Back

Discover CALS

See how our current work and research is bringing new thinking and new solutions to some of today's biggest challenges.

Search for News & Stories

With training from Cornell’s NY FarmNet program, Nicole Tommell is helping farmers navigate mental health challenges as a certified mental health first aid instructor.

News

In recent years CCE specialists have had to learn how to support farmers’ mental health, an occupation with one of the highest suicide rates.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition

News

Native speakers often dominate the discussion in multilingual online meetings, but adding an automated participant that periodically interrupts the conversation can help nonnative speakers get a word in edgewise, according to new research at...

  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
Ivy on Bradfield Hall

News

Twelve Cornell and Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members – six of whom are also Cornell alumni – have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
comm updates logo

News

Events Join us for the first COMMColloquium of 2023, this Friday, February 3, at 2:00 pm. Karen Levy will be presenting. Grants Lee Humphreys, Co-PI, “The Sound of Silence: Mapping Immigrants' Preferences and Use of Public Space through Social...
a fruit fly on a piece of fruit

News

A seminal fluid protein transferred from male to female fruit flies during mating changes the expression of genes related to the fly’s circadian clock, an innovative technique has revealed.

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Microbial biology

News

Arthur Allen Muka, M.S. ’52, Ph.D. ’54, whose work in applied economic entomology supported growers in New York and around the globe, died Dec. 7, 2022, in Ithaca.

  • Department of Entomology
  • Agriculture
  • Entomology
Forte Protein postdoctoral research Imran Kahn, left, and CEO Kathleen Hefferon conduct work in their new laboratory space at the Center for Life Science Ventures business incubator.

News

Forte Protein – a new Cornell startup that grows commercial animal proteins inside agricultural plants – has joined the university’s Center for Life Science Ventures business incubator.

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Animals
Natural gas

News

Cornell professor Robert Howarth advised New York state senators last week to downsize the state’s natural gas pipeline system and to repeal laws that easily connect gas to new homes.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Energy
  • Climate Change
three people talking on a farm

Field Note

Will Salamone ’22 was first exposed to agriculture mowing the lawn of a neighboring dairy farm. Years later, a Cornell class in Whole-Farm Nutrient Management (ANSC4120) and a joint summer internship between the Nutrient Management Spear Program...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
Globe with colored wheat spikes

News

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
butcher shop

News

New research proposes how to ensure adequate nutrition while minimizing chronic disease and environmental impact
  • Global Development Section
  • Environment
  • Food
An instructor in front of a class

Field Note

For the Any Person, Any Story concept, students developed digital media projects to expose how learning partnerships with CLASP have fostered an inclusive learning culture for students and employees alike.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
skid loader moves food waste

Report

This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY's Jason Oliver, Dairy Environmental Systems, and Kirsten Workman, Nutrient Management, was shared in the January 2023 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
landscape of fields

News

National dietary guidelines are a powerful tool to influence human and environmental health, yet less than half of such guidelines incorporate sustainability, according to a study in Lancet Planetary Health.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Food
Martha Mutschler-Chu checks tomato plants in a greenhouse

News

A Cornell researcher has completed a decades-long program to develop new varieties of tomato that naturally resist pests and limit transfer of viral disease by insects.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
students smile for photo in vet school

Field Note

The Minorities in Animal Science Students Club (MASS) provides a safe space for underrepresented Animal Science students through meetings, events and networking opportunities. The club recently collaborated with the Cornell College of Veterinary...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
cattle grazing

News

A new study shows that it’s possible for the beef industry to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions without increasing costs and still meet global demand for meat. But the strategies to achieve this outcome are largely dependent on what cows consume, where beef is produced, how land is managed, and ways neighboring nations work together — with major implications for borderless agricultural policies that best protect the environment.
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
Nikoloz Lomsadze in a field of mixed barley and wheat

News

Maslins, or mixtures of grains planted and eaten together, have fed humans for millennia. Now nearly forgotten, they can adapt in real time to unpredictable weather and extreme weather.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
a broccoli plant

News

A new study identifies the genetic underpinnings for why broccoli heads become abnormal when it’s hot, providing insight into effects of climate-induced warming for all crops and pointing the way for breeding heat-resistant new varieties.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Agriculture
Wind turbines in a field

News

Four Cornell Cooperative Extension county offices are leading statewide efforts to establish a network of Regional Clean Energy Hubs as part of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $52 million initiative to connect local communities with clean energy resources.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Energy
  • Natural Resources