CALS news After years of advocating for funding to improve the infrastructure for grape research, U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Feb. 26 $68.9 million to build a new federal grape genetics ...
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Michael Dosmann (PhD Horticulture ’07) has been named the 2019 recipient of the David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration from the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG). “This is a very prestigious recognition,” says Nina ...
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By Erin Flynn, CALS News : Zachary Stansell, a fourth-year doctoral student in the field of horticulture, is studying under the guidance of Thomas Bjorkman, professor in the Horticulture Section of the School of ...
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Registration is now open for two online courses offered by the Horticulture Section in Cornell’s School of Integrative Plant Science: Organic Gardening is designed to help new gardeners get started and help experienced gardeners broaden ...
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If you’d like to catch a glimpse of students’ final projects in the Art of Horticulture course, you can sneak a peek online. You can also see previous classes’ work (as well as other class projects and ...
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From Science Friday podcast Good news could be coming soon for anyone interested in hemp, the THC-free, no-high strain of cannabis whose use ranges from fibers to food to pharmaceuticals. If the 2018 Farm ...
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Community members from across the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences gathered with friends and family Nov. 5 to celebrate the 15th annual Research, Extension and Staff Awards. The awards observe important and far-reaching ...
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Reposted from the SIPS blog, Discovery that Connects: The trees may still be showing fall color, but Hortus Forum is busy getting ready for the winter holiday. A subset of the club’s members are ...
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Students in Bill Miller’s Annual and Perennial Plant Identification and Use class (PLHRT 3000) got a lesson in efficient bulb planting October 30. Using a tractor-drawn bulb planter imported from The Netherlands that slices ...
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For more nearly 20 years, CALS has bolstered its sustainability research with a steady stream of gifts from the Toward Sustainability Foundation (TSF), a Massachusetts-based organization founded by an anonymous, eco-minded Cornell alumna. Since ...
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