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Since requesting emergency seed-grant proposals in early April, Cornell Atkinson has announced a total of seven Rapid Response Fund grants, including five since the start of May. Also among the newest faculty projects to be funded are studies of...

• Cornell Atkinson
• Community and Regional Development Institute
• Global Development Section

• School of Integrative Plant Science
• Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
• Food Science

Research focus: I study how the physical and spatial attributes of food processing environments influence the formation of microbial communities on those environmental surfaces and make it easier or more difficult to manage that environmental...

• Food Science
• Food
• Bacteria

Research focus: proximal and remote plant disease sensing and applied grape pathology Research summary: I study how proximal and remote sensing can be used to make earlier, faster, and more accurate grape disease detection and management...

• School of Integrative Plant Science
• Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
• Plants

Alejandro Calixto became director of New York State Integrated Pest Managment (NYSIPM) at Cornell AgriTech in may. Calixto brings experience with the Land Grant system and mission from extension and research appointments in the Texas A&M University System focused on ecology and management of urban and agricultural insect pests. His expertise will be an asset to growers across New York state.

• Cornell AgriTech
• Cornell Cooperative Extension

Gavalchin’s research focused on autoimmune disease and immunology in animals, aimed at deriving strategies to improve animal health and production (goods from animals). She was also a teacher and mentor to hundreds of students. “During an...

• Animal Science
• Microbiology

This Ezra series profiles recently hired faculty members across Cornell’s colleges, schools and units. In their own ways, these researchers, scholars and teachers embody the university’s creative and collaborative vitality. Below, we're...

• Cornell AgriTech
• Department of Entomology
• Agriculture

From a leading dairy farmer in Columbia County to a legendary Cornell Cooperative Extension leader in New York City, from a passionate director of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe in the northernmost reaches of the state to a devoted veterinarian in...

• Cornell Cooperative Extension
• Dairy
• Communication