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Stephanie Schrauth (left) and Linda Alvarez (right) holding pouches.

Field Note

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
Thomas Urban, research scientist in the College of Arts and Sciences, uses ground-penetrating radar to search for communal graves at Pilgrim Hot Springs in Alaska, in collaboration with employees of the National Park Service and Kawerak, Inc.

News

A Cornell research scientist used ground-penetrating radar and AI modeling to locate the communal graves of approximately 93 victims of the Spanish influenza at Pilgrim Hot Springs in Alaska.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
Professor and students tour a rainforest

News

A new style of engaged courses in Global Development will allow students to apply classroom-based lessons in real-world development contexts. Launching in the fall semester, Global Development will offer two immersive faculty-led study trips...
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
The new white wine grape, Aravelle.

News

Introducing Aravelle – a new white wine grape that was 42 years in the making.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
A school of fish underwater

News

Fish can adjust their sensitivity to the actions of others – such as fleeing due to a false alarm – in order to reduce the risk of responding to misinformation, according to a new study.

  • Computational Biology
  • Behavior
  • Biology
a flight of beer at local Ithaca brewery, Liquid State

News

While creating quality craft beers, serving up a pleasant tasting-room experience with friendly, informed servers can bring more profit to a brewery, according to new Cornell research.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Craft Beverage Institute
Wheat graphic

News

The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announced the 2023 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career and Mentor awardees in recognition of excellence in science and leadership for a wheat-secure future.
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

News

In flood-prone New York, non-white homeowners are more likely to take active measures – like protecting a furnace or installing a sump pump – to prepare for deluge, says Cornell research.

  • Department of Global Development
  • Behavior
  • Climate Change
Yianni Diakomihalis ’23, left, and Vito Arujau ’24 both won national titles in their respective weight classes on March 18 at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.

News

A culture of caring and support launches Cornell wrestling to a third place finish at NCAAs, with two national champions and four All-Americans.

News

Wilmot “Bill” Irish, an agricultural engineer and professor emeritus, who specialized in farm structures and mechanization in the dairy and poultry industries, died Nov. 22, 2022, in Shelburne, Vermont. He was 94.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Agriculture
Alumni attend outdoor presentation in Puerto Rico

Field Note

Lead NY is for committed leaders in the food, agriculture and natural resource sectors who wish to step up and make a difference in their community. In this article, Renee Ciardi, (NYFB - LeadNY Class 18), reflects on a LeadNY alumni trip, where...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
Image of a closeup heat map

Spotlight

  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Genomics

News

Cornell researchers shined a new light – via thermal imaging of mice – on how male scent marking changes depending on shifting social conditions.

  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Animals
  • Behavior
Eric Branch examines a beet with fellow grad student, Pratibha Sharma

Field Note

Growing up on his family’s vegetable farm in central Minnesota, Eric Branch had many positive interactions with extension programs, and this eventually led him to pursue extension as a career. Drawn by Cornell AgriTech’s long history of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Lee lecturing at Erasmus University

News

Conferences & Invited Lectures Assistant Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., was invited to speak at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's workshop on Applying Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Research and Development to Future...
  • Department of Communication
 Under moderate levels of artificial light, predators have more opportunity to attack caterpillars.

News

Moderate levels of artificial light at night – like the fixture illuminating your backyard – bring more caterpillar predators and reduce the chance that these lepidoptera larvae grow up to become moths.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Entomology
Bald eagle

News

As they seek new foods because climate change has altered their traditional diet of salmon carcasses, bald eagles in northwestern Washington state have become a boon to dairy farmers, deterring pests and removing animal carcasses from their...

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals

News

The program seeks to nurture the careers of Cornell’s most promising faculty members in the social sciences by providing time and space for high-impact social scientific scholarship.

  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
Blue and yellow sticky cards with insects stuck on them clamped to a stake.

News

A soil-borne, early season pest of corn, soybean and other field crops, SCM is especially concerning to producers because there are no remediation options available once seed damage occurs. The pests, which reproduce quickl—up to four...
  • New York State Integrated Pest Management
  • Field Crops
photo of Germán Vargas wearing a beetle tshirt in front of a tree

News

As a part of the third largest wine producing state in the nation, New York grape growers work nearly 35,000 acres, producing 128,000 tons of juice grapes, 57,000 tons of wine grapes, and 2,000 tons of table grapes each year. In the new role...
  • New York State Integrated Pest Management