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On July 14, Cornell University Department of Food Science professors Carmen Moraru and David Barbano will join an elite list of scholars as both are honored by the American Dairy Science Association with awards for excellence. The pair are two...
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Donald Rakow, Associate Professor, Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, and former director of Cornell Plantations, received the American Public Gardens Association’s 2015 Award of Merit at the APGA’s 39th Annual Conference...
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During her academic career, Amy Williams, transitioned from the traditional computer science toward computational biology and human genetics. Now an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology During...
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SYRACUSE – During a daylong gathering of academic, government and industry leaders Monday at Onondaga Community College to address growing workforce demands on New York’s expanding food and beverage manufacturing industry, U.S. Sen. Kirsten...
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Soil fungi colonize roots and provide essential nutrients for the majority of the world’s land plants, but new research sheds light on a class of bacteria found living within these fungi. A Cornell study, published in May in the Proceedings of...
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By Valeria San Juan John Hoddinott is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food & Nutrition Economics and Policy, a joint position in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Hoddinott’s...
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For those wishing to lose weight and keep it off, here’s a simple strategy that works: step on a scale each day and track the results. A two-year Cornell study, recently published in the Journal of Obesity, found that frequent self-weighing and...
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“Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock” (Yale University Press, 2015) is written by Stephen W. Kress, Ph.D. ’72, director of the National Audubon Society’s Seabird Restoration Program, with Boston Globe...
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Plant researchers and home gardeners learned about efforts to preserve ancient traits in the tomato at Mann Library’s Harvesting Heritage event June 5. CALS Plant Breeding and Genetics Professor James Giovannoni, a researcher at the Boyce...
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As communication strategists gear up for the 2016 presidential campaign – trying to manipulate public opinion with “message framing” – communication researchers are recruiting political news junkies in a nationwide test of a tool called...
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A diverse group of researchers has teamed up to develop a therapeutic treatment for citrus greening disease, a bacterial infection that threatens U.S. citrus crops. The team received a five-year, $10 million United States Department of...
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As the state’s Land-Grant institution, Cornell University was born to explore science for the public good—a mission that can sometimes require a leap of faith. Just such a leap paid off this year at Cornell Orchards. While crisp apples and fresh...
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A new Cornell study of New York state apple orchards finds that pesticides harm wild bees, and fungicides labeled “safe for bees” also indirectly may threaten native pollinators. The research, published June 3 in Proceedings of the Royal Society...
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A Cornell study of food labels in dining halls shows that when people know the calories and fat content in foods, they lean toward healthier fare. Despite municipal and federal legislation in the pipelines for large restaurants and dining...
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Each cell needs to constantly remodel the landscape of its surface because the thin membrane that surrounds all cells is fragile and must be renewed to protect the cell from lysis and death. And that’s where the trouble begins. To remove aged...
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By John Carberry A family with Cornell roots nearly 100 years old is helping the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences promote safe, high-quality foods well into the 21st century. A $3 million gift from the George Gellert family – whose...
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By John Carberry Six years ago, when a contented Ignacio “Iggy” Saldana cruised out in the back of the pack from Adlai Stevenson High School in The Bronx and slid into a comfortable routine of slow mornings and afternoon basketball, he never saw...
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Educating a new audience about genomic selection is not so different from the process itself. It requires time, plenty of preparation and extensive knowledge. And like genomic selection itself, the results may be revolutionary. In April, Mark...
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A new project will harness the power of genome editing – a technique that allows researchers to precisely target, cut, remove and replace DNA in a living cell – to improve rice, a staple crop that feeds half the world’s people. The project, led...
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Airline passengers who eat meals vary in their ability to taste sweet, sour, bitter and salty flavors. In studying how airplane noise affects the palate, Cornell food scientists have found sweetness suppressed and a tasty, tender tomato surprise...
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