Susan A. Henry
The Ronald P. Lynch
Dean of Agriculture
and Life Sciences
eCALSconnect - Vol. 14-4 / June 2008
Message from the Dean
The past several months have been eventful and rewarding on many fronts.
Several CALS faculty members have taken on very significant campus leadership roles with decided potential for international impact. Most recently, it was just announced that Alice Pell, professor of animal science and director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development, will begin work July 1 as Cornell’s vice provost for international relations. Anurag Agrawal, associate professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Christopher Barrett, the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, have begun serving as associate directors of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future. And Professor Ronnie Coffman, director of CALS International Programs, is directing an international effort, backed by $26.8 million from the Gates Foundation, to counter the spread of a virulent new strain of wheat stem rust.
Read the rest of the Dean's Message.
Featured photo
Marissa Fessenden
Minns Garden north gate designed by landscape architecture student, Hannah Carlson. Visible in the background is the nearly complete Weill Hall, the New Life Sciences Technology Building.
Features
- Cornell receives “Grand Challenge” award during BioEnergy Awareness Days
- CALS receives award for a white paper outlining vision of the bioenergy future
- Administrators tour the Geneva Experiment Station
- Ithaca chairs' assistants broaden their CALS horizons
- Mann Library launches LanTEEAL 2.0
- Mann's pioneering "library in a box" now dramatically more accessible
- Keuka Lake Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA) training
- Course covers land-use strategies and law, consensus-building skills, and regional stewardship.
- On issues of energy, environment and climate, Cornell experts say they have a leading role to play
- Cornell / community conference considers applied research and extension priorities
- Plantations sequesters carbon, naturally
- Students calculate Plantations contribution to carbon neutrality at Cornell
- Real-time warning system hears whales, prevents collisions with ships near Boston
- Lab of O hopes to improve odds for right whales in the wrong place
- New study shows that transgenic plants don't hurt beneficial bugs
- Plants expressing Bt insecticidal proteins don't harm useful enemy of a devastating vegetable pest