The forest for the trees

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The Cornell forestry program has been honored with two awards recently. As reported in the Department of Natural Resources blog, popular outreach tool ForestConnect was announced as a joint winner, alongside the University of Georgia, of the...

Faculty focus: Drew Margolin

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Status updates, check-ins, tweets, cookies, our every movement laid bare for anyone to see… the corrosion of privacy that makes some of us cringe sends social scientists like Drew Margolin into gushes of glee. New media technology is providing a...

Albany update: Judson Reid and Harvest NY

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On Tuesday, December 10, Judson Reid, senior extension specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), spoke to the New York State Assembly Agriculture Committee about the burgeoning economic impact of CCE’s successful Harvest NY pilot...
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The fraternity of Foursquare

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Does mobile technology make us more attuned to our surroundings, or cause us to tune the city out? Assistant professor of communication Lee Humphreys and Ph.D. student Tony Liao are studying the changing mobile media landscape, quite literally...

Dean Boor weighs in on Congressional inaction on the Farm Bill

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As the Farm Bill continues to languish in Congress, concern is mounting from farmers and food producers to economists and consumer advocates over the potential impacts if no new legislation is signed before the beginning of 2014. For example...
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Agricultural economics and management – of oneself

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In a career that spanned 50 years and several continents, Robert Herdt learned a thing or two – about agriculture, economics and leadership. On the brink of retirement, he shared some of his most valuable lessons with colleagues, friends, and...

CALS student experiences government in action

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David Schatz ’14, Applied Economics and Management major in the Charles H. Dyson School, recently blogged about his experiences in Washington D.C. as part of the Cornell in Washington program. The highlight? Meeting Cornell alumna and Supreme...
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A new blotch on the quality of your favorite wines

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Oenophiles everywhere take note – a newly identified virus may impact the quality of some of your favorite wines. Dubbed “ grapevine red blotch-associated virus” or GRBaV, the pathogen was jointly identified in 2012 by Cornell virologists Marc...
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CALS mourns loss of CUCE-NYC director Don Tobias

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Donald Tobias, executive director of the Cornell University Cooperative Extension office in New York City (CUCE-NYC) since 2005, died Nov. 22 in New York City. He was 68. “Robin and I are deeply saddened to have lost a treasured colleague and...

Faculty Focus: Heather Huson

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They may have been top performers amidst the lush landscape and airy altitudes of their native Alps, but Toggenburg goats haven’t fared so well in Sub-Saharan Africa. Imported to Kenya because of their high milk production, the Swiss goats bred...

New CALS diversity grants aim to broaden inclusiveness

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This story is part of a new, regular feature on CALS Notes devoted to profiling the people and programs in the college committed to promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the CALS community. As part of a CALS-wide commitment to promoting...

Is Haiyan indicative of the new normal in super storms?

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With sustained winds of an estimated 195 miles per hour, steady intensification, and a prolonged Category 5 classification, Haiyan – the typhoon that killed thousands of people in the Philippines when it made landfall on Nov. 8 – was about as...

Faculty Focus: Minglin Ma

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Sometimes the best things really do come in small packages. Minglin Ma, a new assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, is hoping to package cells in novel ways to provide new therapies for diseases like Type 1 diabetes...

CALS emeritus professor acknowledged for his “luminous” career

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It’s an awe-inspiring display, one which Jim Morin has witnessed thousands of times: tiny pulses of blue, emitted from sesame seed-sized crustaceans called ostracods, lighting up Caribbean ocean reefs in the dark of night. The emeritus professor...
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Faculty Focus: Toby Ault

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We’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not, but Toby Ault would prefer to be prepared, and he’s working to arm scientists and sociologists, ecologists and economists, with as much information as possible to help...

Perspectives on Diversity: CALS Admissions

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This story is part of a new, regular feature on CALS Notes devoted to profiling the people and programs in the college committed to promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the CALS community. As CALS Notes recently learned, Pamela Tan cares...

The Next Generation

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Coming from a family of winemakers going back 400 years, Céline Coquard Lenerz, M.S. ’12, never seriously considered any other career path. Her family’s vineyard in Prairie du Sac, Wis.— Wollersheim Winery—was founded in the 1840s and passed...

Coffman wins inaugural World Agriculture Prize

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Congratulations to Ronnie Coffman, professor of plant breeding & genetics and director of CALS International Programs ( IP-CALS), on being awarded the inaugural World Agriculture Prize by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations...

World Food Day spotlight: Chris Barrett

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October 16 was established as World Food Day in 1979 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations as a symbolic way to mobilize advocacy efforts and strengthen political will to address global issues of hunger...