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Flip Filippi proudly displaying a cabbage

News

Maria ‘Flip’ Filippi, local foods program leader and Harvest Kitchen manager for St. Lawrence County Cooperative Extension, is a passionate educator dedicated to meaningful, community-driven work that enriches daily life and fosters connection...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
Two plants springing up for soil

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Options other than neonicotinoids can help farmers who grow large-seeded vegetable crops such as snap bean, dry bean and sweet corn.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Entomology
Joellen Lampman in front of a river

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“Joellen is a dynamic and engaging educator who has connected thousands of New Yorkers with information and resources to identify and protect themselves and their families from ticks and tick-borne diseases,” Gangloff-Kaufmann said. “We are...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
Two people standing next to each other wearing name badges and an award, smiling for he camera. There is another person sitting behind them in the background

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Cornell Integrated Pest Management Pesticide Safety Education Program Lead Michael Helms and newly retired Pesticide Safety Educator Dan Wixted received awards during the annual meeting of the American Association of Pesticide Safety Educators...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
RNA

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Researchers developed machine-learning models that can sift through cell-free RNA and identify key biomarkers for chronic fatigue syndrome, a debilitating disease that is difficult to confirm in patients because its symptoms can be easily...

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
Junior DAIRY LEADER graduates

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Enthusiasm is always palpable at a Junior DAIRY LEADER graduation, held in August on the Cornell campus at Morrison Hall. The day is a culmination of an intense year of hands-on learning, exposure to industry issues, networking, farm tours and...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
Type 1 diabetes testing device

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Cornell researchers have developed an implant system that can treat Type 1 diabetes by supplying extra oxygen to densely packed insulin-secreting cells, without the need for immunosuppression.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Biology
  • Health + Nutrition
Jim Bittner ’80 inspects fruit on a tree

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Bittner-Singer Orchards, a 400-acre farm in Niagara County along the shores of Lake Ontario, looks like your average orchard but is also a site of cutting-edge Cornell research.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Food
composite of winners

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Faculty and students in School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS) received numerous awards and recognitions at the 2025 Annual Conference of American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), July 28-August 1 in New Orleans, Louisiana:
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
Alan Carroll at a Sullivan Fresh mobile market stop
Farmer watering plants in a greenhouse

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Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell CALS) has signed a new articulation agreement with Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3), creating a direct transfer pathway for students pursuing careers in agriculture...
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
Close up of someone testing the temperature of prepared baby formula on their wrist.

News

The findings of a new study reveal how the current instructions for reconstituting powdered formula are ambiguous and can fail to protect against potentially fatal food-borne bacteria.

  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
Alireza Abbaspourrad, left, the Yongkeun Joh Associate Professor of Food Chemistry and Ingredient Technology, and Qike Li work in Abbaspourrad’s lab.

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A new blue colorant might help the food industry steer away from potentially harmful artificial dyes.

  • Food Science
  • Food
World Languages Day 2024 participants — and Touchdown — in Klarman Auditorium. The 2025 event, supported by an Engaged Opportunity Grant, will once again connect TST BOCES and Ithaca High School students with Cornell faculty, students and staff.

News

The Einhorn Center for Community Engagement awarded nine grants to a diverse array of projects that connect classroom learning with community partners.

  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
Susannah Krysko holding a flashlight and smiling, wearing a stop pests shirt

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Prior to joining Cornell IPM, Krysko spent nearly a decade overseeing the Northeast IPM Center’s StopPests in Housing Program, where she provided free IPM training and technical assistance to more than 200 affordable housing properties...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
A group smiles around a poster.

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For a two and a half decades, NMSP has worked to support farmers with sound science, and made strides when it comes to on-farm research and extension. Led by Quirine Ketterings, NMSP focuses on the big picture when it comes to agriculture and...
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Dairy
soil painting of hand making v sign

Multimedia

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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
Picture of Melissa Baideme

Field Note

Melissa Baideme had never worked in the food and beverage world until she jumped in the deep end and started CK Natural Fruit Juice in 2021. Four years later and she’s been named New York State Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small...
Hands holding grain.
field day attendees in background viewing flowery marginal planting

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Photo above: Rebecca Stup (far right in hat with microphone), graduate student in the DiTommaso Lab, discusses her research on the benefits of planting pollinator-friendly strips in field margins. Nearly 200 farmers, educators, industry...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section