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CALS, eCornell, specialty food group team up for training
To keep up with a growing demand for specialty foods, a new online certificate training program for buyers has been developed by eCornell, CALS and the Specialty Food Association.

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Dairy food science program promotes safety, quality

The Cornell Dairy Foods Extension certificate program run by the Department of Food Science in CALS helps industry people learn the ins and outs of product safety and quality.

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Cornell AgriTech’s graduate students foster local interest in agricultural science
SAGES, an organization of postdoctoral associates and graduate students at Cornell AgriTech, is celebrating its 10th year of offering scholarships to area high school students.
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Summer Scoop is hard to top – unless it’s with sprinkles
Summertime means sunshine, warmth and outdoor fun. And for the staff, faculty and students of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, it means free ice cream at Summer Scoop.
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Four on faculty receive Carpenter Advising Awards
Four faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising.
Cornell students engage with farmers

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Partnership aims to improve food security in Latin America
Cornell University and the Core Foundation have signed a five-year Memorandum of Agreement to explore new ways to promote food security and agricultural innovation in Latin America.
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Program expands to help Latin American growers
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Produce Safety Alliance has recently expanded its efforts in order to help Latin American growers adhere to U.S. federal safety regulations.
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Gender-sensitive farmer training program transforms Kenya’s rural households
Gender trainings sponsored by Cornell’s Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat project are changing attitudes in East Africa and empowering women to take greater control of household farming activities.
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Cross-class collaboration combines cloud computing with ag
In a new collaboration, students from Dairy Herd Management teamed up with students in Topics in Cloud Computing to learn how to work together to develop the kinds of digital tools that could reshape farming.
Amanda Rodewald stands in a congressional hearing room

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Do more for birds, not less, Rodewald tells Congress
Amanda Rodewald, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s senior director of conservation science, testified to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources on the importance of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
David Wolfe testifying before a Congressional Subcomittee

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Wolfe offers ag fixes to ‘complex, severe’ climate change
David Wolfe, professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, told a congressional committee in a hearing on agricultural resiliency that climate change impacts have been more complex and severe than scientists had forecast three decades ago.
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Awards fund innovations in digital agriculture
Projects ranging from a soil-swimming robot that can sense conditions in the root zone in real time to computational models that can predict produce spoilage received seed funds from the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture’s new Research Innovation Fund.
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Scientists unearth green treasure – albeit rusty – in the soil
Cornell engineers may have found an environmental treasure trove – rusty though it may be – buried in the soil beneath farmers’ feet.
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Lab of Ornithology debuts its first feature film
“Bird of Prey,” the first feature documentary produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, was released to the public June 13. It tells the story of the great Philippine eagle, the largest and rarest bird of prey in the world.

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3M and Cornell Partner to Develop Environmental Monitoring Handbook

3M Food Safety and CALS announce today they have collaborated – together and with a team of other industry experts – on a comprehensive handbook to help food and beverage manufacturers build and implement environmental monitoring programs.

Ribbon cutting ceremony for the statue

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Towering ‘Double Allium’ installed at Botanic Gardens
A towering new sculpture welcomes visitors to the Cornell Botanic Gardens: Double Allium, crafted of metal and glass, stands 12 feet tall and sits along the walkway to the Nevin Welcome Center.

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Empire apple breeder Roger Way dies at 100

Roger Way, Ph.D. ’53, professor emeritus of pomology and world-renowned apple breeder, died June 2 in State College, Pennsylvania. He was 100 years old.

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Grant writing course for female faculty tackles funding gap
To address a funding imbalance, the Cornell Women’s Grant Fellows Workshop aims to familiarize female assistant professors with the landscape of federal funders, program officers and grant applications, and to teach tips for writing a winning proposal.
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Scientists discover key plant virus-insect virus interaction
Researchers in Michelle Heck’s lab at the Boyce Thompson Institute are working to better understand how plant viruses interact with aphids on a molecular level, which could lead to better pest-control methods.
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Cornell funds projects in NYC visioning initiative
Four new faculty projects have been selected to receive funding for collaborative, cross-disciplinary opportunities for learning and research in New York City.