Around the Quad:
Birdwatchers Flock to Lab of O Webcams
Phone Apps Make a Splash
New Library Site for Alumni
CALS Courses Get University Nod
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Honors:
Dyson School Ranked No. 3
White House Honors Mary Jo Dudley
Siepel Gets Guggenheim Fellowship
Debaters Fifth in the World
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Transitions:
New Administrative Manager at Plantations
Bonhotal Becomes Director of CWMI
Hancock and Blalock are House Deans
Events:
Coffee with the Dean
May 1, 2012
Ithaca, N.Y.
Wine and the Vine: The Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Origins of Viniculture
May 3, 2012
Ithaca, N.Y.
Food (In)Security featuring Prof. Philip McMichael
May 9, 2012
Chicago, IL
National Public Gardens Day
May 11, 2012
Ithaca, N.Y., and various locations
Migration Celebration at the Lab of Ornithology
May 12, 2012
Ithaca, N.Y.
Mother’s Day Wildflower Breakfast
May 13, 2012
Ithaca, N.Y.
Tour Washington Park Arboretum with Plantations Director Don Rakow
May 19, 2012
Seattle, WA
Commencement
May 27, 2012
Ithaca, N.Y.
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The world population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. But with 1 billion hungry people on Earth today, how will we feed 9 billion? Find out how CALS faculty and students are developing solutions, starting in our own backyard. Also, meet some of our outstanding seniors and Olympian alumni, and read more about the latest happenings on and off campus, in the newly named and freshly redesigned college magazine, periodiCALS. Read More
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In 2008, a trip to Papua New Guinea by two Cornell undergraduates and a recent graduate led to entries in the Guinness Book of World Records and a groundbreaking research paper. Read More |
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A new study finds that the mice who accompanied humans in their dispersal across Earth prove to be an ideal way to document human migration. Read More |
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A study finds that veterans who have experienced battle choose less risky - and therefore less profitable - investments than peers who have no combat experience. Read More |
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Cornell and the global humanitarian organization CARE will fight poverty among the world's most vulnerable populations and create solutions for global concerns, including world hunger and climate change. Read More |
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Agroforestry experts are encouraging farmers to get into fungi, particularly shiitake and lion's mane mushrooms. Camp Mushroom at the Arnot Teaching and Research Forest, April 13-14, will show them how. Read More |
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A grant is funding experiments on using sugar to kill aphids and other agriculturally important pests delivered by genetically altered plants. Read More |
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A $650,000 bequest from the late Professor Emerita Helen L. Wardeberg will support scholarships for College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' transfer students and Mann Library services and purchases. Read More |
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“The unpleasant conclusion from all of this is that in the short run the only thing likely to bring gas prices back down is a slide back into recession. Nobody should want that!” Steve Kyle, of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, comments on FOX News about rising prices at the gas pump.
"Many countries only get religion when faced with food riots or being told they have the highest fertility rate in the world or start worrying about political unrest." Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue, associate professor of development sociology, told the New York Times, for an article about Nigeria's need to control its exploding population.
"One of the things that we're likely to see under climate change is more generations of insects, so the period of time that we have to worry about insects will be expanded," warns climatologist Art DeGaetano in the Press & Sun Bulletin.
“We as a society wouldn't be where we are today without food additives. Think about the things we take for granted in our foods. We have no major nutritional diseases that we can think of because of the nutrient addition to various products,” food scientist Bob Gravani told NPR’s Talk of The Nation.
“Attempting to understand the state of the economy using one economic indicator alone is like using your child’s 'A' in gym class to predict his success in life,” applied economics and management assistant professor Sharon Poczter wrote on FoxNews.com.
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