CALS strengthens NYC connections with new grant projects

News

These three-year projects will add to the more than 60 existing CALS initiatives in New York City, further strengthening the ties between upstate and downstate. These projects also support the broader goals of President Martha E. Pollack’s...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Communication
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Communication
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Michael Rosato: Creating a sustainable & affordable future for NY growers

Field Note

What drew you to the program with Steve Reiners? I first worked in Steve Reiners’s program at the beginning of my undergraduate years as a summer technician. Steve always took the time to answer questions and helped me explore the world of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Organic
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Students hunt for maple seedlings in the name of science

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This summer, a small team of citizen scientists – including two students from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – bushwhacked their way through dense forest growth and clouds of biting insects. Their mission: gather scientific data...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Plants
  • Food
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Murray’s Stockinghall cheese tops national competition

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Murray’s Stockinghall cheese – a bright, lemony, cloth-bound cheddar named for Cornell’s Stocking Hall and developed at the university in partnership with Old Chatham Creamery of Groton, New York – won best in show at the 36th American Cheese...
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Kids can test drive social media safely with new simulations

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Educators across the country can now use Cornell-designed interactive tutorials to teach elementary and middle schoolers how to participate positively in social media – while simultaneously learning to navigate some of its potential perils. The...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Department of Communication
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Communication
  • Media
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Grants create engagement opportunities for students

News

The Office of Engagement Initiatives has awarded $1,307,580 in Engaged Curriculum Grants to 25 teams of faculty and community partners that are integrating community-engaged learning into majors and minors across the university. This year’s...
  • Current Undergraduate Student
  • Faculty
  • Communication
  • Climate Change
  • Food
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Gender-equality champion wins Borlaug award for ag research

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Hale Ann Tufan, a leading advocate for gender equality as a central tenet of crop improvement, has won the 2019 Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. The award, given by the World Food Prize, is the premier recognition for...
  • International Programs
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
  • Food
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Cornell partners with Purdue on global food safety

News

Cornell is teaming with Purdue University – a partnership of land-grant universities from New York and Indiana – to establish the first Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety, which aims to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges...
  • Food Safety Laboratory and Milk Quality Improvement Program
  • Food Science
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Study: Fracking prompts global spike in atmospheric methane

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As methane concentrations increase in the Earth’s atmosphere, chemical fingerprints point to a probable source: shale oil and gas, according to new Cornell research published Aug. 14 in Biogeosciences, a journal of the European Geosciences Union...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Environment
  • Climate Change
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Startup works with Cornell AgriTech on mushroom burger

News

Mushrooms just might be the superhero of foods – they repurpose agricultural waste, are nutrient-dense, can help manage diabetes and can be used to decrease meat consumption. It’s that last “superpower” that intrigues George Zheng, founder and...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food
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How can we protect New York state’s berry industry?

Spotlight

Cornell University’s berry team provides expertise in horticulture, entomology, plant pathology, agricultural economics, plant breeding and management practices for New York state’s $20 million berry industry.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Department of Entomology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Food
  • Fruits
  • Plants
  • Crops
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Study: Red or blue, Americans value effort to achieve success

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Liberals and conservatives may agree on at least one thing: the importance of working hard in order to succeed. According to new Cornell-led research exploring the foundations of morality, liberals and Democrats are far more inclined than...
  • Current Graduate Student
  • Faculty
  • Media
  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
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Partnership will advance food safety research in China

News

Cornell and China’s Hebei Qimei Agriculture Science and Technology Co. Ltd., an organic food group, signed an agreement in June to collaborate on microbial food safety research. The agreement was funded by a three-year, $2.5 million grant from...
  • Faculty
  • Industry
  • Researcher
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Knowing berry pests’ varied diets may help control them

News

With New York state’s $20 million berry industry entering peak season, an invasive fruit fly is thriving. Female spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii Matsumura) have a special ovipositor (a tube through which a female insect deposits eggs...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Department of Entomology
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Grapes 101: Grapevine Roots

Report

How Grapevine Roots Grow Compared to the above-ground portions of a grapevine, root structure and function is more of a mystery to most growers. Roots extract nutrients and water from the soil, and are also the dominant storage organ for...
  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Food
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Schumer announces funding for hemp seed bank at Cornell

News

The 2018 Farm Bill changed federal policy regarding industrial hemp, including the removal of hemp from the Controlled Substances Act and the consideration of hemp as an agricultural product. The change created an agricultural opportunity...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
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New lab opens at Cornell for invasive species research

News

For the last seven decades, Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) has been leading the fight against nematodes—invasive, microscopic worms that can destroy seasons’ worth of crops. However, researchers had been...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
  • Organisms
  • Food
  • Disease
  • Crops
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Genomic data show how fish fare in evolutionary rapids

News

Over recent decades, many commercially harvested fish have grown slower and matured earlier, which can translate into lower yields and a reduced resilience to overexploitation. Scientists have long suspected that rapid evolutionary change in...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Animals
  • Genomics
  • Evolution
  • Fish
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Groundwater policies fire up air pollution in northwest India

News

A new study reveals how water-use policies require farmers to transplant rice later in the year, which in turn delays harvests and concentrates agricultural burnings of crop residues in November, a month when breezes stagnate, leading to...
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Energy
  • Global Development
  • Environment
  • Water

CALS signs new admissions agreement with Binghamton University

News

“We’re thrilled to have developed this articulation agreement with Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,” said School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Founding Dean Gloria Meredith. “This agreement builds on the...
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