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The CALS Alumni Association and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences honor alumni who have achieved recognized success in their businesses, professions, or other avocational endeavors; have been actively involved in, worked for, and...

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Stephen B. Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, served on Cornell’s board of trustees for 16 years and as a co-chair of the Far Above capital campaign for ten years, and this is his 45th consecutive year serving on the...

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Mary Maxon Grainger ’79, MPS ’87, and Bradley Grainger ’79 started serving Cornell as undergraduates, and they have never stopped. The CALS grads and longtime Ithacans are two of the six 2016 recipients of the...

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Inside every plant leaf, emerald chloroplasts harness water, light and carbon dioxide and create energy, a fundamental reaction that both is life and gives life. One of its powerhouse enzymes is the target of...

• School of Integrative Plant Science

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 New positions funded as part of the college’s Faculty Renewal Initiative will bring additional expertise in fisheries and fermentations to CALS. The Dwight A. Webster Faculty Fellowship in Fisheries and Aquatic...

• Natural Resources and the Environment Section
• Food Science

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Orange is the new hot color when it comes to nutrition and human health. And thanks to agricultural economist Jan Low, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’94, and her efforts introducing the orange-fleshed sweet potato into...

• Global Development Section
• Global Development

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Do you believe that things happen in life for a reason? I do. It seems that my journey from Cornell to a career in the pharmaceutical industry was meant to be. In 1989, I entered Cornell as a freshman in the...

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 It started as a simple idea: Cornell students learning about farming should have someplace to actually farm. Thus was born Dilmun Hill. In the 20 years since students tilled those first three acres, the farm...

By Ellen Leventry periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Toby Ault, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, caused a big splash in 2015 when he and co-authors from Columbia University and NASA published a paper showing that, because...

• Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Cornell University has begun “a new era of business education” with the launch of the College of Business on July 1, Dean Soumitra Dutta said. The College of Business, comprising Cornell’s three accredited...

• Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Daniel Abaraoha ‘18 Applied Economics & Management If you pass Daniel Abaraoha on the Ag Quad and he’s looking down, he’s not downcast—he’s likely studying your footwear. Abaraoha is a shoe-in for most...

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 “With CRISPR, literally overnight what had been the biggest frustration of my career turned into an undergraduate side project. It was incredible.” Robert Reed, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary...