State supports food processing tech with $600,000 in funding

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At a Sept. 14 press conference, New York State Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R-54th Dist., announced $600,000 in state funds to bring a new food processing technology to Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) in Geneva, N.Y...
  • Food Science
  • Food

Understanding What's Underfoot

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Daily, we tread on one of the most complex and crucial parts of the ecosystem: the soil. It’s much more than dirt and rocks. Home to a quarter of the planet’s biodiversity, the earth below us holds a densely packed universe where microbes, fungi...
  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Department of Entomology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Forage and Fuel: Feeding the Global Appetites

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By the middle of this century, the global population is estimated to reach 9 billion. There will not be just more mouths to feed: Demand will grow for animal feed, for land on which to grow feed and food, and for energy to produce it all. What...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Global Development
  • Horticulture

Dean's Message

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“I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can’t imagine having a better life.” Barbara McClintock ’23, M.A. ’25, Ph.D. ‘27 I recently came across this quote from Dr. McClintock, a CALS alumna, professor, geneticist, and Nobel...

Cornell research battles shrub willow leaf rust

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Just as shrub willow has garnered national interest as a key sustainable bioenergy crop, a pervasive fungus has threatened to undermine its potential as a stable addition to the portfolio of renewable energy sources. A Cornell University...
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Cornell study says soda, junk food not why we’re fat

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Indulgences like sodas and junk foods have long been blamed as the prime culprits responsible for worrying obesity trends across the United States. But a new analysis by a pair of Cornell University researchers suggests that for most people...

Deborah Streeter named honorary member of Sphinx Head Society

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Cornell University’s oldest senior honor society has three new honorary members, including a prominent professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Deborah Streeter, the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of...
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New Director Named for Undergraduate Biology

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Sparks is returning to the faculty of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, where he is a professor. “I have loved working with the staff of the Office of Undergraduate Biology and am very proud of the things we have been able to...
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DiTommaso Wins Crop Science Teaching Award

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Professor DiTommaso is a professor in Soil & Crop Sciences section in the School of Integrative Plant Science and the Richard C. Call Director of Agricultural Sciences. He currently teaches two undergraduate courses and one graduate course...
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Rakow receives APGA Award of Merit

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Donald Rakow, Associate Professor, Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, and former director of Cornell Plantations, received the American Public Gardens Association’s 2015 Award of Merit at the APGA’s 39th Annual Conference...
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Fungi essential for land plants live with mysterious bacteria

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Soil fungi colonize roots and provide essential nutrients for the majority of the world’s land plants, but new research sheds light on a class of bacteria found living within these fungi. A Cornell study, published in May in the Proceedings of...
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Keeping track of weight every day may tip scales in your favor

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For those wishing to lose weight and keep it off, here’s a simple strategy that works: step on a scale each day and track the results. A two-year Cornell study, recently published in the Journal of Obesity, found that frequent self-weighing and...
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Giovannoni is working to put the flavor back in your tomato

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Plant researchers and home gardeners learned about efforts to preserve ancient traits in the tomato at Mann Library’s Harvesting Heritage event June 5. CALS Plant Breeding and Genetics Professor James Giovannoni, a researcher at the Boyce...
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