Cornell seal
Back

Discover CALS

See how our current work and research is bringing new thinking and new solutions to some of today's biggest challenges.

Search for News & Stories

Jake Edwards gives introductory remarks during the canoe dedication ceremony at Cass Park.

News

Students donate handmade canoe to Haudenosaunee youth

On May 7, Cornell students presented a handmade canoe to Hickory Edwards, Onondaga Nation Turtle Clan member and founder of the Haudenosaunee Canoe Journey, a program that guides Indigenous youth through ancestral waterways in upstate New York.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Environment
  • Development
Dave Walczak, operations manager of Eden Valley Growers co-op in Eden, New York, checks on Brussels sprouts growing on 2,000 acres of co-op members’ farmland.

News

Upstate 2.0 wins $1M NSF award to transform economy

A $1M award will support Upstate 2.0, which aims to grow the regional economy in upstate New York while helping to realize the state and nation’s goal of a net-zero carbon economy.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Agriculture

News

Norman Potter, ‘Food Science’ author, dies at 96

Norman Potter ’50, an award-winning teacher and mentor who wrote the foundational textbook “Food Science,” died March 6 in Lexington, Kentucky. A professor emeritus of food science, Potter was 96.

  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy
Four students stand outside holding bioaccoustics tools

Field Note

Undergrads in the field: ‘Our winter on the Big Island’

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
COMM UPDATES LOGO

News

COMM Updates - 5/10/2023
Conferences & Invited Lectures Associate Professor Jon Schuldt participated in “Experts on Camera,” a series of interviews with scientists hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which are made freely available to...
A group of people stand next to garbage bags filled with marine debris on Long Island Sound

News

NY Sea Grant awarded $5.2M to fight waterway pollution
More than $5.2 million in funding will support New York Sea Grant (NYSG) efforts to carry out community action and research activities to reduce plastic and other types of pollution in the state’s coastal and river waterways. A cooperative...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • New York Sea Grant Institute
  • Sea Grant NY
Group of high school students in a barn

News

NY high schoolers take the lead in fighting food insecurity at Cornell event
Each year, a group of innovative young researchers convene to discuss challenges and propose solutions to issues of food security and climate change. This group, however, is not made up of visiting professors or postdocs but rather the future...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

News

Two from Cornell named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars

Two Cornell faculty members have been named Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in recognition of their potential to become leaders in their research fields and to create diverse and inclusive lab environments.

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
portrait of Marion Zuefle

Spotlight

Zuefle to Join Incoming Class of LeadNY
A senior extension specialist, Zuefle, is the first NYSIPM employee to be selected to the prestigious LeadNY program, according to NYSIPM director Alejandro Calixto. “LeadNY has a proud tradition of developing leaders in the food, agriculture...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
Misha Inniss-Thompson ’16, assistant research professor of psychology, gave the keynote address at the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ annual Honors Award Ceremony on May 5 in the Statler Hotel.

News

Prioritize space to dream, OADI alumna tells diverse students

An enthusiastic audience of 100 Cornellians celebrated academic achievements and community at the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ annual Honors Award Ceremony on May 5.

  • Biology
Cows in a barn

News

$4.3M grant to develop farm of the future tech

Cutting-edge, data-driven agricultural technologies and precision management strategies designed for the farm of the future will be developed, evaluated and demonstrated, thanks to a four-year, $4.3 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant.

  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Animal Science
Manure spreader in field

News

New study finds way to reduce nitrogen loss from manure
A new laboratory study discovered that mixing acid whey with manure can decrease ammonia loss, increasing the amount of nitrogen available to plants from manure while reducing odor. Manure naturally loses ammonia through a reaction called...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
anaerobic digester diagram

News

PRO-DAIRY releases fact sheets on centralized anaerobic digestion systems
Considerations for central systems of dairy manure anaerobic digestion to renewable natural gas Newly released fact sheets by Angela George, Jason Oliver, and Lauren Ray, PRO-DAIRY Dairy Environmental Systems, gives an overview of three...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Aerial view of Cornell campus

News

Cornellians named Schwarzman, Goldwater and Udall scholars

Three students and a recent graduate have won national scholarships that will prepare them for future global leadership and careers in STEM and public service. A fifth student received an honorable mention.

  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
Rohini Gupta, doctoral student in civil and environmental engineering and Grateful Dead fan, stands in Barton Hall.

News

Love for Dead & Co. transcends generations

Current students share their love for the Grateful Dead and their excitement for Dead & Company's return to Barton Hall on May 8.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Global Development Section

News

AI-CLIMATE institute aims to curb emissions, boost economy

Cornell is one of six universities receiving a total of $20 million over five years to form an institute aiming to create more climate-smart practices that will curb greenhouse gas emissions while boosting the agriculture and forestry industries...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Department of Communication
Close up image of solar panels.

News

Lack of local benefits fuels upstate opposition to solar farms

While upstate New Yorkers are evenly split on utility-scale solar farms, naysayers object partly due to a perception that rural residents unfairly bear the burden of meeting downstate urban energy demands without compensation, a survey has found...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Agriculture
  • Behavior

News

Four from Cornell elected to National Academy of Sciences

Johannes Lehmann, Colin Parrish, Bik-Kwoon Tye and Michelle Wang are Cornell’s 2023 electees to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the academy announced May 2 at the close of its 160th annual meeting.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Bejo USA president Mark Overduin, left, and professor Thomas Björkman.

News

Eastern Broccoli Project partnership leads to promising variety

The Cornell-led Eastern Broccoli Project, which built a broccoli industry on the East Coast worth an estimated $120 million over the last 13 years, has produced a promising new broccoli variety in partnership with Bejo Seeds, a Geneva, New York...

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
cattle standing in field

News

Innovations to reduce methane emissions from food production
A new report funded by the Global Methane Hub and ClimateWorks Foundation details innovations in three key sectors of the global food system – livestock (including diet shifts), food loss and waste, and rice cultivation – that can eliminate over...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Environment