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Students look into a microscope.

Spotlight

This is the third in a series of stories detailing actions CALS students, faculty and staff have taken over the past year to make our community a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place for everyone. Because Cornell AgriTech is an...
  • Cornell AgriTech
Two alumni growing cannabis.

News

Cameron Wesley Scott, M.M.H. ’21, and Jeremiah Swain, M.M.H. ’20, hope to create one of upstate New York’s first boutique cannabis hotels and make social change at the same time.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
Windmills over the ocean.

News

A new Cornell study could help inform the development of offshore wind farms by providing detailed models characterizing the frequency, intensity and height of low-level jet streams over the Atlantic coast.
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Climate Change
Food scientist uses superheated steam to make dry food safer.

News

In the arid world of processing flour and food powders, where using water to sanitize is impossible, Cornell researchers are studying dry, superheated steam.
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
ILCI west africa

News

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Composite infrared images of a blue-throated mountain-gem hummingbird

News

Scientists have found that hummingbirds have more than one level of torpor, the energy-saving state they enter at night.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Behavior

News

As the associate dean for land-grant affairs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Julie Suarez is recognized across the state as an advocate for New York agriculture and a trusted partner in furthering the outreach conducted by...

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Ivy on Bradfield Hall

News

Cornell's Office of Academic Integration has announced 15 new multi-investigator seed grants, including support for a project on climate change, pollen and asthma attacks and another to develop a microbial delivery system for a unique treatment of colorectal cancer.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Nature
A green jay perched on a branch.

News

The 25th annual Great Backyard Bird Count is scheduled for Feb. 18-21. All are invited to join the count so that as many birds as possible can become part of a massive database used by scientists to track changes in bird populations over time.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Biodiversity

News

Michael Walter, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, who was known for his affability and inclusivity, died Nov. 5 in Lansing, New York.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
Aerial view of Cornell campus

News

The Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellowship aims to increase the number of students from historically underrepresented backgrounds engaging in research in inclusive and sustainable agricultural development and related fields. This includes, but is not...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
Mikala working with a bail

Field Note

Mikala Anderson ’23 is majoring in agricultural sciences with a concentration in education and society at CALS. For the past two summers, she has participated in a summer internship at the Delaware County office of Cornell Cooperative Extension, first as a Cornell Cooperative Extension summer intern and last summer as part of the Dairy Sustainability Key Performance Indicator Project overseen by Quirine Ketterings, professor of nutrient management and director of the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) in the Department of Animal Science. Here, Anderson shares her love of agriculture, and how her time in CALS has shifted her career plans and her perspectives.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science
Men observing cows in a field

Field Note

By Fay Benson, CCE South Central NY Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team In my work, first as a grazing dairy farmer and now as a Cornell University Cooperative Extension educator working with graziers across New York State, I have been aware...
  • Organic
  • Dairy
  • Soil
Longspine squirrelfish

News

A new study from Cornell University finds that fish are far more likely to communicate with sound than previously thought — and some fish have been doing this for at least 155 million years.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
a vet student working in a lab

News

The New York State Wildlife Health Program mobilizes experts when disease strikes wild animals and prevents outbreaks by translating data into policy.
  • Department of Communication
  • Animals
  • Environment
The statue of Ezra Cornell on the Arts Quad is seen covered in snow following a winter storm

News

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
McGraw Tower through an arch

News

Bruce Lewenstein, professor of science communication in both the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed Cornell’s 13th university ombudsman.
  • Department of Communication
Prabhu Pingali headshot

News

Prabhu Pingali, director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI), was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Wednesday, January 26. Pingali was honored “for distinguished...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
Cayuga Lake in the summer

News

The Tompkins County Historical Commission will release a short book written by Cornell Professor Kurt Jordan with the help of Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ community members, titled “The Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ People in the Cayuga Lake Region: A Brief History.”
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Land
Bekah and cow

Field Note

Cornell Animal Science Dairy Youth Extension and New York State 4-H provide youth programs for those interested in livestock, pet species, animal biology and production systems. These programs are catalysts for personal growth and development, encouraging leadership, cooperation, and marketable skills for the future. Bekah Martz '25 has been part of 4-H since she was 12 years old and participated in dairy youth extension throughout high school. We sat down with Martz to learn how these experiences led her to study at Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science.
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science