Nina Bassuk, founder of Cornell University’s Urban Horticulture Institute, was awarded the 2015 Frederick Law Olmsted Award from the Arbor Day Foundation. (See April 6 post.) Bassuk is a professor in the Horticulture Section of Cornell’s School ...
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Wednesday, workers began filling the Palm House section of the newly constructed Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory on Tower Road with 180 yards of soil. The growing medium is a mix of coconut coir, biochar ...
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Celebrating The Year of Soils Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 9:00am to 4:00pm Mann Library Lobby Join Cornell and the School of Integrative Plant Sciences in celebrating The Year of Soils. The Soil and Crop ...
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Cornell Chronicle : The fourth floor of Mann Library on campus houses the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Herbarium, a collection of more than a million dried and preserved plant specimens. The roots of this ...
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24 graduate students, undergrads, faculty, staff and family members visited The Niagara Parks School of Horticulture, Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Highland Park in Rochester, N.Y., during a field trip Sunday sponsored by Pi Alpha ...
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Researchers working with Cornell’s collection of rare titan arum plants are hoping three blooms will point them toward answers. For those who may have missed it, one of ...
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Hortus Forum, Cornell’s undergraduate horticulture club, revived a dormant tradition Friday: They planted and dedicated a tree to Marcia Eames-Sheavly, the club’s faculty adviser, in recognition of her service. The weeping cherry is located ...
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If you fell asleep, Walter De Jong, potato breeder in the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, appeared on The Daily Show last night in an investigative segment The Return of a Simplot Conspiracy. “Walter ...
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What’s a tree worth? Students in Creating the Urban Eden: Woody Plant Selection, Design, and Landscape Establishment (HORT/LA 4910/4920) are helping to make people more aware of why trees are worth hugging by hanging bright green ...
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Just in time for Charter Day festivities … 150 Years of Plant Science at Cornell Through vintage images, explore the history of plant science at Cornell — the students, the faculty, the Nobel laureates ...
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