"The Resilient Ones" Forest Farming Excerpt

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Via Cornell Horticulture Blog: Associate professor of horticulture Ken Mudge, program aid Steve Gabriel and research support specialist Jonathan Comstock appear in a new movie, The Resilient Ones: A Generation Takes On Climate Change from Bright...

Plastic Tides launches Kickstarter campaign

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Christian Shaw 14, CALS alumnus and organizer of the Plastic Tides initiative, has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to shoot a short documentary of a planed paddle board expedition in the Sargasso Sea surrounding Bermuda. The...

Brown recognized as “Woman of Distinction”

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In recognition of her extraordinary commitment to the fields of agriculture and science, horticulture professor Susan Brown was recently honored at the 2014 “Women of Distinction” ceremony at the State Capitol. Brown, director of Cornell’s Fruit...

A coffee a day may keep retinal damage away

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Coffee drinkers, rejoice! Aside from java’s energy jolt, food scientists say you may reap another health benefit from a daily cup of joe: prevention of deteriorating eyesight and possible blindness from retinal degeneration due to glaucoma...

CALS students aim to stem plastic tides

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Guest Post from Christian Shaw ’14 and Céline Jennison ‘14* “Having both grown up enjoying water sports, we feel a responsibility to work towards protecting our playground for generations to come. Along with a group of three other friends who...

NYC cooperative extension gets new director

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Jennifer Tiffany, Ph.D. ’04, is the new executive director of Cornell University Cooperative Extension of New York City ( CUCE-NYC). She has served as CUCE-NYC interim director since the unexpected death of former director Don Tobias in November...

Tick season begins unabated by winter’s bite

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The frigid bite of this past winter’s Polar Vortex was not enough to wipe out one biting scourge of summer – ticks. “Despite the long, cold winter, ticks are abundant in New York State and surrounding areas,“says Paul Curtis, coordinator of...
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Got tofu?

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If you’re one of the legions of health-conscious Americans who regularly cook with tofu, a new study by the Cornell Food and Brand Lab suggests new ways to persuade your tofu-reticent friends and family to try cooking with the jiggly, white...

Bowser awarded for eel work

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They may be small, but the so-called “glass eels” ( Anguilla rostrata) are a key component of the river ecosystem. Chris Bowser, an extension support specialist for Cornell’s New York State Water Resources (WRI) Institute, has been using them as...

Jerky proves worthy

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Alex Krakoski ’16 has come up with a creative way to fund his Cornell education: beef jerky. And the entrepreneurial student has enlisted the help of several other CALS students to help turn his idea into a burgeoning business that recently...

Open Channels: How Communicating Bacteria Can Fight Disease

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How do you explain complicated science to the general public? In a word: Claymation. Cait Costello and Caitlin Feather, two post-docs in the laboratory of John March, associate professor of biological and environmental engineering, turned to the...

What You Can't See

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Elephants don’t only roam the savannahs - they also inhabit rainforests, where there are difficult to study because of the dense habitat. Scientists with the Elephant Listening Project, based at the Lab of Ornithology, have come up with some...

Dairy pro is new CCE associate director

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He’s been a top researcher into the metabolism, immune function, and nutritional physiology of cows, the go-to guy for farmers and others throughout the state dairy industry, and mentor to countless animal science students and Cornell Dairy...
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In Bangladesh with Bt brinjal farmers

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9 April 2014 - While visiting Bangladesh to conduct environmental safety assessments for Bt brinjal and help farmers develop resistant management programs to ensure the long-term durability of Bt eggplant, I visited Haidul Islam’s Bt brinjal...

Inspired to inspire

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“The best chief is not the one who persuades people to his point of view. It is instead the one in whose presence most people find it easiest to arrive at the truth.” - Nia:wen, Te honie ien Solomon “Sol” Cook ’38, M.S. ’42, Ph.D. ’50, the first...

Conference addresses fiscal threats to New York’s other cities

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Plagued by decades of industrial flight and population decline, New York cities along the so-called “Thruway Corridor” – Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica – have faced serious fiscal and economic challenges during the Great Recession...

Cultivating a crop of new Native students

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Starting a new springtime tradition, Native American leaders at Cornell planted the seeds of peace and sought to cultivate a new crop of student recruits March 21-22 at the inaugural Promising Futures event, which introduced more than 60 Native...
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Ms. Nosa goes to Washington

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As we reported earlier this week, superstar high school student Nosa Akol appeared on a panel at Wednesday’s USDA Borlaug Symposium in Washington D.C., to speak about how her experiences with The New York Youth Institute, the CITIZEN U program...

An Ag Day message to farmers from Dean Boor

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Today we celebrate National Agriculture Day, and on behalf of the entire College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at Cornell University, I salute the hard work and dedication of the farmers everywhere who provide the food that nourishes...