Professor helps organize county food task force

A Cornell faculty member is part of a core team that has organized the Tompkins County COVID-19 Food Task Force, a nerve center working to ensure that those in need have access to food and that food producers stay in operation during the crisis.

Cornell AgriTech center helps business adapt to COVID-19

Cornell AgriTech’s Center for Excellence for Food and Agriculture has been helping food and ag businesses adapt to the COVID-19 economy with new marketing strategies and by diversifying products.

Researchers to explore perennial grains with $1.77M grant

A Cornell researcher is part of a multi-institution team helping upstate New York organic farmers grow and increase profitability of perennial grain crops, which can be planted once and will yield grain for multiple years.

Psyllid peptides could fight citrus greening disease

Peptides found in the Asian citrus psyllid, which feeds on the leaves of citrus trees and spreads a bacteria that causes citrus greening disease, could lead to development of a new pesticide.

New genomic tools help improve staple crops worldwide

The Genomic and Open-source Breeding Informatics Initiative, operating under an $18.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is working to develop new plant-breeding tools and genomic databases.

Four students to receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards

Four Cornell seniors have been selected to receive the 2020 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.

Applications open for second Grow-NY competition

Applications are now open for Year 2 of Grow-NY, the food and agriculture business competition administered by Cornell's Center for Regional Economic Advancement and funded by Empire State Development.

Cornell Atkinson calls for COVID-19 rapid-response proposals

Cornell Atkinson is calling for proposals for faculty research related to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The center’s Rapid Response Fund will award seed grants of up to $10,000 for projects.

Snail mail to Wi-Fi: Cornell’s history of remote instruction

The university beginning online classes for the remainder of the semester continues a long history of remote instruction. Liberty Hyde Bailey and Martha Van Rensselaer designed Cornell’s first correspondence courses in 1896 and 1900, respectively.