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For 25 years, Cornell University professor of entomology John Sanderson has brought the latest and safest in integrated pest management to greenhouse growers all over New York. Now, for his boundless enthusiasm and contagious love of learning...

Sometimes the only way to get something done is to get everyone in a room and hack out a solution – a “hackathon”, especially when “everyone” is an international group of programmers from plant breeding centers working to create a single...

Cornell University researchers are working on speeding up development, evaluation and adoption of new apple rootstocks and building a $100 million East Coast broccoli industry through new cultivars. These are two Cornell-led projects that...

Christopher Watkins, an expert in postharvest science research, presented a lecture about new technologies for the storage of horticultural products at the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) annual conference in Atlanta on Aug. 8...

A pair of CALS plant disease experts earned honors from the American Phytopathological Society (APS) for their leadership and contributions to the field of plant pathology. Adam Bogdanove and Christine Smart, both of the Plant Pathology and...

Blue-winged warbler populations have declined 66 percent since 1968, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. The two species are known to frequently interbreed where they co-occur, and scientists have been concerned that the more...

The skyline view from Brooklyn Grange’s rooftop is delectable, but fresh organic produce from the organization’s one-acre rooftop Flagship Farm is even more delicious. Director David Lodge and ACSF faculty fellows joined with the College of...

Growing up in Puerto Rico meant Sofia González Martinez never saw apple orchards dotting the landscape. The thought of studying apples as an academic pursuit seemed like a remote possibility for a young student with a love of all plants. That...

Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...

Some good news for two recent Cornell Food Science graduates is bad news for food-borne pathogens everywhere. Samantha VanWees ’16 and Genevieve Sullivan ’16 earned first and second place at the annual Institute of Food Technologists’...