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The lastest SIPS news from the CALS Newsroom

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Field Note

Sour Rot in Grapes: alternative management strategies update
Sour rot is a potentially devastating, late-season bunch rot of particular concern on tight clustered grapevine varieties in warm, wet years. This causes the disease to have sporadic effects on grape harvests, with some years showing only small...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Viticulture and Enology
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From the Living Lab: Small biodigester to fuel research, extension

One of the newest additions to Cornell’s Living Lab, the anaerobic digester will generate electricity and provide a real-world testbed for researchers across campus.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Agriculture
Graduate student Julia Sebastien (left) is pictured with Cornell Professor JoAnn Difede and Cornell Associate Professor Malte Jung at the “Human Psychology, Purpose and Social Life in the Age of AI and Ubiquitous Computing.”

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COMM Updates - 5/6/2026
May 6, 2026 Check out our final COMM Updates for the 2025–2026 academic year—and what a year it’s been! We’ll be back at the beginning of the fall 2026 semester. Awards Graduate student Margaret (Maggie) Foster received the Christine Ye...
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Field Note

From veterinarians to dairy farmers: This core class is relevant to all
by Angelina Tang ’28 Students dressed in panda onesies to present a research proposal on the genetic quality of giant panda semen isn’t something you see in every class. But it’s a fun sight to behold in ANSC 2210: Principles of Animal Genetics...
  • Animal Science
  • Genetics
An imitation spotted lantern fly perched on a prototype designed to protect vineyards from the harmful invasive species.

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Engineering design course takes aim at spotted lanternflies

Nearly 200 Cornell Duffield Engineering students exhibited handheld scrapers for insect egg masses, automated vineyard net-lifting systems, and even early-stage mechanical sorters designed to separate invasive spotted lanternflies from harvested...

  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management

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