New research may help revive New York’s fall berry industry

News

The farm is experiencing one of its best seasons to date, thanks to better management of fall infestations of spotted wing drosophila (SWD), part of a research collaboration with Greg Loeb, professor of entomology at Cornell AgriTech, part of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Food
  • Crops
  • Horticulture
  • Entomology
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Tess Pendergrast: Welcome to Global Development

Field Note

Get to know Tess Academic focus: I am a sociologist who studies social inequality. Specifically, I research the disproportionate environmental and health-related burdens low-income and nonwhite groups in the United States face. I’ve also been...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Tess Pendergrast

Stewart’s milk is New York’s cream of the crop for 2020

News

Cornell’s Milk Quality Improvement Program has awarded Stewart’s Dairy in Saratoga Springs top honors in New York state’s annual fluid milk competition, conducted on behalf of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. The Cornell...
  • Food Safety Laboratory and Milk Quality Improvement Program
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Beverages
  • Dairy
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Cornell’s tasty Smoothie Bites freeze out competitors

News

Cornell’s bite-size frozen fruit smoothie pieces with crunchy yogurt coatings earned the top prize this summer at the virtual 2020 Institute of Food Technologists’ (IFT) Student Association & Mars Product Development national competition....
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy
  • Fruits
raspberries, a spoonful of peanut butter, sliced bananas and white smoothie bites on a wooden surface

Cornell Atkinson awards $250K in COVID research grants

News

Since requesting proposals in April, the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability has awarded approximately $250,000 in rapid-response grants for COVID-19-related Cornell research. With the final 10 awards announced, the center has now funded...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Department of Communication
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CCE Steuben County Creates Do-it-Yourself Container Garden Kits

News

Thanks to a grant from the NYS Department of Ag and Markets, Ag Educator Ariel Kirk and her team were able to develop a do-it-yourself container garden kit with all the necessary components and supplementary support materials, and then...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
a woman behind a table making a container garden

Green practices can negate climate emissions on NY farms

News

The 65-page report, New York Agriculture and Climate Change: Key Opportunities for Mitigation, Resilience, and Adaptation, provides a scientific assessment of opportunities and barriers supporting climate adaptation and mitigation practices on...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Soil
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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Faculty inform WHO’s COVID-19 and breastfeeding guidelines

News

Findings will inform the World Health Organization’s (WHO) international guidelines on breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Saurabh Mehta and Julia Finkelstein, both associate professors in Cornell’s Division of Nutritional Sciences...
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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LEAD New York to pause due to COVID-19

News

Program will offer webinar series, continue other activities in response to pandemic In response to the COVID-19 health crisis, LEAD New York has decided to pause the start of seminars for the 2020–2021 year. Executive director Larry Van De Valk...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

Corrie Moreau: Sharing 7 million insects with the digital world

Multimedia

Spotlight

As director and head curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, Corrie Moreau has numerous tasks on her to-do list, including one that could last her entire career: digitizing the collection’s 7 million specimens. Digitization is a...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
  • Evolution
  • Entomology
  • Organisms
  • Nature
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Boor tours dairy farm with Rep. Brindisi, touts ag research

News

U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi, a New York Democrat, met Aug. 10 with farmers and agricultural thought leaders – including Kathryn Boor ’80, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – for a farm tour and roundtable...
  • Agriculture
  • Development
  • Crops
  • Applied Economics
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Demographics data helps predict NY flood insurance claims

News

“Are we taxing America so that people with second homes on the water don’t have to pay as much?” asked Brian Rahm, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Rahm is a co...
  • Development
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
  • Water
A house being built in the winter

New Cooperative Extension program connects Cornell to SWNY farmers

News

The five-county region of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, and Steuben Counties relies on an estimated $601 million in agricultural product sales to fuel the local economy. Eighty percent of those dollars come from the dairy, livestock...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
Josh using testing instrument in cattle field

Johannes Lehmann: Leading the Soil Carbon Revolution

Spotlight

Johannes Lehmann, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences, is leading a revolution. Over the past two decades, he has been instrumental in overturning a long-held scientific belief regarding the fundamental nature of soil...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Soil
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Climate Change
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Two CALS students selected as 2020 Cargill Global Scholars

News

Green is majoring in Animal Science, and Miller is majoring in International Agriculture and Rural Development. The Cargill Global Scholars Program is a distinctive international scholarship initiative that began in 2013, and it offers a...
  • Animal Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Global Development experts explore hunger, COVID-19 in journal Nature

News

As COVID-19 disrupts food systems around the world, a pivot to more agile and inclusive data collection and analysis is critical to avert widespread hunger, according to Cornell Global Development experts in a comment piece published Aug. 5 in...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
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