Food Systems & Health
Robin Dando Cornell University food scientists have discovered that when mice are fed a high-fat diet and become obese, they lose nearly 25 percent of their tongue’s taste buds As a result, the mice – through an obesity-triggered metabolic malfunction...
The Land Institute/Provided Dehulled grain and unthreshed seed heads of Kernza, which is the first perennial grain crop to be used in commercial products While most industrial grain crops are annuals that must be replanted every year, a new perennial...
The Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Director of the National Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Program at Cornell University, Dr Robert B Gravani brought risk and crisis communication in food safety to Cornell University's Master of Public Health Cohort Risk...
A major study led by Cornell researchers reveals for the first time that water troughs on farms are a conduit for the spread of toxic E coli in cattle, which can then spread the pathogen to people through bacteria in feces The study was published Feb 7 in the...
Provided From left, Sharon Motomura, Chiedozie Egesi and Joana Norton, pose in front of an international hybridization plot at the University of Hawaii, Hilo, which was planted with high-yielding cassava from Africa that is resistant to viruses and elite...
Despite the bad rap snakes often get, they are more central to ecology than most people realize New research reveals that snakes might even play a key role in dispersing plant seeds It’s long been known that some plants disperse their seeds by “hitchhiking”...
Kristen Park/Dyson School Elaine Hill, PhD '14, conducts research in one of the 11 independent grocery stores the Cornell team studied For the first time, Cornell researchers have analyzed where Northeast supermarkets source the foods they sell to their...
GreenStar Community members discuss food issues GreenStar Community Projects and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (CCE-Tompkins) are hosting a gathering and meal to encourage networking among local food providers and others interested in...
“If you have a concept of something you want to fix, how do you go about fixing it” Heather Kolakowski In Hunger, Health and Nonprofit Social Enterprise (HA 4315), Heather Kolakowski’s service-based learning class, she designed the course to introduce students...
“The food system is complicated at all different levels, including at the minute scale of genetics, and you have to explore the tradeoffs” As a plant geneticist, Rebecca Nelson focuses on identifying traits that could improve disease resistance in corn...
Dan Klotz '89/Provided Carmen Moraru, professor of food science, speaks during a briefing in the House of Representatives Nov 2 “How can we improve the safety of the food supply” asked Cornell food scientist Carmen Moraru Moraru, professor of food...