Seminars & News

The five SIPS sections host regular seminars, attendance of which can be logged online for credit. 

SIPS Seminars

View full seminar schedule for all five SIPS sections.

SIPS members receive a weekly email listing SIPS section seminars for the current week, SIPS section seminars for the week following, and other upcoming seminars and events of relevant to plants, soil, climate, and agriculture. Email ml16 [at] cornell.edu (ML16[at]cornell[dot]edu) to be added to the mailing list.

Recordings of many past seminars can be viewed at the SIPS seminar playlist.

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The latest SIPS news

SIPS News Blog: Discovery that Connects

Catch up on the latest SIPS news, including publications, DEI efforts, awards, renovation news and more.

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  • AG-SIPS-Faculty-DG: contains all SIPS faculty
  • AG-SIPS-Faculty-Plus-DG: contains all SIPS tenured/tenure-track faculty, senior research associates, senior extension associates, senior lecturers, and anyone else involved in teaching

The latest news...

Brown soil and green plants in a field

News

$1.6M supports land-grant research for NY farms, forests, communities

Fifty-four research projects addressing New York’s agriculture, environment and communities have collectively received $1.6 million from the USDA.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jamey Tielens, left, and Ben Brotman consult on a recent brewing day at Liquid State Brewing Company. Brotman says the state’s brewers organizations “keep brewers in touch with other breweries and build a sense of camaraderie.” Photo by Jason Koski.

News

As US craft beer industry goes flat, NYS bubbles with optimism

In 2023, craft beer production in the U.S. declined by 1%, which is the worst on record since the Brewers Association began tracking the industry in the late 1970s. New York fared better.

  • Cornell Craft Beverage Institute
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Researchers at the World Food Prize

News

World Food Prize panel highlights women’s access to agricultural technology

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Planet
Gracekelly Fulton '24, co-lead of the Sustainable Landscapes team, prepares to plant a wild plum tree outside Onondaga Nation School. Photo by Sreang Hok.

News

Medicinal garden at Onondaga Nation School grows opportunity

The garden - a collaboration between Onondaga Nation and Cornell Botanic Gardens - will enable Onondaga Nation School to incorporate more lessons from and about their own culture.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
A worker dries coffee at Kasenda coffee estate in the Rwenzori region of Uganda.

News

Cornell, World Coffee Research launch Coffee Improvement Program

Cornell University and World Coffee Research, backed by funding from USAID, are rolling out a new program focused on improving the resilience and productivity of coffee smallholder growers worldwide.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section