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Ever wanted to know how to cultivate shiitake mushrooms? Then here’s your chance to learn. This video, part of a new series of how-to videos produced by the eXtension Forest Farming community, features Ken Mudge, associate professor of...

His life was nearly as colorful as the Technicolor images he captured: Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind, Erroll Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood. But the incredible career of M. Peter Keane started out in...

Earlier today it was announced that Dr. Jennifer Seavey has been appointed as the new director of Shoals Marine Laboratory. Seavey comes to Shoals from the Seahorse Key Marine Laboratory, a field station of the University of Florida, where she...

Next time you’re trying to decide between that expensive French Cabernet or Two-Buck Chuck, take a look at what Brian Wansink, John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, has to say about the role that...

Leilah Krounbi, a Ph.D. candidate in the field of crop and soil sciences, is working to develop a surprising solution to the fertilizer needs of farmers in East Africa: pyrolyzed poop. During a recent seminar on campus, Krounbi described her...

Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Dyson School and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, spoke to the PBS Newshour last night about the recent jitters on Wall Street and how they are being generated by market...

Jennifer Grant has been named director of the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program (NYS IPM) at Cornell University. Jennifer previously served as an Ornamentals and Community IPM Educator, Community IPM Coordinator, Assistant...

When it comes to cockroaches and other creepy-crawlies, our tendency is to take aim with the strongest and quickest chemicals available, or to call the pros in hopes they will unleash their extensive arsenal. Luckily for us, there are people...

It’s a problem that plagues farmers and haunts environmentalists: how to reduce pesticide applications and ensure they are used most effectively. Cornell agricultural engineer Andrew Landers has come up with a novel, high-tech solution, using...

In this new video from the VitisGen project, Dr. Lance Cadle-Davidson, adjunct associate professor of plant pathology, is joined by project manager Beth Takacs (Ph.D. ‘12) and research technician Anna Nowogrodzki to describe work being conducted...

2013 was an important year for agriculture in New York. In addition to bountiful harvests of several major crops and the launch of commercially important new varieties of apples and grapes, the state also surpassed California to become the...

Alon Keinan has been a bit busy. The Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor in Life Science and Technology in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology has published a whopping 11 papers in the past year, contributing to a...

Excerpted below is portion of a December 31, 2013, USA Today op-ed from CALS Dean Kathryn Boor highlighting the damaging effects that Americans’ ignorance about agriculture has on the science that sustains our food supply. “Ironically, the...

The Cornell forestry program has been honored with two awards recently. As reported in the Department of Natural Resources blog, popular outreach tool ForestConnect was announced as a joint winner, alongside the University of Georgia, of the...

Status updates, check-ins, tweets, cookies, our every movement laid bare for anyone to see… the corrosion of privacy that makes some of us cringe sends social scientists like Drew Margolin into gushes of glee. New media technology is providing a...