During a Sept. 3 campus visit, Sen. Charles Schumer pledged to put his political muscle behind getting Cornell official federal recognition as a national center of excellence in dairy and food safety. The designation would be the first of its kind supporting the dairy industry.
A three-year study by Cornell researchers suggests that growth in local farm aggregation and distribution businesses may provide economic benefits to local communities, but that some other businesses may suffer.
Cornell veterinary student Emily Aston ’15 went into the heart of the Amazon to conduct the most remote study to date of the foodborne and waterborne pathogen Toxoplasma gondii.
Cornell researchers have tested their method to restore agricultural land in China by adding components into the soil and collecting water to make the most of meager rainfall supplies.
University delegates returned a rare collection of fungi to China Nov. 7, 70 years after it was smuggled out of the country and brought to Cornell for safekeeping. (Nov. 12, 2009)
With proper management practices, farmers could grow crops while maintaining ecosystem services, said Cornell professor Alison Power during her AAAS presentation in Chicago. (Feb. 17, 2009)
The impacts of climate change on corn yields in the United States and China in coming decades may not be all bad, according to a new Cornell and University of Tokyo study. (Feb. 23, 2011)
Michael Mazourek, Ph.D. '08, a professor of plant breeding, has won recognition from the Organic Seed Alliance for his work connecting farmers with research. (Oct. 1, 2012)
W. Keith Kennedy, provost emeritus, professor emeritus at Cornell and former dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, died Feb. 18 at age 92. (Feb. 21, 2011)