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Girl in bike gear stands on top of hay

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Meet Lorelei Meidenbauer ’22, whose passion for affordable housing and social justice in the U.S. is helping create a flourishing world. From supporting rural schools in New York State through grant writing to biking across the country with Bike...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
corn field

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Joe Lawrence is the Dairy Forage System Specialist for Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science PRO-DAIRY. Here he provides insight into the research and extension work accomplished by PRO-DAIRY to evaluate the quality of feeds available on the market for dairy farmers.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science

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Did you always dream of managing greenhouses? My original career aspiration was to be a wildlife biologist, but life had different plans. I was born and raised in Nepal and came to the U.S. to go to Keuka College. While I was working on my...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Girl paints map mural

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With a passion for sustainability and social equity, Alice Sullivan ’22 is blazing a path towards a better world. Guided by Engaged Learning experiences in Global Development, she has engaged in the struggle for farmworkers’ rights in New York...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
Club meeting screengrab

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According to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Education in 2019, nearly 75 percent of all animal science graduates from U.S. colleges and universities were white. Cornell’s Minority Animal Science Students (MASS) club aims to address this disparity by encouraging the success of underrepresented minority students inside and outside the classroom. Started in 2016, MASS is led by student president Brandon Garcia ’23 and faculty adviser Kristan Foster Reed, assistant professor in Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science. We connected with Garcia, Reed and former board member Amanda Cheung ’21 to learn more about the club and its significance to the department.
  • Animal Science
Mikala working with a bail

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Mikala Anderson ’23 is majoring in agricultural sciences with a concentration in education and society at CALS. For the past two summers, she has participated in a summer internship at the Delaware County office of Cornell Cooperative Extension, first as a Cornell Cooperative Extension summer intern and last summer as part of the Dairy Sustainability Key Performance Indicator Project overseen by Quirine Ketterings, professor of nutrient management and director of the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) in the Department of Animal Science. Here, Anderson shares her love of agriculture, and how her time in CALS has shifted her career plans and her perspectives.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science
Men observing cows in a field

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By Fay Benson, CCE South Central NY Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team In my work, first as a grazing dairy farmer and now as a Cornell University Cooperative Extension educator working with graziers across New York State, I have been aware...
  • Organic
  • Dairy
  • Soil
Bekah and cow

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Cornell Animal Science Dairy Youth Extension and New York State 4-H provide youth programs for those interested in livestock, pet species, animal biology and production systems. These programs are catalysts for personal growth and development, encouraging leadership, cooperation, and marketable skills for the future. Bekah Martz '25 has been part of 4-H since she was 12 years old and participated in dairy youth extension throughout high school. We sat down with Martz to learn how these experiences led her to study at Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science.
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Group of alumni stand in front of tall tree

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Lead NY is for committed leaders in the food, agriculture and natural resource sectors who wish to step up and make a difference in their community. Lisa Ford (LeadNY's class 11), reflects on a recent alumni trip to Costa Rica where leaders from...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
Data chart with magnifying glass

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It can be a cumbersome process for projects to collect and report performance metrics to donors only to see the data disappear into a black box of reporting systems. So, then we ask: how can project members, especially local partners, make...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
sheep in barn

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Shadirah Shepherd graduated from Cornell in 2018 with a major in Animal Science. She is now entering her third year studying for a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Melbourne. Shepherd reflects back on her time in Cornell’s Animal Science Program and the impact it has had on her career.
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
NMSP team at SUNY Morrisville

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This past spring, undergraduate students at SUNY Morrisville in Dr. Jennifer Gilbert Jenkins ’ Soil Fertility course connected classroom knowledge about soil health and sustainability with actual farm assessments. They utilized the Nutrient Mass...
  • Animal Science
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
Lydia and NMSP team

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On December 17th, 2021, Lydia Young graduated from SUNY Morrisville with a focus on dairy management and agricultural mechanics. Throughout the summer and fall semester of 2021, Young participated in an internship program with the Nutrient...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
SAGES officers pose after apple picking

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Ashley Jernigan is a graduate student at Cornell AgriTech working under the direction of Kyle Wickings , associate professor of entomology. When Jernigan isn’t performing research that leads to improved soil health and crop production in New...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Megan Wittmeyer ’22

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Agricultural science major, Megan Wittmeyer ’22, spent the summer completing a joint internship between the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) , run by Quirine Ketterings , professor of nutrient management in the Department of Animal...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science

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Scientific change is advanced when the public is informed, so we’ve asked faculty and staff across the department to share their most pressing messages.

  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
Megan Lamb ’22 at the The William H Miner Agricultural Research Institute

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Megan Lamb ’22, an agricultural sciences major, participated in a joint summer internship program between the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP ) and the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute . Lamb’s internship was made...
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science
A woman holding a box of preserved insects

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A new ant species recently discovered in New Mexico has been named Strumigenys moreauviae, after CALS faculty member Corrie Moreau, the Martha N. and John C. Moser Professor Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity.
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
Eugene Won's Aquaculture lab

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Eugene Won is a senior research associate in the Department of Animal Science who studies fish physiology and develops sustainable aquaculture feeds.
  • Animal Science
  • Food
  • Fish
Cornell Raptor Program

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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Animals