Stephen Ashley recognized for alumni service

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Stephen B. Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, served on Cornell’s board of trustees for 16 years and as a co-chair of the Far Above capital campaign for ten years, and this is his 45th consecutive year serving on the...

Graingers honored for service to Cornell

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Mary Maxon Grainger ’79, MPS ’87, and Bradley Grainger ’79 started serving Cornell as undergraduates, and they have never stopped. The CALS grads and longtime Ithacans are two of the six 2016 recipients of the...

Gift to Comm department funds research, career exploration

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Inspired by long Cornell ties and the Communication Department’s new state-of-the-art space in Mann Library, John Fraser ’83 and Amy Brown Fraser ’84 are donating $500,000 to Comm, the largest single donation...
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Coastlines and climate change

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 For two weeks this summer, the magnificent brick archways, colorful tile mosaics and stained glass of Barcelona’s Hospital de Sant Pau welcomed associate professor of landscape architecture Maria Goula and...
  • Landscape Architecture
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Shaping up therapeutics

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Researchers in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering have created a doughnut that could be good for diabetes treatment. Each only three millimeters across, the ring-shaped particles offer a...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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‘Greening’ the machinery of plant life

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Inside every plant leaf, emerald chloroplasts harness water, light and carbon dioxide and create energy, a fundamental reaction that both is life and gives life. One of its powerhouse enzymes is the target of...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science

How the butterfly got its spots

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 The wings of many butterflies, like the common buckeye, sport large round “eyespots” that help them attract mates and deflect would-be predators. Associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Robert...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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New faculty fellowships target fisheries and fermentations

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 New positions funded as part of the college’s Faculty Renewal Initiative will bring additional expertise in fisheries and fermentations to CALS. The Dwight A. Webster Faculty Fellowship in Fisheries and Aquatic...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Food Science

Celebrating President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes’ 90th

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 On a twilit summer evening in 1991, President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes played the back nine holes at the university golf course with alumnus Tim Vanini ‘91. “It was an awesome night for golf,” Vanini said....
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Jan Low wins World Food Prize

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Orange is the new hot color when it comes to nutrition and human health. And thanks to agricultural economist Jan Low, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’94, and her efforts introducing the orange-fleshed sweet potato into...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

Big Red on the greens at the Rio Olympics

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 When some of the world’s best golfers teed off in the 72-hole Olympic competition, they were navigating fairways and greens imagined and designed by a pair of Cornellians. Gil Hanse, MLA ’89, bested a field of...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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My Cornell Story: Pearl (Hsu) Pugh ’93

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Do you believe that things happen in life for a reason? I do. It seems that my journey from Cornell to a career in the pharmaceutical industry was meant to be. In 1989, I entered Cornell as a freshman in the...

Dilmun Hill Student Farm celebrates 20 years

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 It started as a simple idea: Cornell students learning about farming should have someplace to actually farm. Thus was born Dilmun Hill. In the 20 years since students tilled those first three acres, the farm...

Q&A with Toby Ault: Mitigating megadroughts

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By Ellen Leventry periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Toby Ault, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, caused a big splash in 2015 when he and co-authors from Columbia University and NASA published a paper showing that, because...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Cornell begins ‘a new era of business education’

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Cornell University has begun “a new era of business education” with the launch of the College of Business on July 1, Dean Soumitra Dutta said. The College of Business, comprising Cornell’s three accredited...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

$1M expands next-generation food technology at Geneva campus

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Building on its capacity as a center for food product development and food safety innovation, Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., is poised to expand its food development...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Institute for Food Safety
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Student life: After class

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Daniel Abaraoha ‘18 Applied Economics & Management If you pass Daniel Abaraoha on the Ag Quad and he’s looking down, he’s not downcast—he’s likely studying your footwear. Abaraoha is a shoe-in for most...

Tech brings value to vineyards

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Each morning, the same question greets Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory Director Terry Bates from his office white board: What are you doing for the grape growers? This summer, the answer has...
  • Lake Erie Research and Extension Lab
  • Food Science
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CALS in Conversation

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 “With CRISPR, literally overnight what had been the biggest frustration of my career turned into an undergraduate side project. It was incredible.” Robert Reed, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary...

Pollinator Protectors

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Foraging for food in the flowers of crops—and in the process pollinating crops from apples to zucchini—bees are essential to billions of dollars in annual agricultural production worldwide, and $500 million in...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Pollinators
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