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To honor a Cornell researcher who keeps our food supply safe, a recently discovered spoilage bacterium has been named for Martin Wiedmann, the Gellert Family Professor in Food Safety. The microbe was formally announced Aug. 12 in the...

Cornellians know there are 161 essential aspects to the Cornell experience. If Josiah McCarthy ‘17 had his way, he would add one more: make a visit to Cornell Plantations. McCarthy, a Plant Sciences major with a concentration in Systematics and...

Minglin Ma, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, was recently named a Young Innovator award winner by Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Ma was one of only ten researchers from across the country to receive the...

Earlier this year, the Cornell University Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic (CU-PDDC) used a new rapid test they developed to identify a small number of oak trees with oak wilt disease on Long Island, in the town on Central Islip. This is a...

This summer marks the 50th Anniversary of the Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML)! SML is extremely excited and proud to be celebrating a half-century of marine science education and research on Appledore Island. What began as a single marine science...

Coming down the final stretch, CALS alumnus Chad Brown ’00 has a commanding lead as the top trainer in the prestigious Saratoga Race Course season. Horses trained by Brown, an animal science alumnus, have claimed 26 victories so far this summer...

Add vortex ring freezing to that long list of “accidents.” Duo An, a doctoral student in the labs of both professor Dan Luo and assistant professor Minglin Ma, in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, was an undergraduate...

Starting this fall, students can choose a new minor in Community Food Systems, a multidisciplinary minor that explores the agricultural, ecological and ethical dimensions of food systems. The minor also includes a supervised practicum with a...

A team of Cornell food science students developed a new beverage combining the smooth texture of drinkable yogurt with mint-flavored pearls that pop in the mouth. Their creation, dubbed “Yojito,” has won the grand prize at a prestigious product...

The food industry has a new tool for identifying specific isolates behind foodborne illness that utilizes the bacteria’s own genomes, reports Cornell food scientists in the journal BMC Genomics, Aug. 8. “Examining the whole genome of the B...

Two extension educators from the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management were honored in July at the annual meeting of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents. Bobbie Severson, extension associate and program leader for...

Cassidy Tryon, a 12 year-old Horseheads native and winner on the popular television show Chopped Junior, stopped by CALS on Aug. 8 to learn more about the fascinating science behind food. The young chef started off her tour with food science...

For 25 years, Cornell University professor of entomology John Sanderson has brought the latest and safest in integrated pest management to greenhouse growers all over New York. Now, for his boundless enthusiasm and contagious love of learning...

Sometimes the only way to get something done is to get everyone in a room and hack out a solution – a “hackathon”, especially when “everyone” is an international group of programmers from plant breeding centers working to create a single...

Cornell University researchers are working on speeding up development, evaluation and adoption of new apple rootstocks and building a $100 million East Coast broccoli industry through new cultivars. These are two Cornell-led projects that...

Christopher Watkins, an expert in postharvest science research, presented a lecture about new technologies for the storage of horticultural products at the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) annual conference in Atlanta on Aug. 8...

A pair of CALS plant disease experts earned honors from the American Phytopathological Society (APS) for their leadership and contributions to the field of plant pathology. Adam Bogdanove and Christine Smart, both of the Plant Pathology and...

Blue-winged warbler populations have declined 66 percent since 1968, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. The two species are known to frequently interbreed where they co-occur, and scientists have been concerned that the more...

The skyline view from Brooklyn Grange’s rooftop is delectable, but fresh organic produce from the organization’s one-acre rooftop Flagship Farm is even more delicious. Director David Lodge and ACSF faculty fellows joined with the College of...

Growing up in Puerto Rico meant Sofia González Martinez never saw apple orchards dotting the landscape. The thought of studying apples as an academic pursuit seemed like a remote possibility for a young student with a love of all plants. That...