150 Years of Plant Science at Cornell University

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Just in time for Charter Day, which marks Cornell’s 150th birthday … Through vintage images, explore the history of plant science at Cornell — the students, the faculty, the Nobel laureates and other leaders and more. Special thanks to Ed Cobb...

Ault to look back 150,000 years to see future of climate change

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By John Carberry You want climate change? Toby Ault will give you climate change. The Earth and Atmospheric Sciences assistant professor will take you through Ithaca’s past – from the depths of the coldest period of the past half million years...
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AIP sees new challenges, great potential in Native student recruitment

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By John Carberry What do you do when your portfolio of academics engaged in Indigenous Studies is among the best in North America, you have a first-of-its-kind residence hall that celebrates Native culture and is recognized around the globe, and...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
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Female microgrooves assists ‘microswimmer’ sperm

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In mammalian reproduction, sperm have a tough task: like trout swimming upstream, they must swim against a current through a convoluted female reproductive tract in search of the unfertilized egg. Many fertility studies focus on how fast sperm...
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Cornell remembers science education pioneer ‘Doc Rock’

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A memorial service is set for 2 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at Kendal at Ithaca for Verne N. Rockcastle, professor emeritus of education studies and teacher preparation, who died April 5 in Ithaca. The science educator, a member of the College of...
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Facts in Five: Bugging Out!

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Drawings by agricultural sciences major Olivia McCandless ’17 In October, the Department of Entomology celebrated the 150th anniversary of Cornell with the largest Insectapalooza to date. Meet some of the featured small but mighty creatures that...

Endnote: My Cornell Story

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Gerald A. Beechum, Jr. ‘96 Over 20 years ago as an agricultural economics major, I never could have imagined how Cornell’s vast resources would play a role in two key transitions in my professional life—beginning my first career in finance and...

$18.5 Million Grant to Boost Breeding of Global Staples

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To streamline the breeding of five staple crops—wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Cornell $18.5 million for a project that will put modular, open-source breeding software resources into the...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Food
  • Global Development

Implementing the CALS Strategic Plan 2014-15: an Update

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The new strategic plan defines priorities that will keep the college nimble, proactive and well positioned to meet the needs and aspirations of students and stakeholders for decades to come. Work around this year’s objectives is well underway in...

Harvest New York Bolsters Yogurt Industry

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Tristan Zuber, a dairy food processing and safety specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Harvest New York initiative, spent Feb. 26 in Albany promoting New York’s successful yogurt industry. Western New York Senators, led by former...
  • Food
  • Dairy

Help Wanted: Alumni Advisers

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From resume critiques to mock interviews, a pilot online advising platform is connecting alumni with students seeking to hone their job search skills. The Evisors program, launched in January for alumni and students of the Charles H. Dyson...

Two-Minute Commencement Speech

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We asked professor emeritus Kraig Adler for a succinct commencement speech, with only two minutes on the clock. Ready, set, go! One of my greatest joys as a Cornell professor has been to watch the remarkable transformation that undergrads...

Michael Schwerner ’61 Earns Posthumous Medal of Freedom

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Fifty years after civil rights worker Michael “Mickey” Schwerner ’61 was slain in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan, President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to his family Nov. 24 at the White House. A...

The Farm Behind the Drive-Through

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When ordering a Sausage McMuffin at McDonald’s, most of us are thinking about wherever we need to rush after our quick breakfast. Michael Thompson ’77 is thinking about every step of the supply chain that grew the food, processed and distributed...

Woodswoman Fund Honors Labastille

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By Celina Scott-Buechler ’18 Women have played a key role in conservation science since the founding of the field, and in the past century few played a larger role than the late author and scholar Anne LaBastille ’55, Ph.D. ’69. Her Thoreau...

May Berenbaum Wins 2014 National Medal of Science

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May Berenbaum, Ph.D. ’80, is sympathetic to those who fear spiders, beetles and other creepy-crawlies. As a young person, she too fled from the sight of insects. But as an undergraduate biology major at Yale, she discovered one semester that the...

Dream Big, Start Small

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By Rose Linehan, EN ’17 ​ María Pacheco, M.P.S. ’90, is a Fulbright scholar, consultant to the United Nations Foundation, and founder of Wakami, a company changing the way craftspeople enter the international market. Pacheco’s family moved to...

Shrewd Investments Ahead

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Last year, fellow alumni elected Liz Everett ’97 and Mike Troy ’81 to serve four-year terms on Cornell’s Board of Trustees, the governing body responsible for charting the university’s academic and financial direction. Though Everett and Troy...