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SIPS Degrees & Programs

Gain critical skills to advance your knowledge and address local and global challenges.

Degree programs

The School of Integrative Plant Science is the largest academic unit in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Faculty and staff in the school's five sections support two undergraduate majors, 12 MPS concentrations and five graduate fields.

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Continuing education

Our school is committed to lifelong learning, offering a wide range of programming and skill building for children and adults alike. See featured education programs to take advantage of these opportunities, including online courses and seminar, garden tours and more.

News from the School of Integrative Plant Science

Learn about the many ways we are addressing some of the world's most urgent challenges.

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News

New grant fuels better nutrient management in vineyards
The researchers – Terry Bates, senior research associate at the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory, and Justine Vanden Heuvel, professor of horticulture – are both from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Like most...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
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USDA team honored with gene stewardship award from Cornell's BGRI
A research team from the United States earned the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) 2020 Gene Stewardship award for their pioneering work protecting global wheat crops from vulnerabilities to fungal pathogens that threaten global food...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Grant will help researchers prevent apple fire blight in U.S.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $779,000 grant to Cornell AgriTech researchers to combat fire blight, one of the most devastating bacterial diseases for the apple and pear industries...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Food

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Four CALS postdocs honored with achievement awards

The recipients are: Andy Borum (mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences) and Yoon Choi ( communication, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) for Excellence in Community Engagement; Rachel Cheng ( food science, CALS) and Sara Sachs...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Food Science

Land Acknowledgment

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ leadership. Learn more from the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program website.