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Patrick Webb, a globally influential scholar of nutrition, food and agriculture policy, and humanitarian assistance, will join Cornell July 1 as the inaugural executive director of the Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment in...
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Raised on a small dairy farm near Binghamton, Brian Aukema’s path to Cornell was paved by 4-H and a seventh-grade spark that never dimmed. Today, as the New York State 4-H Livestock and Companion Animal Specialist, Aukema builds hands-on...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
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Grocery shopping online could help SNAP families access healthy foods, especially for those with young children or long commutes to grocery stores.

  • Communication
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
Yuqing Chen, a doctoral student and the study’s first author, searches for and counts baby oysters attached to shells in trays in Yonkers, New York.

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A new study offers genetic evidence and proof that farmed eastern oysters are adding to and breeding with wild eastern oyster populations in the western and central Long Island Sound.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Biodiversity
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The Chobani Scholars Program was created to support students pursuing studies in agriculture, including food and animal science. Since its inception in 2019, the program has selected undergraduate students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences from New York as Chobani scholars, each receiving a $20,000 scholarship.
  • Animal Science
  • Food Science
  • Animals
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Schwartz Research Fund Visionary Grants for faculty members in the life sciences aims to provide significant assistance for innovative, visionary research that opens an important new line of inquiry.

  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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As the planet warms, wine-growing regions face an uncertain future. Should they double-down on what they grow or do something entirely different?

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Across partisan lines, Americans broadly believe ultraprocessed foods are addictive and harmful, and support policies that could strengthen safeguards and hold the food industry accountable.

  • Communication
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Food scientists at Cornell AgriTech have developed a liquid-fermentation process that grows protein-rich oyster mushroom mycelium in days rather than weeks and – in a first for the field – have shown that the fungus will thrive on a fatty acid...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
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Eighteen faculty and staff members across Cornell’s state contract colleges have been named recipients of the 2025–26 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.

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Dairy youth gained hands-on experience in milk quality and milk production recently at the Dairy Discovery Workshop hosted by Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY. Held March 27-28 on the Cornell University Ithaca campus, this year’s program was themed...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy
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Financial and environmental assistance planning grants are available through the Dairy Advancement Program (DAP). DAP is designed to enhance long-term viability of New York dairy farms while maintaining a commitment to environmental stewardship...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
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Cornell CALS PRO‑DAIRY is now accepting applications for the 2026–2027 Junior DAIRY LEADER (JDL) program, a yearlong leadership and career‑development experience designed for motivated 16‑ to 19‑year‑old students in 11th or 12th grade who are...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
embryo freezing

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The new freezing method – 30 times faster than current protocols – could be used to improve assisted reproduction in humans or animals or to conserve biodiversity.

  • Animal Science
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Cornell CALS PRO‑DAIRY has released a comprehensive Manure Gas Safety Technical Guide designed to help farmers, farm employees and agricultural service providers better understand and manage the atmospheric hazards associated with manure...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
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Cornell researchers developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently developed CRISPR-based genetic technique in fruit flies, enabling researchers to better study how genes contribute to...

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
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The finding gives New York state another tool to locate and understand the behavior of the endangered Atlantic sturgeon, an iconic species decimated by overfishing.

  • New York State Water Resources Institute
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Water
Installation of RCC Silage Pad at Tiashoke Farms

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A newly released case study by Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY Dairy Environmental Systems and project collaborators is showcasing the successful use of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) for a large-scale dairy silage pad installation at Tiashoke Farms in...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy
Cheryl on a farm tour with schoolkids. A farmer holds a miling machine in his hand, showing it to the kids.

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Cheryl Bilinski didn’t just change careers; she swapped a corporate paycheck for a mission to overhaul what lands on a child's lunch tray. As an agricultural economic development specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Harvest New...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition
Michael Moss presents to NY Youth Institute students

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On a drizzling and cloudy March 20 morning at Cornell University, most of campus looked scant. But on the first floor of Toni Morrison Hall, nearly 100 high school students dressed in suits and blazers flipped through notes and downed cups of...