CALS alumnus leads plan to build school in Zambian village

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In a village called Masopo in Zambia’s Choma province, 40 children could not enroll in the first-grade this year because the only school did not have space to educate them. Those children are among at least 200 shut off from an education in a...
Building site for a new classroom building in Masopo, Zambia

CALS organizers earn Tompkins County tourism recognition

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A Cornell University food security conference held in October brought around 700 people from more than 60 countries to Ithaca to confront the global challenges of providing reliable and healthy food to a booming human population. Impacts from...
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Research project ripe for fruit quality breakthrough

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It is one of life’s little disappointments: that piece of fruit so fresh in the grocery store turns soft and withered in only a few days, and an anticipated snack ends up as garbage instead. Multiply that scenario millions of times and add with...
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Southern Tier $500M economic award to be boon for Cornell

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The Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council has won $500 million over the next five years in New York’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative, with Cornell involved in about $100 million worth of key projects funded by the grant. Cornell...
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Holly Lange receives NYSAES Outstanding Employee Award

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Holly Lange, a plant pathology technician in the School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS), was named the 2015 NYSAES employee of the year at the annual station banquet Dec. 5. A 16-year veteran of the station, Lange was praised for her work...
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Vegetable storage expert James Russell Hicks dies

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James Russell Hicks, an expert in vegetable storage and post-harvest physiology, died Nov. 26. He was 78. Hicks’ career was dedicated to retaining the nutrition, flavor and consumer appeal of horticultural crops from field to plate. He is most...
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Thanksgiving hasn’t changed much since the 1950s

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Think your Thanksgiving meal must be richer, fattier and far unhealthier than the food your grandparents ate in the trimmer days of yore? Turns out that doesn’t seem to be true. Analyses by the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in CALS’ Charles H...
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For men, eating to excess might be eating to impress

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Men have a reputation of doing just about anything to show off in front of women, no matter how seemingly absurd. That effort to impress apparently extends to their eating habits: A new Cornell study shows men eat significantly more food when in...
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Robin Bellinder, leader in weed management, dies

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Robin Bellinder, professor of plant science and a national and international leader in weed management, died Nov. 13 in Ithaca, New York, at age 70. She joined the Cornell University Horticulture Department in 1984 as assistant professor, with a...
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Facts in Five

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Fundamental research, from the inner workings of cells to the physics of food, builds towards major leaps forward in agriculture, medicine and technology. Visit the stacks with this sample of recent findings translated into succinct science...

Cornell Dairy goes big for President Garrett’s inauguration

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The creation of a unique ice cream flavor honoring an incoming Cornell University president has been a longstanding Cornell Dairy tradition. The effort to mark the tenure of President Elizabeth Garrett comes with a twist: the largest single...

Creating a Path to Purpose

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By Angie Kamath ‘97 The best analogy I can draw to how I have managed my career is to liken it to a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. I recently discovered this children’s book genre with my 7-year-old daughter, and it strikes me as the perfect...

Gifts spur faculty recruitment in Dyson

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What started with a promise—and a challenge—recently delivered six new faculty positions for the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. The latest $6.5 million in gifts from three families has raised the total number of...
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Gift honors Emeritus Professor James White

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James White ’39, Ph.D. ’44, first set foot in Stocking Hall when he arrived on campus as a freshman in 1934 to study bacteriology. As faculty member in the former Department of Dairy Industry, he enriched the building with his expertise in milk...