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Cornell experts issued a report this week outlining the opportunities and challenges facing the state's farmers and food producers as emerging digital technologies shape the agricultural industry.

Collars with tags that carry an accelerometer – the same technology used in Fitbits for people – are effective non-invasive tools for tracking the health of dairy cows.

The Career Accomplishment Award is considered a capstone for individuals who have achieved extraordinary distinction for their scholarly efforts in research or extension.

Geoffrey Fisher has been named an inaugural New Innovator Award winner from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.

Cornell has been awarded nearly $1.5 million to fund research aimed at promoting safer, more effective pest management.

The willingness to make lifestyle changes to avert climate change may depend on the moral values closely aligned with liberal political leanings, according to Cornell research.

A Facebook post about a bad day, the placement of chocolate milk in the school cafeteria, taxes on sodas: Research on strategies for health and wellbeing is now encroaching on the turf of advertising, social media and behavioral economics. To...

• Nutritional Sciences
• Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
• Communication

The CALS Alumni Association and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences honor alumni who have achieved recognized success in their businesses, professions, or other avocational endeavors; have been actively involved in, worked for, and...

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Stephen B. Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, served on Cornell’s board of trustees for 16 years and as a co-chair of the Far Above capital campaign for ten years, and this is his 45th consecutive year serving on the...

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Mary Maxon Grainger ’79, MPS ’87, and Bradley Grainger ’79 started serving Cornell as undergraduates, and they have never stopped. The CALS grads and longtime Ithacans are two of the six 2016 recipients of the...

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Inside every plant leaf, emerald chloroplasts harness water, light and carbon dioxide and create energy, a fundamental reaction that both is life and gives life. One of its powerhouse enzymes is the target of...

• School of Integrative Plant Science

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 New positions funded as part of the college’s Faculty Renewal Initiative will bring additional expertise in fisheries and fermentations to CALS. The Dwight A. Webster Faculty Fellowship in Fisheries and Aquatic...

• Natural Resources and the Environment Section
• Food Science

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Orange is the new hot color when it comes to nutrition and human health. And thanks to agricultural economist Jan Low, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’94, and her efforts introducing the orange-fleshed sweet potato into...

• Global Development Section
• Global Development