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Susannah Krysko holding a flashlight and smiling, wearing a stop pests shirt

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Prior to joining Cornell IPM, Krysko spent nearly a decade overseeing the Northeast IPM Center’s StopPests in Housing Program, where she provided free IPM training and technical assistance to more than 200 affordable housing properties...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
A group smiles around a poster.

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For a two and a half decades, NMSP has worked to support farmers with sound science, and made strides when it comes to on-farm research and extension. Led by Quirine Ketterings, NMSP focuses on the big picture when it comes to agriculture and...
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Dairy
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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
Hands holding grain.
field day attendees in background viewing flowery marginal planting

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Photo above: Rebecca Stup (far right in hat with microphone), graduate student in the DiTommaso Lab, discusses her research on the benefits of planting pollinator-friendly strips in field margins. Nearly 200 farmers, educators, industry...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Robert Batt - Executive Director, Orleans CCE

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Robert Batt began his Cooperative Extension journey began when he was just eight years old as a 4-H participant, sparking a lifelong passion for community development and leadership. From early experiences at county fairs to his current role as...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Kassidy Bates (left), 10, and Genayah Desousa, 10, from Hempstead, New York, point to fish and crabs hauled in from the bay at Jones Beach State Park.
Researcher studying food

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For decades, Cornell's food science students have dominated a national competition. This year, it was a near-sweep.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
  • Food
Students from the Children and Youth Hub Station in Hempstead, New York, use individual landing nets to catch European green crabs at Jones Beach State Park.

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Each summer at Jones Beach State Park, Cornell Cooperative Extension Nassau County and partners engage more than 200 local kids, often from under-resourced communities, with marine wildlife and ecology, water safety and sustainability education.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Sea Grant NY
  • Water
Two cans of Pure Brew on an assembly line

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This week, cool down at one of Seneca Lake's breweries or restaurants with a pint of PURE Brew made with a new AgriTech hop variety.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
The Shapp Pond Dam near the outlet of the East Branch of Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County.

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Water resource managers are increasingly investigating removing dams to restore connectivity and improve aquatic habitats, water quality and fish passage.

  • New York State Water Resources Institute
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Water
cross-section of a cassava

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A $4.8  million gift will allow Cornell and partners to expand a project to improve Tanzania’s cassava seed system.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
  • Food
Claire Wardle, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, celebrates becoming a U.S. citizen at a naturalization ceremony held at the College of Veterinary Medicine on July 23.

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Twenty people from 12 countries swore the oath of allegiance to the United States to become new citizens at a naturalization ceremony held at the College of Veterinary Medicine on July 23.

  • Department of Communication
Mark Sorrells, professor of plant breeding and genetics stands in a barley field

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LakeEffect, the first winter malting barley released by the Cornell Small Grains Breeding Program, produces high yields, is disease resistant and has a good malting profile, researchers in the School of Integrative Plant Science said.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Moose wades into a creek

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Two types of parasites that often use deer as hosts, but rarely lead to illness in them, are much more problematic in moose, where they can cause many symptoms and be fatal.

  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Animals
Yellow rust on wheat

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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
two people standing together

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The new PRO-LIVESTOCK team will develop and implement programs statewide and conduct applied research in collaboration with Cornell faculty and Cornell Cooperative Extension educators. PRO-LIVESTOCK mirrors Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY, a nationally...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • PRO-LIVESTOCK
A harmful algae bloom along the west shore of Cayuga Lake.

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A new study examines how a cyanobacteria manipulates its environment to give itself advantages to take over the water column, leading to harmful algal blooms and mats in lakes during hot summers.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Water
Bowl of romaine lettuce

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Americans eat more romaine than any other lettuce. But it has been plagued by recurrent foodborne-illness outbreaks.

  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition