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In 2025, evidence-based turf solutions from Cornell’s Bluegrass Lane research center and field sites across New York advanced environmentally sound athletic field and golf course management. The turfgrass program at Cornell University continues...

Co-authored by the Cornell Turfgrass Program, the New York Golf Economic & Environmental Impact Report documents how the state’s golf courses provide both recreational and ecological values. The in-depth analysis tracks environmental protection...

A 25-year partnership between Cornell researchers and New York State Parks culminates at the 2025 Ryder Cup, the most sustainable professional golf tournament to date.

Sustainability in turfgrass science can be measured through input efficiency, reduced labor, lower emissions, biological pest control, environmental protection and even the social benefit of keeping recreational greenspaces open to the public...

Researchers found that less-intense management of turfgrass results in greater abundance and diversity of soil-dwelling organisms.

First-year Agricultural Sciences majors capped off their first semester at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at last month’s annual alumni gathering. The gathering helps build community among Agricultural Sciences alumni...

The course, Just Food: Exploring the Modern Food System, benefits from an interdisciplinary pair of instructors: Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor in the Department of Global Development, and Frank Rossi, associate professor of horticulture in the...

Frank Rossi, associate professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, was recognized for his exceptional environmental contribution to the game of golf.

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 When some of the world’s best golfers teed off in the 72-hole Olympic competition, they were navigating fairways and greens imagined and designed by a pair of Cornellians. Gil Hanse, MLA ’89, bested a field of...