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Recent Cornell Chronicle stories: Experts help schools meet new state pesticide mandates – Cornell experts from the Department of Horticulture — including Jenny Kao-Kniffin and Marty Petrovic (right) — and the New York ...
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Special seminar Dec. 1: The peach genome
The peach genome: a model for fruiting and forest tree genetics and genomics Dr. Albert Abbott Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry and Coker Chair in Plant Molecular Biology Department of Genetics and Biochemistry Clemson ...
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Video: Orchard ground management seminar
If you missed Monday’s Department of Horticulture seminar featuring Amaya Atucha, PhD candidate, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University, on Effects of Ground Management Systems in an apple and avocado orchard, it’s available online.
New online botanical illustration course
Marcia Eames-Sheavly has added a third online botanical illustration course to the distance learning courses offered by the Department of Horticulture: Botanical Illustration III: Advanced Techniques. The 7-week course (as well as the next ...
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Hortus Forum poinsettia sale Dec. 5 & 9
Hortus Forum, Cornell’s student horticulture club, will be holding its annual poinsettia sale on December 5 and 9, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Kenneth Post Labs Greenhouses on Tower Road. (Near the ...
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Why Do We Need Trees? at 92nd St. Y in NYC
Lecture at New York City’s 92nd Street Y: “Why Do We Need Trees?” Nina Bassuk, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University 12/07/2011 – 7:00pm Even with all of the best of intentions, anyone trying to ...
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Restoration ecology students to present Cayuga Inlet dredging findings Dec. 1
Every fall, students in Restoration Ecology (HORT 4400) take on a real-world project in the local community, working together to gather data, analyze the issues and report their findings. (See To dredge or not ...
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Video: Beginning farmer panel discussion
If you missed Thursday night’s screening of The Greenhorns, you can at least catch the panel discussion featuring Violet Stone (CCE Small Farm Program), Dan Flerlage (Localvores Committee Coordinator at Lehman Alternative Community School ...
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Video: Life Sciences Core Resources at Cornell seminar
If you missed Monday’s Department of Horticulture seminar featuring George Grills, director of operations, Core Facilities in the Life Sciences, it’s available online.
Zeltmann receives NOAA award
Via eCALSconnect: Gerard ‘Rod’ Zeltmann, field assistant at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center (LIHREC) received the John Campanius Holm Award by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The award honors ...
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