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Graduate students honor Cowen, Ndulo and Smart for excellence in mentoring
05.09.2012
For the first time in Cornell's history, graduate students have created an award to honor the people who have the greatest impact on their academic careers: faculty mentors.

5 of 'Best 300'
05.01.2012
Five Cornell professors have been named to “The Best 300 Professors.” The book takes data from RateMyProfessors.com, a website on which students rank professors on helpfulness, clarity, easiness and “hotness.”

Hudler named 2012-13 Menschel teaching fellow
04.12.2012
To expand on his teaching innovations, Cornell plant pathologist George Hudler has been named Cornell's Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow for 2012-13.

BREAD grant research to tackle plant viral diseases
02.15.2012
A team of international researchers is working to tackle the global problem of plant viral diseases that are spread by insects, thanks to close to $1 million in funding.

CALS plant pathologists put the squeeze on citrus disease
01.18.2012
Genetically engineered orange trees developed by college of Agriculture and Life Sciences' scientists to fight a deadly bacterial citrus disease in Florida will soon be put to the test.

Strep-resistant fire blight found in New York orchards
01.06.2012
Cornell plant pathologists are warning New York apple and pear growers after discovering that a strain of fire blight is resistant to traditional treatments.

Research: Worm compost can suppress plant disease
12.21.2011
Cornell researchers have found that vermicompost is not only an excellent fertilizer, but could also help prevent a pathogen that has been a scourge to greenhouse growers.

Researchers learn how pathogen causes speck disease
12.14.2011
Researchers report in Cell Host and Microbe how the structure of a protein allows a  bacteria to interfere with the tomato plant's immune system, and cause bacterial speck disease.

CALS plans reorganization of plant sciences departments
11.16.2011
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is beginning a yearlong planning process to develop a new organizational structure for one of its oldest and most respected areas of expertise - plants.

Fear No Weevil
11.15.2011
Celebrated in song, folklore, and statuary, the boll weevil—scourge of the American cotton industry—is perhaps the best known agricultural pest in the United States. But not so for its weevil cousins, a lacuna that E. Richard Hoebeke and Kent Loeffler are looking to remedy with An Illustrated Identification Guide to the Adventive Weevils of North America.

Scientists tackle threat to N.Y.'s garlic industry
11.02.2011
Scientists led by nematologist George Abawi are undertaking a study to determine the extent of a nematode affecting New York's $24.5 million garlic industry.

Summer scholars hosted by CALS learn about careers
06.20.2011
The Departments of Food Science and of Plant Pathology each host about one dozen undergraduates from around the country as summer scholars to garner career interest in their fields.

Grant will attack late blight outbreaks
03.31.2011
Cornell researchers were recently awarded $1.5 million as part of a $9 million grant to develop a unified, interdisciplinary and tech-savvy approach to outpace the pathogen.

CALS genomicists aim to save citrus from 'greening'
07.17.2009
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is working against a recently introduced disease known as citrus greening, which destroys citrus foods' taste and economic worth.