Robin Bellinder, professor of plant science and a national and international leader in weed management, died Nov. 13 in Ithaca, New York, at age 70.
She joined the Cornell University Horticulture Department in 1984 as assistant professor, with a program focused on weed management for vegetable crops. She was appointed professor in 1997.
Bellinder led the effort at Cornell to provide fresh vegetables from plots at the Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm to the Food Bank of the Southern Tier. Since 2004, Cornell has donated more than 1 million pounds of produce from the Thompson farm.
Bellinder was a “tireless fighter” for New York vegetable growers, always looking for new tools to manage weeds, according to Steve Reiners, chair of the Horticulture Section of Cornell’s School of Integrative Plant Science. She was past president of the Northeastern Weed Science Society and in 2005 was named the recipient of Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Applied Research.
Read more about Professor Belinder’s life and career at the Cornell Chronicle: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/11/robin-bellinder-leader-weed-management-dies
