College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Higher education in the UK faces challenges post-Brexit

Higher education in the U.K. is undergoing significant change since Brexit, David Llewellyn, vice chancellor of Harper Adams University Oct. 18.

Chris Barrett talks food aid to D.C. policymakers

Congress can change U.S. international food-aid programs to save lives without increasing taxpayer costs, Chris Barrett testified before a Senate committee on Oct. 19.

Cornell Botanic Gardens receives grant to conserve, research hemlock

Cornell Botanic Gardens has received a grant from New York State to continue and expand its work to conserve hemlock trees.

Six faculty honored with Weiss teaching awards

President Martha E. Pollack announced the recipients of Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships, Weiss Provost Awards and Weiss Junior Fellows Award Oct. 20.

Faculty Profiles

Faculty spotlights: Garrett van Ryzin: Radical thinking to get us from point A to B; Helen Chun: Creating a better consumer experience; Chris Forman: Assessing the impact of information technology; and Elisha Cohn: A humanistic point of view.

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Cornell’s recipe for public engagement

Last spring, food science major Maddie Parish ’17 and other members of her team in the capstone course Food Science 4000 helped a food producer solve a critical production challenge: Microbial spoilage was occurring soon after packaging of the ready-to-eat sesame product.

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3-D printed artificial gut creates realistic model for research

The lack of an artificial intestine that mimics conditions in real guts has limited research, until now. 

Extension summer interns recount helping New York businesses, communities

Twenty-six students shared their experiences of working with Cornell Cooperative Extension this summer.

Satellite data paints a portrait of global plant health

A Cornell researcher is using a NASA satellite to measure photosynthesis in high-resolution at the global scale.