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It’s a springtime ritual that’s occurred for well over a decade. I get home on a Thursday night in late April after a long day of work at my companion animal veterinary practice. My telephone rings: “Hello, is Dr. Kornet in? I’m a student at...

Did you know that you can track some sharks’ movements on Twitter? Or that the scales on their skin have influenced the way humans design boats, planes, and even swimsuits? Or that the anatomy of sixgill sharks has remained virtually unchanged...

• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bring on the sunshine: Cornell’s new Sutton Road Solar Farm, a two-megawatt energy facility that will offset nearly 40 percent of the annual electricity demand at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., will be fully...

• Cornell AgriTech

Drawings by agricultural sciences major Olivia McCandless ’17 Text by Amanda Garris Ph.D. ‘04 Herring Gulls Think that herring gulls make a racket? The feeling is mutual. Sarah MacLean ’13 and ornithologist David Bonter discovered that a...

Mary Celenza ‘95 I thought about this question from a number of angles. I have taken the kind of chances with jobs that are typically considered big risks. I moved to L.A. on a whim, and now I’ve been here 16 years. At the time I had a great job...

By Billy Kepner Cornell Plantations recently expanded the Fischer Old-Growth Forest natural area in the Town of Newfield, N.Y., through a gift of 17.43 acres donated by David K. Bandler B.S. ′55, MPS ‘71, emeritus professor in the Department of...

• Cornell Botanic Gardens

A six-generation New York family farm with deep Cornell ties celebrated 200 years of continuous operation in August. “Every generation has gone through tough times,” said George Lamont ’57. “You just have to be willing to persevere through the...

Following a four-year project to modernize facilities at Stocking Hall, the Department of Food Science toasted its freshly renovated home with milk, cider, ice cream and New York wine. The Oct. 22 ceremony officially introduced the state-of-the...

• Food Science
• Food
• Dairy

A family with more than three decades of experience in food ingredient technology has enabled the Department of Food Science to pursue big opportunities in small-scale packaging, with the recent hiring of an expert in micro- and nanotechnology...

• Food Science
• Food

A foundation was dug, 120,000 bricks were molded and fired, and sand and crushed stones were stashed for making concrete: The villagers of Masopo in Zambia’s Choma province had laid the groundwork for a new—and much needed—classroom building by...

Just moments after winning the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational last July, Lady Eli—a mare who won all six races that she entered in 2014 and 2015—stepped on a nail. A diligent and patient approach to overcoming the painful, possibly career...