Your Cornell CALS Holiday Handbook

Spotlight

Science is at the heart of the many foods and beverages enjoyed during the holidays. From food safety to ingredients and best practices, CALS experts play a vital role in keeping people healthy and informed during this treasured time of year...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Food Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
Photograph of a clock tower in winter taken through a snowy bush with red berries poking through the snow.

New book helps farmers outsmart their weeds

News

Cornell and USDA scientists have produced the definitive guide to understanding agricultural weeds and how to manage them efficiently, effectively and ecologically. The 416-page book, “ Manage Weeds on Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Organic
  • Crops
cover of manage weeds on your farm superimposed over same field being cultivated on the cover

Cornell-led Grow-NY contest boosts NYS food, ag startups

News

The Chicago-based startup Every Body Eat, which produces food free of the 14 most common allergens, took home $1 million in the third annual Grow-NY Food and Agriculture Competition, led by Cornell.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
A Grow NY panel

Bacteria could extract elements for modern tech sustainably

News

Cornell researchers are engineering bacteria to solve challenges of extracting rare earth elements from ore; the substances are vital for modern life but refining them after mining is costly, harms the environment and mostly occurs abroad.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Energy
  • Biology
  • Environment
A synthetic crystal.

Program promotes African links, diversity in plant sciences

News

The Cornell Assistantship for Horticulture in Africa (CAHA), a program that brings master’s students from sub-Saharan Africa to Cornell to complete doctorate degrees in horticulture, has now added a second assistantship for African Americans, with the goal of increasing diversity in the plant sciences – a field that lacks minority representation.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Environment
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
Two students stand in the Ag Quad.

In the virtual front row, Cornell students saw COP26 unfold

News

During the two weeks of the COP26 (Conference of the Parties) international climate change conference’s talks and negotiations, 45 undergraduate and graduate Cornell students plugged in from Ithaca through select channels, listened and held digital front row seats to environmental history.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
  • Health + Nutrition
Students in a classroom.

CALS assesses curriculum to improve diversity, equity, inclusivity in teaching

Spotlight

This is the second in a series of stories detailing actions CALS students, faculty and staff have taken over the past year to make our community a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place for everyone. Here, we highlight college efforts to design a more inclusive curriculum and detail some of the courses CALS faculty have developed or adapted to address issues of racial, social, gender, economic and environmental justice.
  • Department of Entomology
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Plants
The CALS Ag Quad

Food scientists create zinc index for human body

News

Zinc deficiency is prevalent around the world, and among children, these mineral shortfalls can lead to stunting, embryonic malformations and neurobehavioral abnormalities.
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
Zinc pills

$2M bequest to benefit students in plant sciences

News

The gift from the estate of late professor Raymond Fox ’47, M.S. ’52, Ph.D. ’56, will support scholarships and fellowships as well as student participation in supplemental educational programs for undergraduate plant science students.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
Students in William Miller’s horticulture class document the growth of plants in the Kenneth Post Greenhouse

Electric Uprising: Schneider Electric—EVs’ starring role in an all-electric world

News

Some energy experts believe that EVs could be much more than simply a replacement for the passenger car: They could, in fact, be part and parcel of a much larger and more profound change in how we live and work, and even in how our economy functions. Hilary Maxson ’99 (Dyson), MBA ’05, executive vice president and group chief financial officer at multinational electrification specialist Schneider Electric, is one of them.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
Electric car charging.

Electric Uprising: EVgo charges forward to create a network of EV charging stations

News

A key component in the saga of the electric vehicle has been the supremacy of gasoline as the world’s fuel of choice. Through the course of the 20th century, petroleum exerted an all-consuming monopoly over transport; the industry selling it would tolerate no competitors. That’s one reason why it’s taken a full century for electric cars, and the facilities to charge them, to return to America.
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
electric car

Center for Social Sciences awards fall ’21 grants

News

The Cornell Center for Social Sciences grant program, which supports social science research by Cornell faculty members and conferences that directly benefit Cornell faculty and students, has awarded $142,636 for 15 proposals for fall 2021.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Department of Communication
  • Department of Entomology
  • Global Development Section
McGraw Tower is surrounded by red autumn leaves

Pi Alpha Xi welcomes new members

News

Pi Alpha Xi (PAX), the national honor society for horticulture and plant sciences, welcomed 26 new members during a November 15, 2021 ceremony. “It was another large group of inductees this year, and it was great to see in person many of last...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
2021 inductees pose for a group shot