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Food News

Hannah Rudt in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.

News

For her work in developing and teaching nutrition and food justice curricula to adolescents in New York City, Hannah Rudt ’23 has won the 2023 National Student Employee of the Year award – the first Cornellian to ever receive this honor.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition

News

Applications are open for a new online entrepreneurship class for innovators with ideas for value-added dairy products, and finalists have been announced for a first-ever dairy products competition.

  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
  • Dairy
Andrew Scheldorf

News

Andrew Scheldorf is challenging long-held beliefs about wild apples—and advocating for a more inclusive scientific community.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

News

Norman Potter ’50, an award-winning teacher and mentor who wrote the foundational textbook “Food Science,” died March 6 in Lexington, Kentucky. A professor emeritus of food science, Potter was 96.

  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy
food processing

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Events

Student pets goat at Art of Agriculture

Exhibit

Art of Agriculture
Join Sigma Alpha, professional agricultural sorority, on the Arts Quad to learn more about agriculture! Experience student groups, research labs, and agricultural outreach organizations representing a wide array of opportunities and careers in...
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy
  • Animals
A tractor digging a trench for tile drainage (photo credit to Cayuga Co Soil and Water Conservation District)

Workshop

Tile drainage - why do farmers utilize this practice and what benefits does it provide? Researchers will share information related to tile drainage on farms in the Northeast as well as help give context to the larger topic of water, soil and...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • CCE
  • Dairy
dairy manure storage

Workshop

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To pull or not to pull? That is (one of) the questions dairy farm personnel have while working in the maternity area on a farm. This workshop will teach best calving management practices to minimize stillbirth rates and improve calf and cow...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • CCE
  • Dairy