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William Boyle ’55, MBA ’56, has given a significant gift to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to support renovations to the Plant Science Building – the largest gift so far to the current college campaign. “Cornell has been a...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
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Field Note

Global food producers face increasing pressure to meet sustainability and nutritional demands. As a result, farmers need practical solutions to produce more food while minimizing environmental impact and ensuring both animal and human health...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Food
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Thirteen faculty members from across Cornell are being honored by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement with this year’s Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Energy
  • Climate Change
An illustration using figures called “similarity trees,” used to infer the evolution of enzyme components essential to transposons, or “jumping genes,” functioning.

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Researchers identified several families of "jumping genes," or transposons, in cyanobacteria and Streptomyces that can find and insert themselves at the telomere, with benefits for the transposon and their bacterial host.

  • Microbiology
  • Evolution
  • Genetics
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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Employment News Graduate Student Pengfei Zhao has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Events On Monday, March 10, 2:55, Associate Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., is...
Benjamin Z. Houlton, center, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, discusses net-zero dairy with Catharine Young, right, executive director of the New York State Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture, and Saharah Moon Chapotin, executive director of the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, at the 2024 Grow-NY Summit in Ithaca.

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Startups in the food and agriculture sectors can apply through May 15.

  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Faculty and staff from across Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell CALS) came together on March 3 to honor 38 awardees at the annual CALS Faculty and Staff Awards.
New York State Assemblyperson Anna Kelles (D-125th District) addresses an Emerson Hall audience on Feb. 28 during “What’s Next for STEM Research,” an expert panel organized by the graduate student-led Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club.

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Experts discussed support for science research during a pair of panels organized by faculty and students on Feb. 28.

  • Communication
Amy Barkley holding a chicken on her farm.

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Amy Barkley is a livestock specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Southwest New York Dairy Livestock and Field Crops Program. Although Amy specializes in poultry, she also supports farmers with beef, sheep, goats, camelids, swine...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Cornell Atkinson is supporting 36 graduate students whose work protects biodiversity, improves health, reduces climate risk and more.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Field Note

Biomethane from New York’s dairy manure and food waste could fuel over 30,000 tractor trailers annually, displacing at least 300 million gallons of diesel. * 12 percent of the NY dairy herd has implemented manure anaerobic digestion (AD) to...
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animals
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Conferences Graduate student Amanda Vilchez (with Eddy Machaca) presented “Beyond Language: Collaborative Translation and Cultural Recovery in Science Communication with Quechua Communities” at the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program...
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New research provides evidence that – depending on your genetic makeup and oral microbiome – starch could contribute to cavities and gum disease.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
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Field Note

From humble beginnings, Erick Amaya’s passion for learning carried him through his undergraduate career to a position with Cornell’s Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) — first as an intern, then as a research technician. While a part of...
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Climate Change
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The process of combining agricultural production and solar panels on the same farmland, known as agrivoltaics, has seen a great leap in Cornell research activity.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Agrivoltaics
  • Energy
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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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A Cornell-led team has developed a method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers using underwater microphones and machine learning, potentially offering a safer and more cost-effective way to monitor this endangered species.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
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Field Note

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At Cornell AgriTech, graduate students play an important role in innovative plant breeding research. In this interview, we speak with Bahiya Zahl, a Ph.D. student in the lab of professor Larry Smart whose work in hemp genetics and breeding could...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers is developing HelioSkin, an aesthetically appealing solar-collection fabric that is inspired by the biological mechanisms that enable plants to bend toward the sun.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Solar