Alan Taylor on ‘Going Green’
If you missed it last week, Alan Taylor was featured on a Growing Green segment on Time-Warner Cable News: How Can You Protect Your Seeds from Diseases? Taylor is a professor in the Horticulture ...
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Yearly Archives: 2015
Cornell Plantations Names New Director of Horticulture
Reposted from CALS Notes : Rhoda Maurer from Geneva, NY has been named Director of Horticulture at Cornell Plantations beginning February 1, 2015. Prior to joining Plantations, she managed the grounds and greenhouses of ...
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Looking for an internship? Deadlines loom.
Know what you’ll be doing this summer? If you’re looking for some great career-related, hands-on experience, now is the time to be pinning down that summer internship that matches your interests. Here are some ...
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Seminar video: Senescence of the whole plant
If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, Senescence of the whole plant: a look back and a look forward, with Peter Davies, Plant Biology and Horticulture Sections, Cornell University, it’s available online. (View abstract.) More ...
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$712,500 NIFA grant to help Beginning Farmers Project serve veterans & ‘advanced beginners’
By John Carberry, reposted from CALS Notes A well-established agricultural outreach effort run by Cornell University is taking on a new mission designed in part to help returning veterans find futures in farming, ...
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Bassuk named Weiss fellow
Cornell Chronicle : Nina Bassuk, professor of horticulture; Marie Caudill, professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences; and Rajit Manohar, professor of electrical and computer engineering, are the newest recipients of Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships in ...
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Dreer Seminar Feb. 4: Cool-season viticulture in N.Z.
Mark you calendar… Lindsay Jordan (MS ’14) will deliver her Dreer Award seminar detailing her recent adventures exploring cool-season viticulture in New Zealand February 4 at 12:15 p.m. in Plant Science 22. The Frederick Dreer Award, administered ...
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New Titan Arum time-lapse
This video was created by Eric L. Gasteiger, Videographer/Producer for Cornell University Communications (Marketing) during the November 2014 flowering of Cornell’s Titan Arum, ‘Wee Stinky’ — part of the Plant Biology Section’s Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium collection. Gasteiger ...
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In the news
Horticulture PhD student Grant Thompson (Kao-Kniffin Lab) won best graduate student presentation (out of 18 entries) place at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Weed Science Society (NEWSS) January 6 in Williamsburg, Va. Thompson’s talk ...
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Cornell Orchards offers summer internships
Cornell Orchards internships provide: Research experience (field and lab) Hands-on field experience (grapes, apples, peaches, berries) Opportunities to interact closely with Cornell pomology faculty Opportunities to interact with local vineyards and orchards Pay: $11/hour ...
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