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.

Log your attendance

Please use this form to record your attendance at SIPS seminars.

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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SIPS-wide listservs

  • AG-SIPS-DG: SIPS wide list auto-generated from Workday. Includes everyone in Workday under the SIPS org. The SIPS Monday News & Events is emailed to this list and to plant-seminar-l
  • plant-seminar-l: an opt-in that includes people wishing to receive the SIPS Monday News & Events email who may not be included on the AG-SIPS-DG list. Contact Magdalen Lindeberg (ml16 [at] cornell.edu (ML16[at]cornell[dot]edu)) to be added
  • plant-postdocs-l: an opt-in list to which all SIPS postdocs are added
  • SIPS-GRADS-l: an opt-in list to which all SIPS grad students are added
  • 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...

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News

Communicating with cotton: CROPPS research in Arizona
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
  • Communication
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Experiential learning, STEM curriculum prepare Ag Sci majors for success
First-year Agricultural Sciences majors capped off their first semester at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at last month’s annual alumni gathering. The gathering helps build community among Agricultural Sciences alumni...
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Cornell helps NYS growers hone the art and science of poinsettias

From root rot and powdery mildew to white flies and Lewis mites, the threats to poinsettias abound - NYS growers persevere with the support and expertise of Cornell faculty and staff.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
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“Gender, Power and Politics in Ag” book pushes for progress, not buzzwords
A new book co-edited by a Cornell faculty and student highlights the distortion of gender research in agricultural development and calls for transformative changes to the power dynamics and political systems that harm women and worsen hunger in...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
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Aldwinckle, Wiesner elected to National Academy of Inventors
Aldwinckle, a professor emeritus of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and professor...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section