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2024 Interdisciplinary Studies Major Graduation

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Celebrating the CALS class of 2025
Join us in recognizing the CALS class of 2025.
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Agriculture
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Field Note

Hailing from Massachusetts, Karolyn Auer is a Cornell CALS senior studying animal science who is about to graduate this May. She conducted substantial research on dairy sustainability during her time at Cornell University. We sat down with Auer...
  • Animal Science
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate Change
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Field Note

by Caroline Stamm '24 Rising global demand for milk places greater pressure on dairy farmers and the land, water and feed they depend on. Feed production and cow digestion significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, but optimizing cow...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Biology
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Provost Kavita Bala and professors Anurag Agrawal and Dr. M. Virginia Pascual have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on April 23.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biodiversity
  • Environment
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Spotlight

Academic focus: Trait evolution, genomics and phylogenetics Research summary: I study why and how phenotypic traits evolve in insects. I focus on traits that often differ between the sexes, such as color patterns, and try to understand how...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Genomics
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Seminar

Enrichment culture from a Boreal Shield lake sheds new light on the evolution of phototrophy Josh Neufeld Professor & University Research Chair Department of Biology University of Waterloo
  • Microbiology
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Seminar

Thiamine Deficiency from a One Health Perspective Katie Edwards Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Binghamton University
  • Microbiology