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Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Dyson School and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, spoke to the PBS Newshour last night about the recent jitters on Wall Street and how they are being generated by market...

Jennifer Grant has been named director of the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program (NYS IPM) at Cornell University. Jennifer previously served as an Ornamentals and Community IPM Educator, Community IPM Coordinator, Assistant...

When it comes to cockroaches and other creepy-crawlies, our tendency is to take aim with the strongest and quickest chemicals available, or to call the pros in hopes they will unleash their extensive arsenal. Luckily for us, there are people...

It’s a problem that plagues farmers and haunts environmentalists: how to reduce pesticide applications and ensure they are used most effectively. Cornell agricultural engineer Andrew Landers has come up with a novel, high-tech solution, using...

In this new video from the VitisGen project, Dr. Lance Cadle-Davidson, adjunct associate professor of plant pathology, is joined by project manager Beth Takacs (Ph.D. ‘12) and research technician Anna Nowogrodzki to describe work being conducted...

2013 was an important year for agriculture in New York. In addition to bountiful harvests of several major crops and the launch of commercially important new varieties of apples and grapes, the state also surpassed California to become the...

Alon Keinan has been a bit busy. The Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor in Life Science and Technology in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology has published a whopping 11 papers in the past year, contributing to a...

Excerpted below is portion of a December 31, 2013, USA Today op-ed from CALS Dean Kathryn Boor highlighting the damaging effects that Americans’ ignorance about agriculture has on the science that sustains our food supply. “Ironically, the...

The Cornell forestry program has been honored with two awards recently. As reported in the Department of Natural Resources blog, popular outreach tool ForestConnect was announced as a joint winner, alongside the University of Georgia, of the...

Status updates, check-ins, tweets, cookies, our every movement laid bare for anyone to see… the corrosion of privacy that makes some of us cringe sends social scientists like Drew Margolin into gushes of glee. New media technology is providing a...

Does mobile technology make us more attuned to our surroundings, or cause us to tune the city out? Assistant professor of communication Lee Humphreys and Ph.D. student Tony Liao are studying the changing mobile media landscape, quite literally...

In a career that spanned 50 years and several continents, Robert Herdt learned a thing or two – about agriculture, economics and leadership. On the brink of retirement, he shared some of his most valuable lessons with colleagues, friends, and...

Vine Balance and the Role of Vineyard Design [Ed. Note: This article is adapted from both an eXtension article entitled Vine Balance and the Role of Vineyard Design, and a presentation entitled Rootstock Performance and Interactions with...

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