Following a multimillion-dollar makeover, the Barton Laboratory Greenhouse was dedicated Oct. 30 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York.
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research has joined other large plant institutions to form the Association of Independent Plant Research Institutes to coordinate research to benefit society. (Dec. 5, 2011)
A $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Cornell will train agricultural researchers from sub-Saharan Africa in the theory and practice of gender-responsive research.
At an event to celebrate Cesar Chavez, Mary Jo Dudley, director of the Cornell Farmworker Program, discussed the program with the U.S. secretaries of labor and agriculture at the White House March 30. (April 8, 2011)
With the state’s dairy industry tearing through an economic boom, Cornell hosted the second New York State Yogurt and Dairy Summit Oct. 15, featuring Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy, Agriculture and about 100 industry and government leaders.
A partnership between International Programs in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is training African students in advanced cassava breeding.