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Professional development in Animal Science: '26 Research Poster Session
Each year, undergraduates from a wide variety of academic and professional backgrounds come together to share their research and summer internship experiences with colleagues, peers, farmers and more. Read on to learn about their summer...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
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Report

This fact sheet was authored by Joe Lawrence, PRO-DAIRY forage systems specialist, Kirsten Workman, PRO-DAIRY nutrient management specialist, and Mike Hunter, IPM coordinator, and was shared in the July 2026 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
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For many students, internships offer valuable workplace experience. For Madison McCall, a 2022 Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY internship became the first step toward entering an agricultural engineering career. McCall, now a graduate of Clarkson...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
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Field Note

Xingtan (Vera) Yu PhD’27 is a doctoral student working in the lab of Jingyue (Ellie) Duan , assistant professor of functional genomics. Vera’s research focuses on the effects of heat stress on the mammary gland of the dairy cow. We spoke to her...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Genomics
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Field Note

What sparked your interest in agriculture? In high school, we did an environmental science program and there was a section on agriculture. As a part of this, we all had to participate in the World Food Prize, where we picked a country...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops