Grow-NY Youth Competition inspires next generation of ag entrepreneurs

News

On November 14 and 15, 10 innovative start-up businesses from across New York state pitched their agri-business ideas in front of a panel of entrepreneurial, agricultural and extension experts at the Holiday Inn in Binghamton for a chance to win...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Food
Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo hands the first place award in the Grow-NY Youth Competition to Arjun Bindra

Cornell Food Spark program gives bone broth startup a boost

Field Note

Edlin Choi was tired of seeing animal bones, fat and other byproducts of the meat industry go to waste. His solution? Korean bone broth.
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Meet Postdoctoral Research Associate Jasdeep Singh!

Spotlight

Jasdeep Singh recently joined the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP), a program within the animal science department, as a postdoctoral fellow. Since coming to Cornell, he has focused on facilitating Cornell University’s part in the Dairy...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Dairy
  • Crops
  • Soil
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Holgerson takes deep dive into health of freshwater lakes

News

Lakes are among the most vital natural resources on Earth. While they hold a small percentage of the planet’s overall water supply, they provide most of the fresh water people depend on daily. A new five-year, $2.5 million grant from the...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
a woman drills into an iced over lake

Tuskegee University student earns poster honor for CROPPS research

News

Kohl Perry ’26 received honors in the undergraduate research poster competition organized by the Tuskegee University Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture, at the 81 st Professional Agricultural Workers Conference (PAWC)...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Josh Manser named supervisor of Cornell AES Tower Road Greenhouses

News

Josh Manser, a 15-year employee of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES), has been promoted to supervisor of the Kenneth Post Laboratory greenhouses on Tower Road. The complex of greenhouses and plant growth...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
Joshua Manser in front of plants in a greenhouse

2023 New York and Vermont Corn Silage Hybrid Evaluation Program

Report

In 2023, the corn silage hybrid evaluation program received 75 entries from 17 seed brands. Hybrid evaluation at multiple environments helps in decision making and expands the reach of this type of data to more farmers. Cornell, UVM, and seed...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
corn silage being chopped and loaded into a truck

Gretchen Hanson MPS '23: At the nexus of agriculture, education and equity

News

Gretchen Hanson , MPS ‘23 came to Cornell hoping to build on her international development implementation experience in agriculture and education. When the opportunity arose to spend a summer in Ghana, she did just that. With support from the...
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Group conducts fieldwork in Ghana

Polson Distinguished Speaker confronts racial injustice through geography

News

The Polson Institute for Global Development welcomed urban geographer Nik Heynen as its inaugural Distinguished Speaker in the Fall 2023 semester. A Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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COMM Updates - 11/14/2023

News

Conference Participation Graduate student Beatrys Rodrigues co-authored/presented the paper “ELSI for AI? Emerging Visions of Governing AI in US Institutions” at the Society for the Social Studies of Science conference. Since the launch of the...
COMM UPDATES from the Department of Communication

Pesticides detected in beeswax

News

An analysis of beeswax in managed honeybee hives in New York finds a wide variety of pesticide, herbicide and fungicide residues, exposing current and future generations of bees to long-term toxicity.

  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Pollinators
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Einhorn Center announces new Engaged Faculty Fellows

News

Twenty-five faculty and academic staff from nine Cornell colleges and units are Engaged Faculty Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year, with projects dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Communication
  • Food Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Microbiology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
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