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Farmworker initiatives earn community engagement honor

Cornell was recognized for its interdisciplinary farmworker research and collaboration initiatives, which collectively benefit thousands of farmworkers in 40 counties across New York state and beyond. The work began with the Cornell Farmworker...

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
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Plant breeding project gives East African farmers better leafy green option
Phillip Griffiths of Cornell AgriTech has a special connection in East Africa that’s improving the humble collard green to help smallholder farmers—and their communities—live and eat better.
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Cornell program celebrates 50 years of nutrition education
Nutrition educators from across New York state joined Cooperative Extension staff and university faculty June 17-18 for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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USDA awards $1.8M to Cornell for packaging, beverage concentrate research
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded $1.8 million to two Cornell food science research projects.
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Dairy food science program promotes safety, quality

The Cornell Dairy Foods Extension certificate program run by the Department of Food Science in CALS helps industry people learn the ins and outs of product safety and quality.

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CALS, eCornell, specialty food group team up for training
To keep up with a growing demand for specialty foods, a new online certificate training program for buyers has been developed by eCornell, CALS and the Specialty Food Association.
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Summer Scoop is hard to top – unless it’s with sprinkles
Summertime means sunshine, warmth and outdoor fun. And for the staff, faculty and students of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, it means free ice cream at Summer Scoop.
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Cornell AgriTech’s graduate students foster local interest in agricultural science
SAGES, an organization of postdoctoral associates and graduate students at Cornell AgriTech, is celebrating its 10th year of offering scholarships to area high school students.
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Four on faculty receive Carpenter Advising Awards
Four faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising.
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Program expands to help Latin American growers
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Produce Safety Alliance has recently expanded its efforts in order to help Latin American growers adhere to U.S. federal safety regulations.
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Partnership aims to improve food security in Latin America
Cornell University and the Core Foundation have signed a five-year Memorandum of Agreement to explore new ways to promote food security and agricultural innovation in Latin America.
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Gender-sensitive farmer training program transforms Kenya’s rural households
Gender trainings sponsored by Cornell’s Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat project are changing attitudes in East Africa and empowering women to take greater control of household farming activities.
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Cross-class collaboration combines cloud computing with ag
In a new collaboration, students from Dairy Herd Management teamed up with students in Topics in Cloud Computing to learn how to work together to develop the kinds of digital tools that could reshape farming.
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Scientists unearth green treasure – albeit rusty – in the soil
Cornell engineers may have found an environmental treasure trove – rusty though it may be – buried in the soil beneath farmers’ feet.
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Lab of Ornithology debuts its first feature film
“Bird of Prey,” the first feature documentary produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, was released to the public June 13. It tells the story of the great Philippine eagle, the largest and rarest bird of prey in the world.
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Awards fund innovations in digital agriculture
Projects ranging from a soil-swimming robot that can sense conditions in the root zone in real time to computational models that can predict produce spoilage received seed funds from the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture’s new Research Innovation Fund.
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Wolfe offers ag fixes to ‘complex, severe’ climate change
David Wolfe, professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, told a congressional committee in a hearing on agricultural resiliency that climate change impacts have been more complex and severe than scientists had forecast three decades ago.

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3M and Cornell Partner to Develop Environmental Monitoring Handbook

3M Food Safety and CALS announce today they have collaborated – together and with a team of other industry experts – on a comprehensive handbook to help food and beverage manufacturers build and implement environmental monitoring programs.

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Empire apple breeder Roger Way dies at 100

Roger Way, Ph.D. ’53, professor emeritus of pomology and world-renowned apple breeder, died June 2 in State College, Pennsylvania. He was 100 years old.

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Towering ‘Double Allium’ installed at Botanic Gardens
A towering new sculpture welcomes visitors to the Cornell Botanic Gardens: Double Allium, crafted of metal and glass, stands 12 feet tall and sits along the walkway to the Nevin Welcome Center.