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Just in time for Charter Day, which marks Cornell’s 150th birthday … Through vintage images, explore the history of plant science at Cornell — the students, the faculty, the Nobel laureates and other leaders and more. Special thanks to Ed Cobb...

Upstate women on tap to brew successful careers in beer Walk into a beer brewing class these days and it’s hardly the “all boys club” it once was. Scattered throughout the audience of men, you’ll find women with eyes focused up front and pens in...

Drawings by agricultural sciences major Olivia McCandless ’17 In October, the Department of Entomology celebrated the 150th anniversary of Cornell with the largest Insectapalooza to date. Meet some of the featured small but mighty creatures that...

Gerald A. Beechum, Jr. ‘96 Over 20 years ago as an agricultural economics major, I never could have imagined how Cornell’s vast resources would play a role in two key transitions in my professional life—beginning my first career in finance and...

To streamline the breeding of five staple crops—wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Cornell $18.5 million for a project that will put modular, open-source breeding software resources into the...

• Global Development Section
• School of Integrative Plant Science
• Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

The new strategic plan defines priorities that will keep the college nimble, proactive and well positioned to meet the needs and aspirations of students and stakeholders for decades to come. Work around this year’s objectives is well underway in...

Tristan Zuber, a dairy food processing and safety specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Harvest New York initiative, spent Feb. 26 in Albany promoting New York’s successful yogurt industry. Western New York Senators, led by former...

• Food
• Dairy

PATRICK HOOKER ‘84 I can trace my career path back to a turning point one week in the summer after my freshman year of high school. The legendary ag teacher André Lepine tracked me down and insisted I go to the Future Farmers of America (FFA)...

From resume critiques to mock interviews, a pilot online advising platform is connecting alumni with students seeking to hone their job search skills. The Evisors program, launched in January for alumni and students of the Charles H. Dyson...

We asked professor emeritus Kraig Adler for a succinct commencement speech, with only two minutes on the clock. Ready, set, go! One of my greatest joys as a Cornell professor has been to watch the remarkable transformation that undergrads...

Fifty years after civil rights worker Michael “Mickey” Schwerner ’61 was slain in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan, President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to his family Nov. 24 at the White House. A...

When ordering a Sausage McMuffin at McDonald’s, most of us are thinking about wherever we need to rush after our quick breakfast. Michael Thompson ’77 is thinking about every step of the supply chain that grew the food, processed and distributed...

By Celina Scott-Buechler ’18 Women have played a key role in conservation science since the founding of the field, and in the past century few played a larger role than the late author and scholar Anne LaBastille ’55, Ph.D. ’69. Her Thoreau...

May Berenbaum, Ph.D. ’80, is sympathetic to those who fear spiders, beetles and other creepy-crawlies. As a young person, she too fled from the sight of insects. But as an undergraduate biology major at Yale, she discovered one semester that the...

By Rose Linehan, EN ’17 ​ María Pacheco, M.P.S. ’90, is a Fulbright scholar, consultant to the United Nations Foundation, and founder of Wakami, a company changing the way craftspeople enter the international market. Pacheco’s family moved to...