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Do ladybugs help your garden grow? Depends on surroundings
When cabbage looper moth larvae infest a field, sustainable growers will often try to control the pests by releasing large numbers of predators, such as ladybugs. That way they can avoid spraying expensive and environmentally harmful...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • Plants
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Nice catch: Cornell scientists net 139-pound Oneida Lake sturgeon
In May and June during an annual lakewide survey, the researchers capture sturgeon for a census of living creatures living in the lake. This sturgeon, caught June 19, measured 72.5 inches and was estimated to be 20 years old. Lake sturgeon once...
  • Current Undergraduate Student
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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CALS signs new admissions agreement with Binghamton University
This is a 3 + 4 program that will allow qualified Cornell students to complete their Bachelor of Science Degree in Plant Sciences through coursework taken in their first professional year at Binghamton. “We’re thrilled to have developed this...
  • Current Undergraduate Student
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Specht named new dean for diversity and inclusion at College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
As a member of the CALS senior leadership team and the college’s key diversity officer, Specht will lead college-wide diversity initiatives. These efforts include recruiting and hiring diverse faculty, supporting scholarship, and developing...
  • Faculty
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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CALS faculty among recipients of White House early career awards
The White House has recognized four Cornell faculty members – Thomas Hartman, Jenny Kao-Kniffin, Kin Fai Mak and Rebecca Slayton – with prestigious 2019 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The awards were...
  • Horticulture Section
  • Soil
  • Ecosystems

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Designer plants one step closer to growing low-cost medical, industrial proteins

Imagine if plants could be engineered to produce vaccines, pharmaceuticals, proteins and enzymes for medical, agricultural and industrial applications at a fraction of their current cost. A new Cornell-led study describes a major advancement in...

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Medicine
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Designer plants one step closer to growing low-cost medical, industrial proteins
The market for such biologically derived proteins is forecast to reach $300 billion in the near future. Industrial enzymes and other proteins are currently made in large, expensive fermenting reactors, but making them in plants grown outdoors...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Medicine

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Farmworker initiatives earn community engagement honor

Given by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), the award recognizes extraordinary community outreach initiatives by its member universities. Cornell was recognized for its interdisciplinary farmworker research and...

  • Agriculture

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Farmworker initiatives earn community engagement honor

Cornell was recognized for its interdisciplinary farmworker research and collaboration initiatives, which collectively benefit thousands of farmworkers in 40 counties across New York state and beyond. The work began with the Cornell Farmworker...

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
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Field Note

Dyson alumnus brings lively new energy to Finger Lakes goat dairy
Dave Messmer ’17 has been learning a thing or two about dairy farming since he was six years old. Now, almost 25 years later, he is putting that knowledge to work at a new level as co-owner of Lively Run Goat Dairy in Interlaken, New York. In...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Plant breeding project gives East African farmers better leafy green option
Phillip Griffiths of Cornell AgriTech has a special connection in East Africa that’s improving the humble collard green to help smallholder farmers—and their communities—live and eat better.
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Cornell program celebrates 50 years of nutrition education
Nutrition educators from across New York state joined Cooperative Extension staff and university faculty June 17-18 for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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USDA awards $1.8M to Cornell for packaging, beverage concentrate research
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded $1.8 million to two Cornell food science research projects.
  • Food
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CALS, eCornell, specialty food group team up for training
To keep up with a growing demand for specialty foods, a new online certificate training program for buyers has been developed by eCornell, CALS and the Specialty Food Association.

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Dairy food science program promotes safety, quality

The Cornell Dairy Foods Extension certificate program run by the Department of Food Science in CALS helps industry people learn the ins and outs of product safety and quality.

  • Food
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Cornell AgriTech’s graduate students foster local interest in agricultural science
SAGES, an organization of postdoctoral associates and graduate students at Cornell AgriTech, is celebrating its 10th year of offering scholarships to area high school students.
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Summer Scoop is hard to top – unless it’s with sprinkles
Summertime means sunshine, warmth and outdoor fun. And for the staff, faculty and students of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, it means free ice cream at Summer Scoop.
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Four on faculty receive Carpenter Advising Awards
Four faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising.
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Partnership aims to improve food security in Latin America
Cornell University and the Core Foundation have signed a five-year Memorandum of Agreement to explore new ways to promote food security and agricultural innovation in Latin America.
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Program expands to help Latin American growers
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Produce Safety Alliance has recently expanded its efforts in order to help Latin American growers adhere to U.S. federal safety regulations.