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Donald Tobias, executive director of the Cornell University Cooperative Extension office in New York City (CUCE-NYC) since 2005, died Nov. 22 in New York City. He was 68. “Robin and I are deeply saddened to have lost a treasured colleague and...

They may have been top performers amidst the lush landscape and airy altitudes of their native Alps, but Toggenburg goats haven’t fared so well in Sub-Saharan Africa. Imported to Kenya because of their high milk production, the Swiss goats bred...

This story is part of a new, regular feature on CALS Notes devoted to profiling the people and programs in the college committed to promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the CALS community. As part of a CALS-wide commitment to promoting...

With sustained winds of an estimated 195 miles per hour, steady intensification, and a prolonged Category 5 classification, Haiyan – the typhoon that killed thousands of people in the Philippines when it made landfall on Nov. 8 – was about as...

Sometimes the best things really do come in small packages. Minglin Ma, a new assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, is hoping to package cells in novel ways to provide new therapies for diseases like Type 1 diabetes...

We’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not, but Toby Ault would prefer to be prepared, and he’s working to arm scientists and sociologists, ecologists and economists, with as much information as possible to help...

This story is part of a new, regular feature on CALS Notes devoted to profiling the people and programs in the college committed to promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the CALS community. As CALS Notes recently learned, Pamela Tan cares...

Coming from a family of winemakers going back 400 years, Céline Coquard Lenerz, M.S. ’12, never seriously considered any other career path. Her family’s vineyard in Prairie du Sac, Wis.— Wollersheim Winery—was founded in the 1840s and passed...

Congratulations to Ronnie Coffman, professor of plant breeding & genetics and director of CALS International Programs ( IP-CALS), on being awarded the inaugural World Agriculture Prize by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations...

October 16 was established as World Food Day in 1979 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations as a symbolic way to mobilize advocacy efforts and strengthen political will to address global issues of hunger...

Chris Gerling has become the go-to guy for New York vintners. But did you know his early days at Cornell were spent in entomology, rather than enology? An extension associate since 2008 and manager of the Vinification & Brewing Technology...

Is it possible to tackle malnutrition one child at a time? The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people of the 7.1 billion people in the world–or one in eight–were suffering from chronic...

Horticulture professor David Wolfe has spent the past 25 years studying the ecological impacts of a changing climate. But his investigations have also led him down a different path—one at the intersection of evolution and psychology. At a Sept...

On Saturday, August 30, Dan Krall, associate professor of landscape architecture, led a volunteer clean-up of the historic Ithaca City Cemetery. The 220-year-old, 16-acre municipal cemetery is located just down the hill from West Campus and is...