Relevance New York dairy farms face increasing pressure from volatile milk prices, rising labor, feed, and other input costs, and ongoing supply chain challenges. These factors limit profitability and make long-term planning difficult. Without...

New research from the USDA Forest Service, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and University of New Mexico identifies where future high-severity fires threaten biodiversity hotspots in the western United States using observations from bird watchers and...

Relevance Hard cider has emerged as a significant economic driver for apple growers, family farms, and agritourism, yet limited availability of suitable cider apple cultivars has constrained industry growth. Many U.S. cider producers rely on...

Relevance Lawns cover millions of acres across the United States and represent one of the most intensively managed land uses in residential and urban environments. Traditional high-input lawn care relies heavily on fertilizers, herbicides, and...

Relevance Many young people today experience limited access to nature-based learning, reducing opportunities to build science literacy, leadership skills, and environmental awareness. Educators have expressed a need for engaging, hands-on...

Ari Novy, Ph.D., a plant scientist, science educator, and leader in botanic-garden management, was named executive director of Cornell Botanic Gardens. He comes to Cornell from San Diego Botanic Gardens, where he served as president and CEO, and...

Ayshwarya Subramanian, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a winner of the Pilot Award.

Five Cornell faculty members are among 126 early-career researchers across North America who have won 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Eighty-three graduate students travelled internationally for fieldwork last summer with the support of research travel grants from the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Their work sent them to every continent except Antarctica and...

One of the most recent technologies for sequestering carbon, enhanced rock weathering could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission recently funded a Cornell DNRE and CBFS group for a new two-year project “Evaluating mysid abundance in Lake Michigan using two decades of fisheries acoustic data.” This project will involve DNRE graduate...

The new, high-resolution maps calculate global emissions from croplands by region, crop and source – enabling hyper-local mitigation.

This update was released in the February 2026 issue of PRO-DAIRY's e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. Monitoring the performance of your dairy business on a regular...

Five new projects from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and The Nature Conservancy seek to protect pollinators, restore oyster habitats, manage flood risk and support “cattlevoltaics.”

The New York Chapter and Northeastern Division of the American Fisheries Society annual meeting was held in Saratoga, New York, from February 4-6. Seven Cornell Biological Field Station (CBFS) representatives attended, including Tom Brooking...

February 11, 2026 Awards Professor danah boyd was selected as a Non-Resident Fellow by the Center for Democracy & Technology, an honor recognizing leading scholars who contribute expertise on technology policy, civil rights, and democratic...

Researchers collaborated to study how those microbes extract platinum group elements from a meteorite in microgravity, with an experiment conducted aboard the International Space Station.

by Jackie Swift Jocelyn Nashtatik ’28 is a sophomore in Animal Science with a concentration in pre-veterinary medicine. Currently she is an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Joseph McFadden , associate professor of dairy cattle biology. We...

Hailing from Belize, Gabriela Garcia joined Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) as an intern in January 2026 from Zamorano University , located in Honduras. This semester, she will be working alongside Carlos Irias on the...

February 3, 2026 Announcements The Department of Communication is pleased to announce the Marshall Engaged Scholars Program. Thanks to the generous and visionary support of Cornell Alumni Terry and Ann Marshall, the program will support a...