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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the supermarket – nibbling free samples like no one is watching – the Cornell Food and Brand Lab has your number: 28. Shoppers who first received a sample apple slice purchased 28 percent more...

Contested Global Landscapes, an Institute for the Social Sciences theme project, ended this month after three years of collaborative study. But members of the interdisciplinary group will produce a new book series and jointly teach courses and...

Just in time for Charter Day, which marks Cornell’s 150th birthday … Through vintage images, explore the history of plant science at Cornell — the students, the faculty, the Nobel laureates and other leaders and more. Special thanks to Ed Cobb...

Upstate women on tap to brew successful careers in beer Walk into a beer brewing class these days and it’s hardly the “all boys club” it once was. Scattered throughout the audience of men, you’ll find women with eyes focused up front and pens in...

Drawings by agricultural sciences major Olivia McCandless ’17 In October, the Department of Entomology celebrated the 150th anniversary of Cornell with the largest Insectapalooza to date. Meet some of the featured small but mighty creatures that...

Gerald A. Beechum, Jr. ‘96 Over 20 years ago as an agricultural economics major, I never could have imagined how Cornell’s vast resources would play a role in two key transitions in my professional life—beginning my first career in finance and...

To streamline the breeding of five staple crops—wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Cornell $18.5 million for a project that will put modular, open-source breeding software resources into the...

• Global Development Section
• School of Integrative Plant Science
• Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

The new strategic plan defines priorities that will keep the college nimble, proactive and well positioned to meet the needs and aspirations of students and stakeholders for decades to come. Work around this year’s objectives is well underway in...

Tristan Zuber, a dairy food processing and safety specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Harvest New York initiative, spent Feb. 26 in Albany promoting New York’s successful yogurt industry. Western New York Senators, led by former...

• Food
• Dairy