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PATRICK HOOKER ‘84 I can trace my career path back to a turning point one week in the summer after my freshman year of high school. The legendary ag teacher André Lepine tracked me down and insisted I go to the Future Farmers of America (FFA)...

From resume critiques to mock interviews, a pilot online advising platform is connecting alumni with students seeking to hone their job search skills. The Evisors program, launched in January for alumni and students of the Charles H. Dyson...

We asked professor emeritus Kraig Adler for a succinct commencement speech, with only two minutes on the clock. Ready, set, go! One of my greatest joys as a Cornell professor has been to watch the remarkable transformation that undergrads...

Fifty years after civil rights worker Michael “Mickey” Schwerner ’61 was slain in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan, President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to his family Nov. 24 at the White House. A...

When ordering a Sausage McMuffin at McDonald’s, most of us are thinking about wherever we need to rush after our quick breakfast. Michael Thompson ’77 is thinking about every step of the supply chain that grew the food, processed and distributed...

By Celina Scott-Buechler ’18 Women have played a key role in conservation science since the founding of the field, and in the past century few played a larger role than the late author and scholar Anne LaBastille ’55, Ph.D. ’69. Her Thoreau...

May Berenbaum, Ph.D. ’80, is sympathetic to those who fear spiders, beetles and other creepy-crawlies. As a young person, she too fled from the sight of insects. But as an undergraduate biology major at Yale, she discovered one semester that the...

By Rose Linehan, EN ’17 ​ María Pacheco, M.P.S. ’90, is a Fulbright scholar, consultant to the United Nations Foundation, and founder of Wakami, a company changing the way craftspeople enter the international market. Pacheco’s family moved to...

Last year, fellow alumni elected Liz Everett ’97 and Mike Troy ’81 to serve four-year terms on Cornell’s Board of Trustees, the governing body responsible for charting the university’s academic and financial direction. Though Everett and Troy...

​As the largest Ebola epidemic in history ravaged West Africa, Karlyn Beer ’06, an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with the CDC’s Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch, traveled to Liberia. In that nation’s Maryland County, Beer spent a...

For 75 minutes, the ideas came at a pace of one every four minutes. Solutions for rural education, for the low graduation rate of African American men, for ethically sourced fashion, and support for victims of on-campus sexual assault. These big...

• Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Meal as Metaphor By Valeria San Juan ’16 Picture this: 20 hungry college students, a three-person restaurant staff, two very patient professors, a breathtaking view of the Ecuadorian Andean mountain range, and a street bustling with life unique...

A team of five graduate students was awarded first place in the annual Better Philadelphia Challenge for their proposal to improve food security in Pennsylvania’s Delaware River Valley over the next century. Landscape architecture students Li-Yu...

• Landscape Architecture

Located just below Libe Slope and home to more than 1,000 transfer and upper class undergraduate students, the five residence halls of the West Campus House System offer a living-learning community for students—and the resident faculty who...

In high school classrooms around the United States, a kit developed at Cornell and brought to market by the Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) is introducing students to the science of biofuels. Developed by Corinne Rutzke, M.S. ’98, Ph.D....

• Biological and Environmental Engineering

By Alex Koeberle ’13 New York farmers foraging for alfalfa varieties have three new, robust options. Developed by professor of plant breeding Donald Viands; senior research associate Julie Hansen ’80, M.S. ’88, Ph.D. ’89; and research support...

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

By Anne Ju Bolstered by a $2.3 million venture capital investment, an agricultural technology startup has moved on from its first home in Cornell’s life sciences business incubator, a little more than a year after it arrived. Agronomic...

• School of Integrative Plant Science

Conventional wisdom holds that re-localizing food systems is not only good for urban consumers hungry for ripe tomatoes and crispy apples, but it also benefits rural communities through greater profits for farmers. A team led by Todd Schmit, an...

• Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
• Food

Since 2013, millions of sea stars native to the Pacific coast of North America from Baja California to southern Alaska have succumbed to a mysterious wasting disease in which their limbs pull away from their bodies and their organs exude through...

• Microbiology