CALS mourns loss of CUCE-NYC director Don Tobias

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Donald Tobias, executive director of the Cornell University Cooperative Extension office in New York City (CUCE-NYC) since 2005, died Nov. 22 in New York City. He was 68. “Robin and I are deeply saddened to have lost a treasured colleague and...

Faculty Focus: Heather Huson

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They may have been top performers amidst the lush landscape and airy altitudes of their native Alps, but Toggenburg goats haven’t fared so well in Sub-Saharan Africa. Imported to Kenya because of their high milk production, the Swiss goats bred...

New CALS diversity grants aim to broaden inclusiveness

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This story is part of a new, regular feature on CALS Notes devoted to profiling the people and programs in the college committed to promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the CALS community. As part of a CALS-wide commitment to promoting...

Is Haiyan indicative of the new normal in super storms?

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With sustained winds of an estimated 195 miles per hour, steady intensification, and a prolonged Category 5 classification, Haiyan – the typhoon that killed thousands of people in the Philippines when it made landfall on Nov. 8 – was about as...

Faculty Focus: Minglin Ma

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Sometimes the best things really do come in small packages. Minglin Ma, a new assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, is hoping to package cells in novel ways to provide new therapies for diseases like Type 1 diabetes...

CALS emeritus professor acknowledged for his “luminous” career

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It’s an awe-inspiring display, one which Jim Morin has witnessed thousands of times: tiny pulses of blue, emitted from sesame seed-sized crustaceans called ostracods, lighting up Caribbean ocean reefs in the dark of night. The emeritus professor...
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Faculty Focus: Toby Ault

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We’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not, but Toby Ault would prefer to be prepared, and he’s working to arm scientists and sociologists, ecologists and economists, with as much information as possible to help...

Perspectives on Diversity: CALS Admissions

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This story is part of a new, regular feature on CALS Notes devoted to profiling the people and programs in the college committed to promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the CALS community. As CALS Notes recently learned, Pamela Tan cares...

The Next Generation

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Coming from a family of winemakers going back 400 years, Céline Coquard Lenerz, M.S. ’12, never seriously considered any other career path. Her family’s vineyard in Prairie du Sac, Wis.— Wollersheim Winery—was founded in the 1840s and passed...

Coffman wins inaugural World Agriculture Prize

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Congratulations to Ronnie Coffman, professor of plant breeding & genetics and director of CALS International Programs ( IP-CALS), on being awarded the inaugural World Agriculture Prize by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations...

World Food Day spotlight: Chris Barrett

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October 16 was established as World Food Day in 1979 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations as a symbolic way to mobilize advocacy efforts and strengthen political will to address global issues of hunger...

Faculty Focus: Chris Gerling

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Chris Gerling has become the go-to guy for New York vintners. But did you know his early days at Cornell were spent in entomology, rather than enology? An extension associate since 2008 and manager of the Vinification & Brewing Technology...

Surveying the damage of a new blight on the greenhouse industry

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Home gardeners and flower lovers across the Northeast were crying foul earlier this year when the first reports of impatiens downy mildew began to appear. The disease thrives in moist, cool conditions and can infect leaves of the shade-dwelling...
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Agricultural pathways to better nutrition and poverty reduction

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Is it possible to tackle malnutrition one child at a time? The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people of the 7.1 billion people in the world–or one in eight–were suffering from chronic...

Signs of recovery in seafood stocks

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Those concerned about the sustainability of their seafood have a handy new resource, developed with the help of Patrick J. Sullivan, associate professor of quantitative population and community dynamics in the Department of Natural Resources...
  • Biological Field Station
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Legislators learn about sustainable ag on campus

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On Sept. 4, New York State Assembly members Barbara Lifton (D-125), Samuel Roberts (D-128), Al Stirpe (D-127) and Addie Russell (D-116) were welcomed to CALS for a special sustainable agriculture research tour. After taking in Stocking Hall...
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Cornell students pitch in to clean up local landmark

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On Saturday, August 30, Dan Krall, associate professor of landscape architecture, led a volunteer clean-up of the historic Ithaca City Cemetery. The 220-year-old, 16-acre municipal cemetery is located just down the hill from West Campus and is...