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Jian Hua checking on Arabidopsis plants

Field Note

Jian Hua is a professor in the Plant Biology Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science . Her discoveries of how temperature and other environmental factors affect plant growth and immune response provide fundamental guidance for...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
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Field Note

Research at Cornell in fruit IPM has created solutions that, in some cases, have erased the need for pesticide applications. I work with CALS faculty and CCE educators to deliver IPM solutions to the fruit industry. I truly stand on the...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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News

In a nationally representative survey of more than 1,000 American adults conducted in February, less than half of respondents said they believed the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines provided strong protection against COVID-19 a week or two...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Biology
  • Communication
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Spotlight

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development

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Anna Katharine Mansfield , an enologist known for her work in elevating the success of New York state’s craft beverage industry, has been appointed associate director of Cornell AgriTech , effective July 1. As an associate professor of food...

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Craft Beverage Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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News

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
wheat

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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
thunderstorm approaches cornfields

News

As an atmospheric sciences major in Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Sillin has used his platform for everything from monitoring developing storms, to combining datasets to reveal new observations about how radar...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Communication
  • Environment
yellow fungi growing on wood

News

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Microbiology
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News

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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News

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
workers installing equipment in the future Discovery Kitchen

News

Welcome to the Discovery Kitchen, a state-of the-art teaching kitchen now under construction through a partnership between Cornell Dining and the Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS)
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food Science
  • Food
Chris Barrett speaking during a webinar on a labtop

News

“We’re looking expressly beyond the Sustainable Development Goal horizon of 2030,” said Barrett, the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management in Cornell’s Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
Green wheat in a field

News

Mario Herrero will be a professor of sustainable food systems and global change in the Department of Global Development, and he has been appointed to a five-year term as a Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences. Herrero...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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News

House finch eye disease causes red, swollen, watery or crusty eyes. Afflicted birds can recover, but may die because they cannot see well enough to find food or avoid predators. The latest analyses, based on the observations of Project...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Bacteria
Cornell weed science team posing for group shot

News

The American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) has recognized Liang Cheng, a doctoral candidate in Jenny Kao-Kniffin’s research program, as a 2021 ASHS Outstanding Graduate Horticulture Student. Winners are chosen based on their academic...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
Anu Rangarajan speaking during a webinat

News

“They’re highly experienced, have managed large farms, have all sorts of skills, and most plan to spend a lifetime in agriculture,” Anu Rangarajan, director of the Cornell Small Farms Program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

News

Van Soest’s pioneering work permanently changed the chemical and in vitro analysis of feeds and the understanding of herbivore nutrition. His novel and revolutionary methods of analysis created the standard for how researchers measure the...

  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Animals