Orange County Gleaning Program feeds neighbors in need

News

The need for food assistance is growing while emergency food agencies are closing or providing limited access. The Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County Gleaning/Food Access Program, comprised of both CCE staff and Master Gardener...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Professor helps organize county food task force

News

Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor of global development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, collaborated with three community leaders over the past few weeks to get this countywide task force up and running. The task force is divided...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Horticulture
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Cornell AgriTech center helps business adapt to COVID-19

News

Our Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture (COE) has been helping food and ag businesses adapt to the COVID-19 economy with new marketing strategies and by diversifying products. “Whether we are helping startups with their business plans or looking at ways that we can assist farmers during the upcoming growing season,” said Cathy Young, executive director of the COE. "We want members of the food and ag community to know that we are here for them.”
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Food
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CCE Celebrates Volunteers for National Volunteer Week

News

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” — Fred Rogers Cornell Cooperative Extension volunteers have been making a difference for...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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My Cornell story: Deborah Arrindell '79

Field Note

Deborah Arrindell ’79 has 19 years of experience in the pharmacology and biotechnology industries. She currently works as an executive medical director in global patient safety and labeling at Amgen Inc. located in Thousand Oaks, California. My...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Health + Nutrition
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New specializations accelerate growth of MPS programs

News

Gagne graduated with a degree in horticulture and a specialization in controlled environment agriculture and recently landed an apprentice grower position at BrightFarms, a company based in the Hudson Valley. Controlled environment agriculture...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
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Q&A with reproductive biologist Yi Athena Ren

Spotlight

How did you become interested in reproductive biology? It all started when I attended a lecture by a well-respected reproductive biology professor at my undergraduate university in China. I was dabbling in research at that time, and his lecture...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Biology
  • Health + Nutrition
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Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture helps startups take off

News

“While formula had everything she needed to thrive and grow, it didn’t have everything we wanted for her,” said Ippolito, a lecturer in the Engineering Management Program at Cornell. In summer 2019, she launched SimpliFed, a startup company...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
  • Food

Researchers develop market for East Coast broccoli

News

This project is no small undertaking. One of the challenges stems from the fact that broccoli was originally cultivated for Mediterranean climates, so growing it in the U.S. confuses the plant’s developmental cues. Broccoli flower buds and heads...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
  • Food
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New leadership drives diversity and inclusion initiatives at CALS

News

Now, as students complete the spring semester from off-campus locations, CALS’ efforts to make sure that they feel safe and supported are more crucial than ever. “It’s very important that a sense of belonging envelops our Cornellians who are now...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
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'Just Food' course broadens students' perspectives of food systems

News

The course, Just Food: Exploring the Modern Food System, benefits from an interdisciplinary pair of instructors: Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor in the Department of Global Development, and Frank Rossi, associate professor of horticulture in the...
  • Food Science
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Dean's Message

Field Note

Kathryn J. Boor is the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Serving as the college’s chief academic and administrative officer, she is responsible for developing and implementing the strategic direction of the...
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Martha Furie '74 & Chenab Khakh '20 talk biology, CALS and women in STEM

Spotlight

Research at Cornell MARTHA: When I was here for undergrad, we science majors were busy! Can you believe that I had a three-hour chemistry lab at 8 a.m. on Saturdays? My career trajectory was shaped by my work in Dr. Adrian Srb’s lab, studying...
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Biology
  • Genetics
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Alumni gift creates bog and wetlands conservation internship

News

But scientists are increasingly understanding that bogs are also crucial ecosystems in the fight against climate change: in some cases, bogs can actually sequester more carbon than rain forests. Bogs are an ecologically unique aquatic system...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Organisms
  • Biodiversity
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Planet
  • Natural Resources
  • Ecosystems
  • Plants
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Lab instructors adapt to remote teaching

News

And in the class Hands-On Horticulture for Gardeners, Professor Marvin Pritts has asked students to design their own experiments, such as determining whether music helps plants grow, or what the best method might be for propagating Pothos, an...
  • Horticulture
  • Microbiology
  • Communication
  • Media
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CCE Voices: Catskills Youth Climate Summit & Earth Day

News

Fifty years on, Earth Day is more relevant than ever as the impacts of climate change are felt across New York state and the rest of the country. The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Environment
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Researchers to explore perennial grains with $1.77M grant

News

One of our researchers is helping organic farmers in upstate New York start growing perennial grain crops, which can be planted once and will yield grain for multiple years — supporting commercial products such as breads, cereals, beer and whiskey.
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Soil
  • Land
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Tidball advises NY State Senate on veterans outdoor act

News

Tidball, senior research associate in the Department of Natural Resources, in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, served as a consultant to members of the New York State Senate on the Outdoor Rx Act, a bill that seeks to make it easier...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Planet
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Youth development program supports next generation of dairy leaders

News

Alfredo Resendiz ’19, the first member of his family born in the United States and the first to go to college, developed a passion for agriculture through JDL. “These types of programs do have impact, especially within schools that have no...
  • Dairy Fellows Program
  • Animal Science
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Animals
  • Dairy
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