CALS climate change experts share insight with Albany leaders

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Floods, droughts, pests and pathogens were among the weighty topics considered at the New York State Capitol on Tuesday. In the middle of a busy legislative session day, Sen. Tom O’Mara and Assembly member Steve Englebright, chairs of the Senate...
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Primed with healthful free samples, shoppers choose fruit

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the supermarket – nibbling free samples like no one is watching – the Cornell Food and Brand Lab has your number: 28. Shoppers who first received a sample apple slice purchased 28 percent more...

Climate change set to devastate coral reefs

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As greater atmospheric carbon dioxide boosts sea temperatures, tropical corals face a bleak future. New climate model projections show that conditions are likely to increase the frequency and severity of coral disease outbreaks, reports a team...
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Is the future secure? Six Cornell scholars explore their answers

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Deliberating security and a sustainable future, six professors from several disciplines offered realistic quick-takes on destiny – and how our society adjusts. Guided by John Toohey ’84 – also known as John Morales, chief meteorologist for WTVJ...
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CITIZEN U teen takes top 4-H honors

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Nosa Akol, a senior at Binghamton High School and leader in the CITIZEN Uprogram at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County, steps into the spotlight tonight at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., accepting the 2015 4-H Youth in Action Award...
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150 Years of Plant Science at Cornell University

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Just in time for Charter Day, which marks Cornell’s 150th birthday … Through vintage images, explore the history of plant science at Cornell — the students, the faculty, the Nobel laureates and other leaders and more. Special thanks to Ed Cobb...

Ault to look back 150,000 years to see future of climate change

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By John Carberry You want climate change? Toby Ault will give you climate change. The Earth and Atmospheric Sciences assistant professor will take you through Ithaca’s past – from the depths of the coldest period of the past half million years...
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AIP sees new challenges, great potential in Native student recruitment

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By John Carberry What do you do when your portfolio of academics engaged in Indigenous Studies is among the best in North America, you have a first-of-its-kind residence hall that celebrates Native culture and is recognized around the globe, and...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
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Female microgrooves assists ‘microswimmer’ sperm

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In mammalian reproduction, sperm have a tough task: like trout swimming upstream, they must swim against a current through a convoluted female reproductive tract in search of the unfertilized egg. Many fertility studies focus on how fast sperm...
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Cornell remembers science education pioneer ‘Doc Rock’

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A memorial service is set for 2 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at Kendal at Ithaca for Verne N. Rockcastle, professor emeritus of education studies and teacher preparation, who died April 5 in Ithaca. The science educator, a member of the College of...
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Facts in Five: Bugging Out!

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Drawings by agricultural sciences major Olivia McCandless ’17 In October, the Department of Entomology celebrated the 150th anniversary of Cornell with the largest Insectapalooza to date. Meet some of the featured small but mighty creatures that...

Endnote: My Cornell Story

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Gerald A. Beechum, Jr. ‘96 Over 20 years ago as an agricultural economics major, I never could have imagined how Cornell’s vast resources would play a role in two key transitions in my professional life—beginning my first career in finance and...

$18.5 Million Grant to Boost Breeding of Global Staples

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To streamline the breeding of five staple crops—wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Cornell $18.5 million for a project that will put modular, open-source breeding software resources into the...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Food
  • Global Development

Implementing the CALS Strategic Plan 2014-15: an Update

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The new strategic plan defines priorities that will keep the college nimble, proactive and well positioned to meet the needs and aspirations of students and stakeholders for decades to come. Work around this year’s objectives is well underway in...

Harvest New York Bolsters Yogurt Industry

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Tristan Zuber, a dairy food processing and safety specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Harvest New York initiative, spent Feb. 26 in Albany promoting New York’s successful yogurt industry. Western New York Senators, led by former...
  • Food
  • Dairy