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“I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can’t imagine having a better life.” Barbara McClintock ’23, M.A. ’25, Ph.D. ‘27 I recently came across this quote from Dr. McClintock, a CALS alumna, professor, geneticist, and Nobel...
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Just as shrub willow has garnered national interest as a key sustainable bioenergy crop, a pervasive fungus has threatened to undermine its potential as a stable addition to the portfolio of renewable energy sources. A Cornell University...
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Indulgences like sodas and junk foods have long been blamed as the prime culprits responsible for worrying obesity trends across the United States. But a new analysis by a pair of Cornell University researchers suggests that for most people...
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Cornell University’s oldest senior honor society has three new honorary members, including a prominent professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Deborah Streeter, the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of...
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Citrus greening disease has put the squeeze on growers in recent years, stunting fruits, cutting yields and forcing upwards the price consumers pay for fruit and juice at the grocery store. Now two College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)...
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Welcome to the new CALS Alumni Association president, A’ndrea Van Schoick, DVM. Van Schoick earned a B.S. with Honors in Animal Science in 1996, followed by a B.S. in Veterinary Medicine in 1998 and a DVM from the University of Illinois, Urbana...
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Sparks is returning to the faculty of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, where he is a professor. “I have loved working with the staff of the Office of Undergraduate Biology and am very proud of the things we have been able to...
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Professor DiTommaso is a professor in Soil & Crop Sciences section in the School of Integrative Plant Science and the Richard C. Call Director of Agricultural Sciences. He currently teaches two undergraduate courses and one graduate course...
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On July 14, Cornell University Department of Food Science professors Carmen Moraru and David Barbano will join an elite list of scholars as both are honored by the American Dairy Science Association with awards for excellence. The pair are two...
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Donald Rakow, Associate Professor, Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, and former director of Cornell Plantations, received the American Public Gardens Association’s 2015 Award of Merit at the APGA’s 39th Annual Conference...
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During her academic career, Amy Williams, transitioned from the traditional computer science toward computational biology and human genetics. Now an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology During...
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SYRACUSE – During a daylong gathering of academic, government and industry leaders Monday at Onondaga Community College to address growing workforce demands on New York’s expanding food and beverage manufacturing industry, U.S. Sen. Kirsten...
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Soil fungi colonize roots and provide essential nutrients for the majority of the world’s land plants, but new research sheds light on a class of bacteria found living within these fungi. A Cornell study, published in May in the Proceedings of...
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By Valeria San Juan John Hoddinott is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food & Nutrition Economics and Policy, a joint position in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Hoddinott’s...
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For those wishing to lose weight and keep it off, here’s a simple strategy that works: step on a scale each day and track the results. A two-year Cornell study, recently published in the Journal of Obesity, found that frequent self-weighing and...
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“Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock” (Yale University Press, 2015) is written by Stephen W. Kress, Ph.D. ’72, director of the National Audubon Society’s Seabird Restoration Program, with Boston Globe...
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Plant researchers and home gardeners learned about efforts to preserve ancient traits in the tomato at Mann Library’s Harvesting Heritage event June 5. CALS Plant Breeding and Genetics Professor James Giovannoni, a researcher at the Boyce...
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As communication strategists gear up for the 2016 presidential campaign – trying to manipulate public opinion with “message framing” – communication researchers are recruiting political news junkies in a nationwide test of a tool called...
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A diverse group of researchers has teamed up to develop a therapeutic treatment for citrus greening disease, a bacterial infection that threatens U.S. citrus crops. The team received a five-year, $10 million United States Department of...
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As the state’s Land-Grant institution, Cornell University was born to explore science for the public good—a mission that can sometimes require a leap of faith. Just such a leap paid off this year at Cornell Orchards. While crisp apples and fresh...
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