Search for News & Stories

Fundamental research, from the inner workings of cells to the physics of food, builds towards major leaps forward in agriculture, medicine and technology. Visit the stacks with this sample of recent findings translated into succinct science...

The creation of a unique ice cream flavor honoring an incoming Cornell University president has been a longstanding Cornell Dairy tradition. The effort to mark the tenure of President Elizabeth Garrett comes with a twist: the largest single...

By Angie Kamath ‘97 The best analogy I can draw to how I have managed my career is to liken it to a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. I recently discovered this children’s book genre with my 7-year-old daughter, and it strikes me as the perfect...

The Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance, with support from the feed industry, has raised $1 million to create two new dairy-focused faculty positions in the Department of Animal Science. The alliance, a 300-member trade organization...

• Animal Science

What started with a promise—and a challenge—recently delivered six new faculty positions for the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. The latest $6.5 million in gifts from three families has raised the total number of...

• Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

James White ’39, Ph.D. ’44, first set foot in Stocking Hall when he arrived on campus as a freshman in 1934 to study bacteriology. As faculty member in the former Department of Dairy Industry, he enriched the building with his expertise in milk...

By John Carberry A $3 million gift from the George Gellert family—whose Gellert Global Group includes one of the largest collections of privately held food importing companies in North America—has created a new endowed professorship in the...

• Food Science
• Food

A gift from H. Laurance “Larry” Fuller ’60 and Nancy Lawrence Fuller ’62 has given wings to a research program at the Lab of Ornithology, with the establishment of the Fuller Professorship of Ornithology. The inaugural professor in this endowed...

By John Carberry He’s remembered as a dedicated mycologist, a generous brother and a “sweet and down-to-earth” mentor—and now the late Royall Tyler Moore will be remembered by generations of Cornell students as the man who helped make their...

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

When I was younger I struggled with the words mine and my. I would feel almost embarrassed to claim possessions as my own. As I’ve grown older the things that are mine were earned through my own hands, my own mind, and the expression of that...

Brad Marshall ’97 and Heather Sandford ’97- Small-business owners We moved back to the Ithaca area 12 years ago and started homesteading and raising animals and food for ourselves, while having other jobs as well. We had the idea that there wasn...

Savneet Singh - Young Alumni Achievement Award ​Savneet Singh credits his father with pushing him to take risks while giving him the freedom to make mistakes, a boldness that has fueled his rapid ascent from investment banking analyst to...

Those who know me well know that I cherish my trips back to Ithaca and that I visit as often as possible. In fact, even though I live in metro Washington, D.C., I am often asked if I live in the 14850 zip code (perhaps as a result of my...

By John Carberry A team of faculty and extension experts have cooked up a new recipe for a long-running food science course, one instructors and students say will open doors to future employment. Food Safety Assurance (FDSC 3960) has been...

• Food Science
• Food

Jonathan Gorman ’16 and Zachia Gray ’16 are the first students to study abroad in Argentina as part of a new pre-veterinary CALS Exchange Program. The students traveled to Esperanza, Argentina, in January to study at the Facultad de Ciencias...

• Animal Science
• Animals

In December 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced that they would normalize relations between our countries. By January 2015, Cornell’s first two undergraduates were on their way to study abroad in Havana...