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News

Researchers are hoping a fly no larger than a grain of rice and a predatory beetle may work together to combat an invasive pest that is devastating hemlocks in Fall Creek and throughout eastern North America.

  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Entomology
  • Environment
A group of eight people wearing red aprons standing in a row.

News

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
Women's dialogue circle

Field Note

Sushmi Majumder ’25 is envisioning new possibilities for community-based empowerment with solutions at the nexus of communication and global development. As a CALS Global Fellow, Sushmi implemented a storytelling initiative that empowered local...
  • CALS Global Fellows Program
  • Department of Communication
  • Global Development Section

News

Linda Nicholson, professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, is a recipient of the 2023 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity.

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Genetics
Kenong Xu stands in an orchard and measures a weeping apple branch in an orchard at Cornell AgriTech

News

Plant geneticists have identified a mutation in a gene that causes the “weeping” architecture – branches growing downwards – in apple trees, a finding that could improve orchard fruit production.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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News

A Cornell-led study provides the strongest evidence yet that omega-3 fatty acids, which are abundant in fish and fish oil supplements, may be important for lung health.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
Cornell AES farm managers speaking with students

News

Two long-time research farm managers — with a combined 70 years of dedication to Cornell — retired this year, after careers spent facilitating research that has strengthened New York’s food system and agricultural industry. Steve McKay, former...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm
  • Musgrave Research Farm
Yellow corn in poorer drained portions of fields resulting from the recent excess rainfall.

Report

This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY Forage Systems Specialist Joe Lawrence was shared in the July 2023 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of over 8,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. Corn silage is...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Researcher Heather Grab holds an excluder next to a commercial bumblebee nest box

News

A Cornell study that revealed commercial eastern common bumblebee hives pose a threat to their wild counterparts has led one major pollination company to quickly adapt the bumblebee hive boxes they ship to growers.

  • Department of Entomology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Pollinators
Two young adults in a garden - on pushing a wheel barrow and the other walking alongside him.

News

Just north of some of the most challenged neighborhoods in Rochester, a small farm is flourishing – and providing more than just food.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Development
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology with a pond in front of the building

News

The Lab of Ornithology’s visitor center will close for 10 months beginning Aug. 1 for a multimillion-dollar redesign that will add new hands-on exhibits and visitor offerings.

  • Lab of Ornithology
Students and professor hold a trophy

Field Note

Adjusting to Cornell and life as an undergraduate student can be incredibly challenging. To make this transition easier for future students, we invited Aerin Mann ‘25 to reflect on her first two years in the Global Development major. Aerin...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Men sitting around a campfire playing a game

News

In a new book, landscape architect Martin Hogue investigates the history and evolution of recreational camping through the lens of its most important and familiar components.

  • Landscape Architecture
  • Nature
  • Landscape
4-H chaperone Juan Carlos Espinal takes part in the waiter and waitress race in Statler Hotel holding a tray with cups on it and weaving around tables.

News

The annual 4-H Career Explorations Conference – where 4-H members attend courses designed by various Cornell units and experience living on a college campus – welcomed nearly 250 young people from across New York state to Cornell June 27-29.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Nature
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow Nodira Kurbanbaeva (left) of Uzbekistan shakes hands with Ed Mabaya in a classroom.

News

The Humphrey PACT Program promotes research collaboration between undergraduates and Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows, midcareer professionals specialized in agriculture, rural development and natural resource management, who spend one year at Cornell...

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Energy
Landscape view of a hayfield

Report

This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY's Joe Lawrence, Forage Systems, and Kirsten Workman, Nutrient Management, was shared in the June 2023 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of over 8,000 dairy producers, agriservice...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Desert

Field Note

The Humphrey PACT (Practitioner - Assistant - Collaborative - Training) Program pairs undergraduate students in Global Development with Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows to work on a research endeavor in the fields of agriculture, rural development...
  • Global Development Section
  • Environment
  • Global Development
Pile of food scrap garbage

Field Note

The Humphrey PACT (Practitioner - Assistant - Collaborative - Training) Program pairs undergraduate students in Global Development with Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows to work on a research endeavor in the fields of agriculture, rural development...
  • Global Development Section
  • Food
  • Global Development
people in front of a spotted lanternfly image having a conversation

News

Attended by more than a dozen state and local elected officials and New York Farm Bureau members, Calixto's presentation featured an overview of the 13 research projects being conducted by NYSIPM and Cornell University faculty and staff to...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
 Andy Shin sitting outside of a building with the American flag flying behind him

News

Andy Shin ’23, M.P.A. ’25, gained citizenship in November after 12 years in the U.S.; he'll celebrate his first Independence Day as a citizen with fellow student veterans.

  • Global Development Section
  • Environment