The riper, the better?

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New York Times readers want to know: Do fruits that are ripe have greater vitamin value than those that aren’t? And what about sugar? Luckily, Cornell food scientist Rui Hai Liu has the answers. As he told the newspaper’s popular “Q&A” section:...
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Grant named director of New York State IPM

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Jennifer Grant has been named director of the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program (NYS IPM) at Cornell University. Jennifer previously served as an Ornamentals and Community IPM Educator, Community IPM Coordinator, Assistant...

A slice above the rest

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It’s not your average cucumber, that’s for sure. With its creamy white skin and flesh, the “Silver Slicer” doesn’t even look like a cucumber. But the organic variety, started by former Cornell breeder Molly Jahn and perfected by current Calvin...
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Leading the way in pesticide safety education

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When it comes to cockroaches and other creepy-crawlies, our tendency is to take aim with the strongest and quickest chemicals available, or to call the pros in hopes they will unleash their extensive arsenal. Luckily for us, there are people...

Landers designs digital solution for pesticide drift

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It’s a problem that plagues farmers and haunts environmentalists: how to reduce pesticide applications and ensure they are used most effectively. Cornell agricultural engineer Andrew Landers has come up with a novel, high-tech solution, using...

VitisGen: Researching Powdery Mildew Resistance

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In this new video from the VitisGen project, Dr. Lance Cadle-Davidson, adjunct associate professor of plant pathology, is joined by project manager Beth Takacs (Ph.D. ‘12) and research technician Anna Nowogrodzki to describe work being conducted...

Faculty focus: Alon Keinan

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Alon Keinan has been a bit busy. The Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor in Life Science and Technology in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology has published a whopping 11 papers in the past year, contributing to a...

The forest for the trees

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The Cornell forestry program has been honored with two awards recently. As reported in the Department of Natural Resources blog, popular outreach tool ForestConnect was announced as a joint winner, alongside the University of Georgia, of the...

Faculty focus: Drew Margolin

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Status updates, check-ins, tweets, cookies, our every movement laid bare for anyone to see… the corrosion of privacy that makes some of us cringe sends social scientists like Drew Margolin into gushes of glee. New media technology is providing a...

Albany update: Judson Reid and Harvest NY

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On Tuesday, December 10, Judson Reid, senior extension specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), spoke to the New York State Assembly Agriculture Committee about the burgeoning economic impact of CCE’s successful Harvest NY pilot...
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The fraternity of Foursquare

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Does mobile technology make us more attuned to our surroundings, or cause us to tune the city out? Assistant professor of communication Lee Humphreys and Ph.D. student Tony Liao are studying the changing mobile media landscape, quite literally...

Dean Boor weighs in on Congressional inaction on the Farm Bill

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As the Farm Bill continues to languish in Congress, concern is mounting from farmers and food producers to economists and consumer advocates over the potential impacts if no new legislation is signed before the beginning of 2014. For example...
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Agricultural economics and management – of oneself

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In a career that spanned 50 years and several continents, Robert Herdt learned a thing or two – about agriculture, economics and leadership. On the brink of retirement, he shared some of his most valuable lessons with colleagues, friends, and...

Grapes 101: Vine Balance

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Vine Balance and the Role of Vineyard Design [Ed. Note: This article is adapted from both an eXtension article entitled Vine Balance and the Role of Vineyard Design, and a presentation entitled Rootstock Performance and Interactions with...
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CALS student experiences government in action

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David Schatz ’14, Applied Economics and Management major in the Charles H. Dyson School, recently blogged about his experiences in Washington D.C. as part of the Cornell in Washington program. The highlight? Meeting Cornell alumna and Supreme...
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A new blotch on the quality of your favorite wines

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Oenophiles everywhere take note – a newly identified virus may impact the quality of some of your favorite wines. Dubbed “ grapevine red blotch-associated virus” or GRBaV, the pathogen was jointly identified in 2012 by Cornell virologists Marc...
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