CALS Professors Brief Congressional Staff on Food Safety
Just days before a U.S. House committee voted to expand the FDA's power to monitor the U.S. food supply, food scientists Kathryn Boor and Robert Gravani briefed D.C. staffers about food safety issues.
Disease That Caused Irish Potato Famine is Devastating Tomatoes, Potatoes This Year
Gardeners beware: In the eastern U.S., late blight is killing tomato and potato plants earlier than ever before, and basil downy mildew is affecting plants in gardens and on commercial farms.
Experts Examine Risks to Birds From Wind Turbines
At campus conference, Lab of Ornithology researchers show how bioacoustics recorders could measure threat of wind farms to migratory birds.
Deadly Beetle Threatens New York's Ash Trees
The threat posed by the emerald ash borer is "extreme," says entomologist E. Richard Hoebeke. "There is the potential for ash as we know it to be extirpated from the landscape."
Study: Milk Production Goes Green
Dale E. Bauman, Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Animal Science, leads a study that shows the dairy industry uses roughly one-third less land, feed, and water than 60 years ago.
Cornell Celebrates Long-standing Ties with Sathguru Management Consultants
Indian firm has partnered with CALS to develop South Asia’s first genetically modified food crop and to enable joint degree programs and educational exchanges.
Microsensor to Give Growers Real-time Glimpse into Water Stress in Plants
NYS Agricultural Experiment Station researcher Alan Lakso joins with Cornell engineers to apply cutting-edge engineering to practical agricultural concerns.
CALS Clicks: Photos From Around the College
Want False Hopes with that Lottery Ticket?
David Just, associate professor of applied economics and management, speaks to the Hartford Courant about strong correlations between poverty and playing the lottery.
Are Cookie Dough Concerns Half-Baked?
Professor of Food Science Kathryn Boor discusses with CNBC Nestle's recall of cookie dough products in response to E. coli fears.
A ‘Time Bomb’ for World Wheat Crop
The Los Angeles Times interviews CALS researchers Ronnie Coffman and Rick Ward about the fight against stem rust, a danger to the world's wheat crop.
Made@CALS: Designer Dirt
A specially engineered soil provides urban tree roots room to grow while limiting the threat of buckling pavement overhead.
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CaRDI Research: Emerging Trends in the Marcellus Shale (PDF)
As companies seek to drill the Marcellus Shale in New York’s Southern Tier, an underground formation believed to contain one of the world’s largest deposits of natural gas, landowners and state and local policymakers are grappling with the economic, social, environmental, and regulatory ramifications. Public session schedule.
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Cornell Cooperative Extension Public Sessions on Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Drilling
July 16, 22, 28, & August 5, 17, 2009 | NY Southern Tier
Aurora Farm Field Day
July 23, 2009 | Aurora, NY
CUVEE: Cornell University Viticulture and Enology Experience
August 2-7, 2009 | Ithaca
A Day at Saratoga Raceway
August 9, 2009 | Saratoga, NY
Cornell Alumni Picnic & Wine Tasting at Raphael Vineyards
August 9, 2009 | Peconic, NY
Empire Farm Days
August 11-13, 2009 | Seneca Falls, NY
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