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2013 was an important year for agriculture in New York. In addition to bountiful harvests of several major crops and the launch of commercially important new varieties of apples and grapes, the state also surpassed California to become the...

Alon Keinan has been a bit busy. The Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor in Life Science and Technology in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology has published a whopping 11 papers in the past year, contributing to a...

Excerpted below is portion of a December 31, 2013, USA Today op-ed from CALS Dean Kathryn Boor highlighting the damaging effects that Americans’ ignorance about agriculture has on the science that sustains our food supply. “Ironically, the...

The Cornell forestry program has been honored with two awards recently. As reported in the Department of Natural Resources blog, popular outreach tool ForestConnect was announced as a joint winner, alongside the University of Georgia, of the...

Status updates, check-ins, tweets, cookies, our every movement laid bare for anyone to see… the corrosion of privacy that makes some of us cringe sends social scientists like Drew Margolin into gushes of glee. New media technology is providing a...

Does mobile technology make us more attuned to our surroundings, or cause us to tune the city out? Assistant professor of communication Lee Humphreys and Ph.D. student Tony Liao are studying the changing mobile media landscape, quite literally...

In a career that spanned 50 years and several continents, Robert Herdt learned a thing or two – about agriculture, economics and leadership. On the brink of retirement, he shared some of his most valuable lessons with colleagues, friends, and...

Donald Tobias, executive director of the Cornell University Cooperative Extension office in New York City (CUCE-NYC) since 2005, died Nov. 22 in New York City. He was 68. “Robin and I are deeply saddened to have lost a treasured colleague and...

They may have been top performers amidst the lush landscape and airy altitudes of their native Alps, but Toggenburg goats haven’t fared so well in Sub-Saharan Africa. Imported to Kenya because of their high milk production, the Swiss goats bred...

This story is part of a new, regular feature on CALS Notes devoted to profiling the people and programs in the college committed to promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the CALS community. As part of a CALS-wide commitment to promoting...

With sustained winds of an estimated 195 miles per hour, steady intensification, and a prolonged Category 5 classification, Haiyan – the typhoon that killed thousands of people in the Philippines when it made landfall on Nov. 8 – was about as...

Sometimes the best things really do come in small packages. Minglin Ma, a new assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, is hoping to package cells in novel ways to provide new therapies for diseases like Type 1 diabetes...

We’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not, but Toby Ault would prefer to be prepared, and he’s working to arm scientists and sociologists, ecologists and economists, with as much information as possible to help...

This story is part of a new, regular feature on CALS Notes devoted to profiling the people and programs in the college committed to promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the CALS community. As CALS Notes recently learned, Pamela Tan cares...

Coming from a family of winemakers going back 400 years, Céline Coquard Lenerz, M.S. ’12, never seriously considered any other career path. Her family’s vineyard in Prairie du Sac, Wis.— Wollersheim Winery—was founded in the 1840s and passed...