Libby Foust: Serving as an essential employee during the pandemic

Field Note

For nine years, Libby Foust has worked as a building and facilities coordinator for CALS. She manages 11 different buildings, including Riley-Robb Hall, Morrison Hall and Stocking Hall. Foust’s commitment to finding creative, cost-effective...
Libby Foust in her office

Statement on the Recent Killings of Black People in America

News

Dear Cornell Cooperative Extension Community, Like so many of you, I am devastated by racist violence and senseless killing of Black men and women, including those that we have heard about in recent weeks: George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension

Rebekah Jones ’20: Looking for answers in criminal justice

Spotlight

Rebekah Jones ’20 grew up in Queens, New York, observing the everyday lives of New Yorkers. This sparked her enthusiasm for social science research. After completing a social science research-oriented program in high school, Jones applied to...
  • Development Sociology
  • Global Development

Refugee children get better health, nutrition via e-vouchers

News

Electronic food vouchers provided young Rohingya children in Bangladeshi refugee camps with better health and nutrition than direct food assistance, according to new research led by Cornell, in conjunction with the International Food Policy...
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
Tents housing children at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Seven CALS faculty, staff members receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards

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Seven CALS faculty and professional staff members have been selected for the 2019-20 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. Visit the Cornell Chronicle, for the complete list of all sixteen faculty and...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Food Science
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Department of Communication

Anastashia Alfred ‘20: A journey of academics, athletics and volunteerism

Field Note

With a passion to make an impact on food security, food waste and water issues, Anastashia Alfred ‘20 raced into research on structural inequalities. A Development Sociology major from Texas, Anastashia shares her experience in research...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Hikers urged to enjoy gorge trails, natural areas safely

News

Cornell’s gorge safety website has a range of information and resources for the safe enjoyment of natural areas on campus and in the community. “Research shows that spending time in nature lowers stress levels and improves other health measures...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Nature
A gorge in the summer

Five students receive SUNY graduate fellowships

News

The SUNY Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship is a one-time, one-year grant that incentivizes outstanding students at four-year institutions in the state university system to enroll in SUNY graduate programs. The scholarship provides $5,000 in...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Biology

Robots armed with UV light fight grape mildew

Multimedia

News

Researchers at Cornell AgriTech have deployed robots in local vineyards, where they are using UV light to kill pathogens like downy mildew and powdery mildew — without harming the growing plants.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Fruits
  • Disease
  • Crops
  • Pathology
  • Biology
A green grape with a white substance on it

Center advances social sciences research with spring grants

News

Those are some of the questions scholars will study with the help of $118,000 in grants awarded by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS). The center this spring funded 14 research projects and two conferences, involving two-dozen faculty...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
  • Environment
  • Water

Bacterial enzyme structure opens door for new antibiotics

News

Bacteria are growing increasingly antibiotic-resistant, but new research reveals how certain enzymes could be exploited to develop new classes of drugs that fight bacterial infections.
  • Microbiology
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Medicine
  • Bacteria
A person working with a microscope

Grow-NY business competition is on; entries close July 15

News

The second Grow-NY food and agriculture business competition is going on as planned, with new safety practices in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers and state officials said May 14 during a virtual briefing. Funded by Empire State...
  • Agriculture
  • Development
  • Applied Economics

Annie Weiss '21: Understanding gendered portrayal of food

Field Note

Co-taught by Neil Lewis, Jr., assistant professor of communication, and René Kizilcec, assistant professor of information science, COMM/INFO 4800 is a capstone seminar that combines applied quantitative research methods and social behavioral...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Communication

Kathryn J. Boor statement on our responsibility in violent times

News

I hope you have seen President Martha Pollack’s statement released on Friday about the recent killings of Black community members in America. I join President Pollack in expressing sadness and outrage over the killing of George Floyd and far too...

Sumanta Basu: Analyzing data, finding hidden structure

Spotlight

“Statistics is unique; it’s like a language of science,” says Sumanta Basu, Statistics and Data Science/Computational Biology. “It gives researchers a rigorous framework to clearly present the logic behind their algorithms and analyses, as well...
  • Computational Biology
  • Statistics and Data Science
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Genetics
  • Applied Economics
a bald man with glasses writes a complex equation on a whiteboard

New faculty carrying on CALS’ impact mission

News

Abigail Snyder, from the Department of Food Science, studies how different conditions in food processing environments can contribute to the rise of microbial communities. Her main focus is developing solutions to challenges in food safety...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Plants

Social sciences center awards COVID-19 grants

News

As the coronavirus pandemic escalated in the United States, reports of bias and hostility against immigrants and Asian Americans also grew. New research supported by a rapid response grant from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) will...
  • Global Development Section
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development
  • Applied Economics
A red bacteria