Meet Cheryl Bilinski: Serving Up a Healthier Local Food System

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Can you share a quote or saying that reflects the work you do?  Novelist and farmer Wendell E. Berry said, “Eating is an agricultural act.” This quote means different things to different people, but to me, it aptly and succinctly reinforces the...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition
Cheryl Bilinski

The business case for investing in leadership training

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LeadNY Executive Director Larry Van De Valk reflects on the value of leadership development and professional training as the 35 year old program recruits its 19th class. LeadNY is for committed leaders in the agriculture and food industries who...
  • Global Development Section
Leadership development group receives training outdoors

Extension Connections Help Bring COVID-19 Vaccinations to NYC Neighborhoods

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Community partnerships work! In the spring of 2021, Cornell University Cooperative Extension – New York City (CUCE-NYC) has been connecting the Community Healthcare Network with the community engagement team at Weill Cornell Medicine's Clinical and Translational Sciences Center (CTSC) so that medical students could volunteer with community-based vaccination clinics.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Health + Nutrition
Gymnasium set up as vaccine site

Veer Vekaria ’19: Embracing life-long learning in the medical field

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How did your Cornell CALS experience support your personal and professional goals? CALS is defined by the electricity and interplay between all the disciplines it houses. When I first started at Cornell, I felt like a cookie-cutter pre-med...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Biology
  • Health + Nutrition
Weill Cornell Medical College

Meet Julie Raway: Advancing school nutrition programs across New York state

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Julie Raway is a registered dietitian with Broome Tioga BOCES Food Services, a farm to school chair of the New York School Nutrition Association, and a leader of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Farm to School Program Work Team.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition
Julie Raway picking greens in a large garden

Carlyn Buckler: Understanding and communicating science

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Carlyn Buckler is an associate professor of practice in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science. She teaches three innovative classes, heads up the Master of Professional Studies Hemp Science Focus Area, and is active...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
  • Communication
Buckler leading tour at Museum of the Earth

Brennan Hyden: Exploring willow’s potential as a sustainable bioenergy crop

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Brennan Hyden is a Ph.D. candidate working in the lab of Larry Smart , professor of horticulture at Cornell AgriTech , where his work focuses on using willow as a sustainable bioenergy crop. For his excellence in bioenergy research, Hyden was...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Horticulture
  • Energy
  • Genomics
Graduate student works with middle school students.

Remembering KAR Robison, student, activist and artist

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I was very saddened by the news of KAR’s passing. They had enrolled in two courses with me in the spring of 2020: Underground Railroad Seminar (an Africana course) and the Rural Humanities Seminar (offered through the Rural Humanities Initiative...

The 2020 CALS Global Fellows Program: Working around the world from home

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For the past five years, the CALS Global Fellows Program (GFP) has worked with international partners to create meaningful, professionally-focused internships and research opportunities for undergraduate students in any major in CALS and Dyson...
  • CALS Global Fellows Program
  • Department of Communication
A laptop on a wooden table with a notepad and pen and a cup of coffee

Cooking holiday foods safely with Elizabeth Demmings

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Elizabeth Demmings is the program coordinator at the Institute for Food Safety at Cornell University (IFS@CU), located at Cornell AgriTech . The IFS@CU’s motto is to cultivate food safety knowledge. Demmings helps develop and deliver food safety...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Institute for Food Safety
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Beverages
apricot filled cookies on a cooling rack