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In high school, my guidance counselor told me I didn’t have what it would take to get accepted into or succeed at Cornell. It took until I walked into Jerrie Gavalchin’s office at Cornell for me to stop believing my high school counselor was...

Her research focused on autoimmune disease and immunology in animals, with the goal of developing ways to improve animal health and production. She joined Cornell in 1999 as an adjunct associate professor in the Baker Institute for Animal Health...

• Animal Science

Dr. Gavalchin was a gifted educator, advisor and mentor. I remember when I first met her during O-week, all the new animal science students were gathered in Morrison 146, and after a presentation introducing all of the advisors, we were split up...

Although I have known Dr. Gavalchin since my freshman year, I only began to truly get close to her this year. I walked into Dr. Gavalchin’s office for the first time because I felt lost in her immunology course. I learned her door was always...

While I have known about Dr. Gavalchin for my whole college career, I did not get to really know her until my junior year during her immunology class. However, looking back on my interactions with her, I am astounded by how natural our...

Jerrie was a wonderful colleague among the faculty and staff of the department, and an outstanding teacher and mentor of students. She was deeply committed to advising and to the undergraduates in animal science. She maintained the largest...

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