Food Systems & Health
“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...
Local & Regional Food Systems Strengthening Collaborations across Campus, County and Community Strengthening Connection: Who We Are To catalyze collaboration and strengthen our impact, we are taking some time to get to know our LRFS network and are sharing what we...
Provided Chris Barrett speaks at a forum hosted by the American Enterprise Institute Oct 19 in Washington, DC Congress can change the United States’ international food aid programs to save lives without increasing taxpayer costs, said Cornell expert...
Adam Shelepak ’17 during a visit to campus in late summer I grew up in Endwell, New York, a small town about 40 miles from Cornell University Though it’s a short drive from Ithaca, to me it represented a tremendous shift in worldview My freshman year...
Marin Cherry, MS ’15, course coordinator for Food Science 4000, left, with Professor Chang “Cy” Lee, who teaches the class Last spring, food science major Maddie Parish ’17 and other members of her team in the capstone course Food Science 4000...
Eric Hansen, right, owner of Hansen Farms in Stanley, New York, speaks with Jim Germain, from Feeding America Like many Americans, Hudson Valley apple farmer Steve Pennings watched the devastation of hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria this September and...
Postdoctoral researcher Christine Yao-Yun Chang measures photosynthesis in a soy field near Musgrave Research Farm When it comes to measuring photosynthesis, green is not all that counts A Cornell researcher is using a NASA satellite to measure...
Chris Kitchen/University Photography Neil Mattson, associate professor in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science Growing crops in controlled environments – in greenhouses, plant factories and in vertical farms – provides...
4-H membership openings Enrollment in area 4-H clubs for children and young adults ages 8-18 is now open, as well as for the Cloverbuds program, ages 5-7 years old Hundreds of 4-H members all over Tompkins County are learning subjects as varied as photography and...