Dilmun Hill Student Farm celebrates 20 years

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 It started as a simple idea: Cornell students learning about farming should have someplace to actually farm. Thus was born Dilmun Hill. In the 20 years since students tilled those first three acres, the farm...

Q&A with Toby Ault: Mitigating megadroughts

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By Ellen Leventry periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Toby Ault, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, caused a big splash in 2015 when he and co-authors from Columbia University and NASA published a paper showing that, because...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Cornell begins ‘a new era of business education’

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Cornell University has begun “a new era of business education” with the launch of the College of Business on July 1, Dean Soumitra Dutta said. The College of Business, comprising Cornell’s three accredited...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

$1M expands next-generation food technology at Geneva campus

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Building on its capacity as a center for food product development and food safety innovation, Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., is poised to expand its food development...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Institute for Food Safety
  • Food Science
  • Food
Four women and a man pose together for a photo in front of the Cornell seal

Student life: After class

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Daniel Abaraoha ‘18 Applied Economics & Management If you pass Daniel Abaraoha on the Ag Quad and he’s looking down, he’s not downcast—he’s likely studying your footwear. Abaraoha is a shoe-in for most...

Tech brings value to vineyards

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Each morning, the same question greets Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory Director Terry Bates from his office white board: What are you doing for the grape growers? This summer, the answer has...
  • Lake Erie Research and Extension Lab
  • Food Science
A vineyard

CALS in Conversation

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 “With CRISPR, literally overnight what had been the biggest frustration of my career turned into an undergraduate side project. It was incredible.” Robert Reed, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary...

Pollinator Protectors

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Foraging for food in the flowers of crops—and in the process pollinating crops from apples to zucchini—bees are essential to billions of dollars in annual agricultural production worldwide, and $500 million in...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Pollinators
A bee pollinating a flower

Alumni Q&A: As a public servant, how do you measure success?

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Kathleen Miller ‘82 Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff (G-3/5/7) with the U.S. Army at the Pentagon To stay on track, I regularly ask myself three critical questions. First, did I make something better today...

Flavor Savers

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Shedding Light on Dairy Most grocery stores have bright, gleaming cases of milk. But the bulbs illuminating those cartons and gallons could be altering the flavor and aroma of the milk, even if they are energy...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy

Larger Than Life

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Text by David Nutt and Amanda Garris, Ph.D. ‘04 periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 When CALS scientists take a close look at the natural world, the resulting images are more than tools of research: They can be artful, elegant, even surprising...
  • Biology

Facts in Five: Ruminations on Dairy

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 When agriculture professor Isaac P. Roberts arrived at Cornell in 1873, the campus dairy herd was infected with tuberculosis and had ten cows “that had among them only twenty-two milkable teats,” according to...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy

Charting New York’s milky way

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By Alexandra Chang periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 With the sweet and tangy scent of silage in the air, dairy cows wait expectantly for a pat on the head while a tractor rumbles in the distance. The first moments in a dairy barn may seem like...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy
A dairy cow inside a barn

Dean’s Message

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Dairy cows have been on Cornell’s campus since the university’s very beginning, when our campus was largely a cluster of buildings on what is now the Arts Quad. In fact, along the north wall of Goldwin Smith...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy

Meet CALS Student Leader David Cox

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A CALS representative to the Cornell Student Assembly and a U.S. army veteran, Cox '17 aspires to become a doctor and fulfill the ideals of humanitarianism and public service.

Soil Scientist Speaks on Land Degradation at COP22

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In a presentation to global leaders battling climate change and feeding a burgeoning world population, Cornell's Dawit Solomon presented food security ideas to stave off the Earth's atmospheric warming.
Dawit Solomon gives a presentation