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Dean Boor stands with a group of students at the 2019 Cornell Homecoming

Field Note

Kathryn J. Boor is the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Serving as the college’s chief academic and administrative officer, she is responsible for developing and implementing the strategic direction of the...
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Spotlight

Research at Cornell MARTHA: When I was here for undergrad, we science majors were busy! Can you believe that I had a three-hour chemistry lab at 8 a.m. on Saturdays? My career trajectory was shaped by my work in Dr. Adrian Srb’s lab, studying...
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Plant Biology Section
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But scientists are increasingly understanding that bogs are also crucial ecosystems in the fight against climate change: in some cases, bogs can actually sequester more carbon than rain forests. Bogs are an ecologically unique aquatic system...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Organisms
  • Biodiversity
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And in the class Hands-On Horticulture for Gardeners, Professor Marvin Pritts has asked students to design their own experiments, such as determining whether music helps plants grow, or what the best method might be for propagating Pothos, an...
  • Horticulture
  • Microbiology
  • Communication
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  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Fifty years on, Earth Day is more relevant than ever as the impacts of climate change are felt across New York state and the rest of the country. The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Environment
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One of our researchers is helping organic farmers in upstate New York start growing perennial grain crops, which can be planted once and will yield grain for multiple years — supporting commercial products such as breads, cereals, beer and whiskey.
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Tidball, senior research associate in the Department of Natural Resources, in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, served as a consultant to members of the New York State Senate on the Outdoor Rx Act, a bill that seeks to make it easier...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Environment
  • Nature
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Alfredo Resendiz ’19, the first member of his family born in the United States and the first to go to college, developed a passion for agriculture through JDL. “These types of programs do have impact, especially within schools that have no...
  • Dairy Fellows Program
  • Animal Science
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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As events and businesses began to shutter last month in response to increasing concerns over the spread of COVID-19, so did Finger Lakes Harvest’s primary sales outlets. “We showcase our products at approximately 50 specialty shows and farmers...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Food
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Field Note

New York state’s early response to the COVID-19 crisis contained a daunting directive to its public schools: Shut down now. On March 16, the state ordered schools to switch immediately from classroom instruction to remote teaching delivered...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Plant lice, psyllids, feed on leaves during the day

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Because there is no cure, HLB is a major threat to the $10 billion citrus industry in Florida, where it was first detected in 2005, and to the $7 billion industry in California, where it appeared last year. Researchers from the Boyce Thompson...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Department of Entomology
  • Plants
Kathryn J. Boor

Spotlight

As a teenager, she honed her leadership skills as an active member of 4-H, part of Cornell Cooperative Extension. She first visited Cornell as a New York State 4-H Congress delegate, and her lifelong dedication to the College of Agriculture and...
  • CALS Global Fellows Program
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
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By using new tools to measure the levels of soil moisture in different climates, new Cornell research shows that even minor global warming could amplify drought hazards around the world.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Plants
Apples on a tree.

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Farms have many microbial risks, and in order to protect the fruits and vegetables grown and packaged on a farm, every grower needs to be able to identify and reduce those risks. Cornell’s new online Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training course complements an existing in-person course that, since 2016, has reached more than 56,000 individuals in all 50 U.S. states, territories and commonwealths and 32 other countries.
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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For decades, researchers have tried to understand how plants biosynthesize cardenolides, knowledge that could help them discover and develop safer versions of the drugs. Unfortunately, the cardenolides’ best-known plant sources – foxglove and...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
Francine Jasper

Field Note

Francine Jasper is an expert in the field of international education administration. She develops training programs with faculty and other professional resources for visiting scholars and has trained hundreds of professionals from nearly 90...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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A Cornell plant disease specialist is teaming up with land managers and conservationists to teach dogs how to sniff out invasive species — hoping to catch pathogens before it's too late.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Disease
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In a special climate change issue of the Review of Financial Studies, nine new research papers – including two from Cornell – have staked new territory for scholarly study: finance sustainability. “There are many finance questions that pertain...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Environment

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Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and founder of the Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab, recognized that it would be helpful for colleagues to get on the same page: By sharing...

  • Department of Communication
  • Communication