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Her research focused on autoimmune disease and immunology in animals, with the goal of developing ways to improve animal health and production. She joined Cornell in 1999 as an adjunct associate professor in the Baker Institute for Animal Health...

• Animal Science

Since requesting emergency seed-grant proposals in early April, Cornell Atkinson has announced a total of seven Rapid Response Fund grants, including five since the start of May. Also among the newest faculty projects to be funded are studies of...

• Cornell Atkinson
• Community and Regional Development Institute
• Global Development Section

• School of Integrative Plant Science
• Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
• Food Science

Alejandro Calixto became director of New York State Integrated Pest Managment (NYSIPM) at Cornell AgriTech in may. Calixto brings experience with the Land Grant system and mission from extension and research appointments in the Texas A&M University System focused on ecology and management of urban and agricultural insect pests. His expertise will be an asset to growers across New York state.

• Cornell AgriTech
• Cornell Cooperative Extension

Gavalchin’s research focused on autoimmune disease and immunology in animals, aimed at deriving strategies to improve animal health and production (goods from animals). She was also a teacher and mentor to hundreds of students. “During an...

• Animal Science
• Microbiology

This Ezra series profiles recently hired faculty members across Cornell’s colleges, schools and units. In their own ways, these researchers, scholars and teachers embody the university’s creative and collaborative vitality. Below, we're...

• Cornell AgriTech
• Department of Entomology
• Agriculture

From a leading dairy farmer in Columbia County to a legendary Cornell Cooperative Extension leader in New York City, from a passionate director of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe in the northernmost reaches of the state to a devoted veterinarian in...

• Cornell Cooperative Extension
• Dairy
• Communication

“Most of the innovation has been in trying to find new ways to administer insulin or develop new types of insulin. But at the end of the day, that’s not really a functional cure,” says Shariati, a biomedical engineering major in the College of...

• Biological and Environmental Engineering
• Biology