Garden cover crop workshop Sept. 6
Calling all Gardeners! Would you like to: Improve your soil? Add nutrients for next year’s veggies? Start out with a weed-free plot next Spring? Come learn how at the workshop led by Megan M. ...
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Events
Jordan receives NESARE grad student grant
MS candidate Lindsay Jordan received $14,876 for her project Investigating annual under-vine cover crops as a sustainable alternative to herbicides in Northeast vineyards from the Northeast Region of the USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and ...
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Looking for courses this fall?
There are a whole bunch of exciting ‘Special Topics in Horticulture’ (HORT 4940) courses being offered this semester, including: Forests, Fields and Swamps (1 credit) Instructor: Tom Whitlow This seven-week course that starts on ...
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In the news
Floriculture Field Day 2013 – In his welcome, CALS senior associate dean Jan Nyrop told the gathered floriculture professionals about a Scottish study that showed walking in green spaces and parks ...
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New course: Arboriculture – applied tree care
This course (new for Fall 2013) will prepare you to take International Society of Arboriculture’s (ISA) certification exam. You’ll get hands-on experience with: Tree establishment Assessing plant health Worker safety Pruning techniques Urban forestry ...
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Congratulations Lindsay!
From Justine Vanden Heuvel: I just wanted to share the good news that Lindsay Jordan won “Best student paper in Viticulture” at the American Society of Enology and Viticulture – Eastern Section meeting in ...
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ScientifInk! Alex Paya
From an ongoing series on researchers and their tatoos at CALS Notes: Today’s ScientifInk! features the botanical tattoo of CALS graduate student, Alex Paya, whose elaborate ink was inspired by his Ph.D. research studying tree ...
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Kudos
Some recent recognitions: PhD candidate Hiromi (Romi) Tasaki and Alan Taylor won the excellence in presentation award at the International Seed Testing Association Seed Symposium in Antalya, Turkey, for their poster Seed Encapsulation and ...
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Commencement pictures
To relive some of the magic from last weekend, check out Carol Grove’s Picasa gallery. If you have pictures you’d like to share, send a link to your gallery to cdc25@cornell.edu and I’ll add to ...
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Potato may help feed Ethiopia in era of climate change
From Cornell Chronicle article by Blaine Friedlander 2013-05-14: With unpredictable annual rainfall and drought once every five years, climate change presents challenges to feeding Ethiopia. Adapting to a warming world, the potato is becoming ...
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