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Did you know that you can track some sharks’ movements on Twitter? Or that the scales on their skin have influenced the way humans design boats, planes, and even swimsuits? Or that the anatomy of sixgill sharks has remained virtually unchanged...

• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bring on the sunshine: Cornell’s new Sutton Road Solar Farm, a two-megawatt energy facility that will offset nearly 40 percent of the annual electricity demand at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., will be fully...

• Cornell AgriTech

Drawings by agricultural sciences major Olivia McCandless ’17 Text by Amanda Garris Ph.D. ‘04 Herring Gulls Think that herring gulls make a racket? The feeling is mutual. Sarah MacLean ’13 and ornithologist David Bonter discovered that a...

Mary Celenza ‘95 I thought about this question from a number of angles. I have taken the kind of chances with jobs that are typically considered big risks. I moved to L.A. on a whim, and now I’ve been here 16 years. At the time I had a great job...

By Billy Kepner Cornell Plantations recently expanded the Fischer Old-Growth Forest natural area in the Town of Newfield, N.Y., through a gift of 17.43 acres donated by David K. Bandler B.S. ′55, MPS ‘71, emeritus professor in the Department of...

• Cornell Botanic Gardens

A six-generation New York family farm with deep Cornell ties celebrated 200 years of continuous operation in August. “Every generation has gone through tough times,” said George Lamont ’57. “You just have to be willing to persevere through the...

Following a four-year project to modernize facilities at Stocking Hall, the Department of Food Science toasted its freshly renovated home with milk, cider, ice cream and New York wine. The Oct. 22 ceremony officially introduced the state-of-the...

• Food Science
• Food
• Dairy

A family with more than three decades of experience in food ingredient technology has enabled the Department of Food Science to pursue big opportunities in small-scale packaging, with the recent hiring of an expert in micro- and nanotechnology...

• Food Science
• Food

A foundation was dug, 120,000 bricks were molded and fired, and sand and crushed stones were stashed for making concrete: The villagers of Masopo in Zambia’s Choma province had laid the groundwork for a new—and much needed—classroom building by...

Just moments after winning the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational last July, Lady Eli—a mare who won all six races that she entered in 2014 and 2015—stepped on a nail. A diligent and patient approach to overcoming the painful, possibly career...

Once dormant like a spore waiting for the right conditions to germinate, a club for fungi aficionados has been revived by a group of dedicated students. The Fantastic Fungi Fanatics (FFF) became an active club again last fall, with Rico Lin ’18...

It’s the first day of class. Students take their seats, pull out their notebooks... and watch dozens of sea lions give birth, mere feet away. Close encounters with sea lions, dolphins and penguins were regular occurrences for students in BIOEE...

• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Ecosystems

Senior Allie Cohen is looking forward to hanging up her lab coat and heading to law school, but not until she untangles a few more mysteries of fruit fly mating. The biology and society senior—and six-year veteran of fruit fly research—will...

An agricultural development agency in Tanzania, a marketing firm in Thailand, and a finance and banking firm in Australia: These are just a few of the workplaces that will host students this summer through the new CALS Global Fellows Program...

• Global Development

With 75% of supermarket sales captured by chains, independent grocers face stiff competition for consumers’ grocery dollars. A new program offered by the Cornell Food Industry Management Program (FIMP) this September will focus on strategies for...

Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES) will be home to a comprehensive center combining food safety research and training for New York growers and producers, offering a farm-to-fork bulwark against foodborne illness in...

• Institute for Food Safety
• Food Science
• Food

In a competition for funds among New York’s Regional Economic Development Councils, the Southern Tier won $500 million over the next five years in New York’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative, including a project that taps CALS expertise in...

Cornell brought its message of education, discovery and engagement to the state capital Jan. 26 for Cornell Day in Albany, taking the opportunity to show off its diverse offerings to lawmakers and visitors to the capital. A casual breakfast and...

The rebuilt Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory Greenhouse opened Feb. 9, continuing the legacy of botanical discovery of its namesake, the first dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The 4,000-square-foot facility on Tower Road...

• School of Integrative Plant Science

A new College of Business will bring together Cornell’s three accredited business programs: the School of Hotel Administration, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of...