computing to learn how to work together to develop the kinds of digital tools that could reshape farming.

Scientists unearth green treasure – albeit rusty – in the soil

News

June 14, 2019

Cornell engineers may have found an environmental treasure trove – rusty though it may be – buried in the soil beneath farmers’ feet.

Lab of Ornithology debuts its first feature film

News

June 14, 2019

“Bird of Prey,” the first feature documentary produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, was released to the public June 13. It tells the story of the great Philippine eagle, the largest and rarest bird of prey in the world.

Awards fund innovations in digital agriculture

News

June 14, 2019

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.

Wolfe offers ag fixes to ‘complex, severe’ climate change

News

June 14, 2019

David Wolfe, professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, told a congressional committee in a hearing on agricultural resiliency that climate change impacts have been more complex and severe than scientists had forecast three decades ago.

David Wolfe testifying before a Congressional Subcomittee

3M and Cornell Partner to Develop Environmental Monitoring Handbook

News

June 13, 2019

3M Food Safety and CALS announce today they have collaborated – together and with a team of other industry experts – on a comprehensive handbook to help food and beverage manufacturers build and implement environmental monitoring programs.

Empire apple breeder Roger Way dies at 100

News

June 12, 2019

Roger Way, Ph.D. ’53, professor emeritus of pomology and world-renowned apple breeder, died June 2 in State College, Pennsylvania. He was 100 years old.