Food Dignity project garners national recognition

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It started as a project to explore and strengthen food systems, but became so much more: a bridge between campus and community, a model for cooperative learning, and a catalyst for change. Christine Porter, Ph.D. ‘10, started the Food Dignity...

Pest to pest

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Could this pesky weed tree and annoying insect have value after all? According to this PennLive blog post, the pointy-leafed trees that you see so often along roadsides and neglected fields - tree-of-Heaven, or Ailanthus altissima - is a favored...
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Soda law ruling best for consumers and retailers

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According to David Just, food marketing and economics expert and professor in the Dyson School, the recent decision by New York’s Court of Appeals to not reinstate laws limiting the size of sodas sold in New York City was not only the popular...

Former chef pursues viticulture and enology at Cornell

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Jason Hopwood ‘14 did not initially pursue a career in the wine industry. Before coming to Cornell, Hopwood worked in hospitality, as a chef and eventually co-owner of a restaurant. His interest in wine grew through these experiences until he...

New rot test has Cornell roots

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Farmers have a new weapon in their arsenal in detecting and combating the soil-borne plant pathogen Phoma sclerotioides, commonly known as brown root rot/BRR, thanks to Cornell researchers. First detected in the eastern United States in Clinton...
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Cheers!

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It was cheers for beers this week, at news from Albany that Governor Andrew M. Cuomo would be investing $350,000 for research into hops and malting barley, key beer-brewing ingredients, to help Cornell specialists understand the varieties and...

Guest post: Brewing on the horizon

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It grows 18 feet tall, bears a cone-shaped flower that begins to form after the summer solstice, has the potential to yield 400 different oils, and claims marijuana as its closest relative in the plant kingdom. What is it? The hop plant, once...

Beware of basil disease

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From Margaret Tuttle McGrath, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center: Reminiscent of the late blight outbreak of 2009, basil plants with downy mildew are being found at big...
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CALS launches the School of Integrative Plant Science

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Cornell President David Skorton joined Dean Boor and a host of other dignitaries and Reunion attendees on the Ag Quad today to help launch the new School of Integrative Plant Science in CALS. The school brings together CALS’ former plant and...

Cranberries come to Cornell Orchards

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Via the Cornell Horticulture blog: On a sunny Tuesday, associate professor of horticulture Justine Vanden Heuvel and research support specialist Michael Brown got a good start on planting a new cranberry bed, the first at Cornell Orchards. (The...

"The Resilient Ones" Forest Farming Excerpt

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Via Cornell Horticulture Blog: Associate professor of horticulture Ken Mudge, program aid Steve Gabriel and research support specialist Jonathan Comstock appear in a new movie, The Resilient Ones: A Generation Takes On Climate Change from Bright...

Plastic Tides launches Kickstarter campaign

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Christian Shaw 14, CALS alumnus and organizer of the Plastic Tides initiative, has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to shoot a short documentary of a planed paddle board expedition in the Sargasso Sea surrounding Bermuda. The...

Brown recognized as “Woman of Distinction”

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In recognition of her extraordinary commitment to the fields of agriculture and science, horticulture professor Susan Brown was recently honored at the 2014 “Women of Distinction” ceremony at the State Capitol. Brown, director of Cornell’s Fruit...

A coffee a day may keep retinal damage away

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Coffee drinkers, rejoice! Aside from java’s energy jolt, food scientists say you may reap another health benefit from a daily cup of joe: prevention of deteriorating eyesight and possible blindness from retinal degeneration due to glaucoma...

CALS students aim to stem plastic tides

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Guest Post from Christian Shaw ’14 and Céline Jennison ‘14* “Having both grown up enjoying water sports, we feel a responsibility to work towards protecting our playground for generations to come. Along with a group of three other friends who...

NYC cooperative extension gets new director

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Jennifer Tiffany, Ph.D. ’04, is the new executive director of Cornell University Cooperative Extension of New York City ( CUCE-NYC). She has served as CUCE-NYC interim director since the unexpected death of former director Don Tobias in November...

Tick season begins unabated by winter’s bite

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The frigid bite of this past winter’s Polar Vortex was not enough to wipe out one biting scourge of summer – ticks. “Despite the long, cold winter, ticks are abundant in New York State and surrounding areas,“says Paul Curtis, coordinator of...
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Got tofu?

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If you’re one of the legions of health-conscious Americans who regularly cook with tofu, a new study by the Cornell Food and Brand Lab suggests new ways to persuade your tofu-reticent friends and family to try cooking with the jiggly, white...

Bowser awarded for eel work

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They may be small, but the so-called “glass eels” ( Anguilla rostrata) are a key component of the river ecosystem. Chris Bowser, an extension support specialist for Cornell’s New York State Water Resources (WRI) Institute, has been using them as...