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.
