Cornell Chronicle Here’s the scientific dirt: Soil can help reduce global warming. While farm soil grows the world’s food and fiber, scientists are examining ways to use it to sequester carbon and mitigate ...
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Larry Smart has been promoted to Professor effective April 1. Smart is based at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, in Geneva, N.Y., where his lab focuses on breeding, genetics, genomics, and physiology of shrub ...
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From Jingjing Yin, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Horticulture Section: We invite everyone with an interest in biochar to attend the first Cornell-wide biochar conference organized by the project team Best use practices for improving soil health ...
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The Horticulture Sections’s online Organic Gardening course is designed to help new gardeners get started and help experienced gardeners broaden their understanding of organic techniques for all kinds of gardens. The course runs May ...
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From Hortus Forum, Cornell’s undergraduate horticulture club: Don’t miss out on your chance to grab Hortus Forum’s beautiful selection of bulbs for the holiday weekend! 12” Hyacinths, Tulips, Daffodils, Muscari – $10 5” Cyclamen – $6 6” Cyclamen – $8 ...
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From Mark Bridgen, Professor and Pi Alpha Xi advisor: Pi Alpha Xi (PAX), the national honor society for horticulture, inducted new members on March 13, 2016. (See photo caption below.) Only the best students in ...
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From Hannah Swegarden, PhD candidate, Graduate Field of Horticulture, who traveled to Washington, D.C., March 14-15 as one of 18 students nationwide who received the 2016 Future Leaders in Science Award from ASA, CSSA and SSSA: The 2016 Congressional ...
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Slope Media : “… How can Cornellians stay constantly flummoxed with all this natural beauty surrounding them? “Nature Rx is a new mental health campaign that works to address this issue. Don Rakow, professor ...
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CALS Notes : Elizabeth “Betsy” Bihn, PhD, has been appointed Executive Director of the Institute for Food Safety at Cornell University. Established in December 2015 with a $2 million state grant, the Institute for ...
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Happy 158th birthday (March 15) to Liberty Hyde Bailey, the noted horticulturalist, botanist, and first CALS dean! Learn more about Bailey. Visit the Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory website. Matt Hayes, CALS Communications
