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Rice can help NYS farms profit from climate-change flooding

Cornell Cooperative Extension is helping New York state farmers learn how to grow rice, a potentially lucrative crop that can thrive on flood-prone land as a hedge against climate change.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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CALS offers new interdisciplinary minor in digital agriculture

  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Animal Science
  • Department of Communication
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What if plants could talk?
Susan McCouch, a professor of plant breeding and genetics in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences (SIPS), believes they can.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Environment
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How do we nourish people and the planet?
As the world population grows and climate change threatens agriculture and global food systems, researchers across CALS are reimagining agri-food systems for the 21st century.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Animal Science
  • Food Science

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Cornell CALS faculty recognized among most influential scientists globally

Ten professors from Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are among the most highly cited researchers in the world.

  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Food Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Diane Bailey to head Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
Diane Bailey, the Geri Gay Professor of Communication, has begun a three-year term as director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA). She plans to maintain current programming while improving outreach to the Global South, to...
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Communication
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$25M center will use digital tools to ‘communicate’ with plants
A new multi-institution, transdisciplinary center will develop systems for two-way communication with plants, allowing scientists to remotely sense a plant’s biology and its immediate ecosystem, in hopes of one day using the information to improve plant growth.
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Residence hall names honor McClintock, Hu, Cayuga Nation
For the Indigenous Cayuga Nation, who call themselves Gayogo̱hó ꞉nǫʼ (pronounced Guy-yo-KO-no), Cornell will use the word Ganędagǫ: (pronounced Gah-NEH-dah-go) – literally meaning “it’s in the hill” in the Gayogo̱ hó ꞉nǫ' language. This is the...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Food supply chain app wins digital ag hackathon
The event, held virtually March 5-7, brought together 176 students from 32 teams representing five of the world’s top agriculture schools for a 36-hour hackathon. A mix of undergraduate and graduate students in fields ranging from agriculture...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Radical Collaboration sees new hires, custom approaches
Provost Michael Kotlikoff launched the initiative in fall 2016 across six cross-college discipline areas, each covered by a faculty task force: nanoscale science and microsystems engineering; genome biology; data science; sustainability...
  • Computational Biology
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics

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CALS faculty among most cited researchers in the world

Seven faculty members in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences were named to the prestigious list of Highly Cited Researchers.