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Norman C. Dondero, professor emeritus of microbiology, has died at the age of 95. A scientist, artist and naturalist, he was born and grew up in Massachusetts, earning a B.S. at the University of Massachusetts in 1941, an M.S. at the University...

Corals have immune systems? We learned that fun fact and much more in this blog post by ecology and evolutionary biology professor Drew Harvell, who is currently in reefs off the southwest coast of Puerto Rico for three weeks to investigate...

Michael Gore’s first foray into breeding was on his family farm in Virginia. But the budding scientist wasn’t pollinating peas or crossing carrots; he was poring over pedigrees and assessing blood lines – of horses. He assumed he’d become a...

The Albany Times-Union recently published this Op Ed from Dean Boor: Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced that New York has surpassed California as the top producer of yogurt in the U.S. This is a hard-earned and well-deserved honor, but one...

The mighty blue whale is the largest and loudest mammal on earth. Yet its voice is getting lost in the chaotic cacophony of sounds generated by human activities, from offshore development and energy exploration to commercial shipping...

What wine can be found in this enologist’s recycling bin? Recently, it was a Bedell 2009 Merlot, which she described as “complex and very pleasant." However, as Kathy Arnink admits to colleague Chris Gerling in this interview in the Appellation...

When Norman Borlaug first came to India in 1963, millions of Indians lived from “ship to mouth,” surviving on boatloads of wheat imported from the United States. In the 50 years since, India went from producing less than 10 million tonnes of...

Recent media reports have generated concern among some New Yorkers that acid whey, a byproduct of yogurt and other dairy processing, presents a hazard to human health and the environment. But for Andrew Novakovic, E. V. Baker Professor of...

Rayna Bell, ecology and evolutionary biology Ph.D. candidate and National Geographic Young Explorer, was recently on the hunt in the jungles of the African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe for the elusive tadpoles of Leptopelis palmatus...

It boasts thriving organic farming communities, a regional reputation for wine and a dairy industry that claims the highest average milk production per cow in the world. No, it’s not New York state, but Israel, where 15 students recently traveled for an intensive one-week trip.

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Have you ever wondered why the grass along Tower Road looked so miserable even though it runs alongside the Plant Sciences building? A group of students from the “Grassing the Urban Eden” class (HORT 4931) recently re-sod ded the side of the...

Three Cornell faculty members–all from CALS–were recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Kenneth Kemphues, professor of genetics and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics; John Lis, the Barbara...

With more than a billion active accounts worldwide, it can be easy to forget that some people don’t use Facebook. In fact, “non-use” of the social networking site is fairly common, according to new research by communication post-doc Eric P.S...

Did you know the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station has the world’s largest collection of apple varieties? It’s a pomological Noah’s Ark, with 2,500 varieties hailing from as far away as Kazakhstan, where apples first originated. The...

When it comes to climate change, a rose may not be a rose by any other name, after all. According to recent research by Jonathon Schuldt ’04, assistant professor of communication, the terms “global warming” and “climate change” have very...

How can a farmer increase yields while decreasing negative environmental impacts? For many, the answer has been the system of rice intensification (SRI), an interrelated set of farming principles that rely on fewer seeds, less water and a...