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Technician Ben Aliperti loads a string of hop vines into the hop harvester to pick off the cones at Cornell AgriTech.

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The Cornell Hop Breeding Program aims to give New York growers and brewers cultivars suited to the state's climate and disease pressure.

  • Horticulture Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Cornell AgriTech
Doctoral student Sylvana Ross spent the summer leading the Cincinnati Urban Ecology Study to better understand the insects in the city’s green spaces.

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Doctoral student Sylvana Ross and a team of Cincinnati youths spent their summer studying city-dwelling insects, amassing data that can inform decisions that support healthy green spaces.

  • Entomology
  • Pollinators
Joanna Alario holding an award at the Graduate Excellence and Impact Awards Celebration

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September 4, 2026
Junior DAIRY LEADER 2026 class

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Enthusiasm is always palpable at a Junior DAIRY LEADER graduation, held in August on the Cornell campus at Stocking Hall. The day is a culmination of an intense year of hands-on learning, exposure to industry issues, networking, farm tours and...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
Prototype robot harvesting apples

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A Cornell-led research project is developing robots that can perform labor-intensive orchard operations; it’s supported by a four-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative.

  • Food
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
Microscopy image of a mutant flower bud with wrinkled and irregular sepals

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This discovery could help engineer living materials into different forms, such as the custom of growing bridges from roots in India, and breeding kale so it’s smooth instead of crinkly.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants
Walnut Ridge Dairy team

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The PRO-DAIRY Agriservice Awards recognize outstanding contributions to New York agriculture and long-standing support of the PRO-DAIRY program. “This year’s recipients represent the strong partnerships that help drive innovation, education and...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
three women stand together while one of them holds a cat with a shaved belly

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by Angelina Tang '28 Millions of pets in the United States enter animal shelters every year, putting facilities at capacity with no end in sight anytime soon. Couple that with a trend of dogs, particularly large dogs, spending more and more time...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
Kathys Burns in the Voice of the Farmer garden at the NY State Fair.

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Kathy Burns' path to Cornell Cooperative Extension Onondaga County began with a chance discovery: a job listing for a Master Gardener Program Coordinator that caught her eye. She applied, drawn by the opportunity to combine her experience...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension

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Celebrate birds with a fun-filled day of free workshops, presentations, bird walks, and more at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology on Sept. 12 from 10 a.m to 3 p.m.

  • Lab of Ornithology
Nutritious food

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Folic acid does not elevate toxic formaldehyde in the body, according to a new study on mice and human cancer patients who consumed high doses.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
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As an 8-year-old with a market turkey project, Autumn Lavine had no idea that 4-H would become her life's work. Now the 4-H New York State Fair and international exchange coordinator, Lavine has spent more than 20 years helping youth build...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
McGraw tower at Cornell University

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Seven Cornell research teams have received Center for Advanced Technology grants to advance early-stage life science technologies through collaborations with biotechnology companies across New York state.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture
Infection

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Diet changes and infection resize an organism’s intestines through different cellular strategies. In malnourished fruit flies, infectious microbes became a source of food, not just a threat.

  • Entomology
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
a man holds a vial of liquid and talks with another man in a white lab coat in a barn

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Cows depend on microbes to live. Thousands of different species inhabit the rumen, the largest section of a cow’s four-section stomach. They ferment the grass that cow eats and extract nutrients, providing metabolites essential for the cow to...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Microbial biology
Matthew LeRoux (right), Cornell extension associate and founder of MeatSuite, talks with MeatSuite-user Bill Morse of Bottomland Farm at the East Hill Plaza Farmers’ Market on Aug. 19.

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The free website, called MeatSuite, helps customers find local meat producers and estimates the costs and savings of buying meat in bulk.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
Corn field

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Preliminary Cornell research on managing the dreaded seedcorn maggot is giving hope to growers across the state ahead of New York’s 2029 ban on neonicotinoid pesticides in field crops: Side-by-side farm trials of neonic-treated vs. untreated...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Agriculture
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Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY has hired Cesar Matamoros, Ph.D., for a newly-created precision dairy nutrition specialist position. Matamoros will focus statewide on increasing production and nutrient use efficiency of dairy farms in New York to meet...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • PRO-DAIRY
NYC skyline from central park

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Researchers used satellite images to identify 1.8 million trees in New York City, a new approach that could be broadly implemented to increase cooling and improve air quality in cities.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Environment
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Dear Students, Faculty, Alumni and Friends of the AIISP, We are writing to inform you that Cornell's American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) will transition its administrative home from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program