Students in a new service learning course study the public health impacts of such hot-button local issues as the county jail expansion and whether Ithaca homeowners should be allowed to have backyard chicken coops.
Helene Dillard, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, will become dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at her graduate alma mater, the University of California, Davis, Jan. 27.
Marla Coppolino, a staff member of the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization, also is a snail wrangler, biological illustrator, Nigerian dwarf goat breeder, snail educator and entrepreneur, and a researcher.
A white pine-decimating fungus has mutated, allowing it to infect immune and resistant plants, which is alarming researchers, growers, loggers and forest managers.
Forty Cornellians helped plant trees and remove debris Nov. 9 in Breezy Point, Queens, N.Y., where residents are still recovering from the impacts of last year’s Hurricane Sandy.
