Caldwell Named to USDA National Organic Standards Board

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced September 28 the appointment of five new members to five-year terms on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), including Brian Caldwell (MS ’86 Horticulture). Caldwell has been ...
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October 9, 2020alumni, Horticulture, Organic Agriculture, Research, Soil and Crop Sciences

Howard and Law develop speciation course as part of Cornell team

-Magdalen Lindeberg Eugene Law (Soil & Crop Sciences) and Mia Howard (Plant Biology) have collaborated with 22 other Cornell students to create an active learning evolutionary biology course module, recently published by CourseSource. To ...
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August 21, 2020Diversity & Inclusion, graduate students, Outreach, Plant Biology, Soil and Crop Sciences, Teaching, undergraduateML16

McDonald to offer course on systems analysis tools for agriculture

Andy McDonald, Associate Professor in the SIPS Soil & Crop Sciences Section, is offering a new course on Systems analysis tools for problem solving in agriculture in Fall 2020. McDonald is a cropping systems ...
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August 13, 2020Soil and Crop Sciences, Teaching

Congratulations to SIPS recipients of CALS Outstanding TA Awards

Congratulations to the five SIPS graduate students who receiving CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards 2020. We are thankful for all of our SIPS TAs and particularly for those who met the heroic challenge of ...
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May 26, 2020Awards, graduate students, Horticulture, Plant Biology, Plant Breeding, Plant Pathology, Soil and Crop SciencesML16

Eames-Sheavly and Ryan recipients of 2020 CALS Dean’s Awards

Marcia Eames-Sheavly, Senior Lecturer and Senior Extension Associate in the SIPS Horticulture Section, and Matt Ryan, Associate Professor in the SIPS Soil & Crop Sciences Section, are among fourteen faculty and staff receiving 2020 ...
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May 10, 2020Awards, Horticulture, Soil and Crop SciencesML16

SIPS students awarded at Weed Science Societies meeting

-Toni DiTommaso Congratulations to SIPS students who received awards at the 60th joint meeting of the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) and Western Society of Weed Science (WSWS) held March 2-5, in Maui, ...
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April 30, 2020Conferences, graduate students, Soil and Crop Sciences, undergraduate

Four SIPS students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

-Magdalen Lindeberg Congratulations to SIPS graduate students Eric Branch, Morgan Irons, Clarice Guan, Gordon Younkin, and Brandon Roy who have received NSF-GRFP awards or honorable mentions for 2020! The National Science Foundation Graduate Research ...
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April 1, 2020Awards, graduate students, Plant Biology, Plant Pathology, Soil and Crop SciencesML16

Louis Longchamps to join Soil and Crop Sciences

-Magdalen Lindeberg Louis Longchamps, research scientist in precision agriculture at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada will officially join the SIPS Section of Soil & Crop Sciences on August 1, 2020 in the position of Assistant ...
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March 15, 2020Soil and Crop SciencesML16

Heroic efforts make “Snowcruitment 2020” a success

-Magdalen Lindeberg Recruitment events for the five SIPS graduate fields were underway when Winter Storm Kade arrived early morning, February 7, bringing up to 13 inches of ice and snow accumulation to Ithaca. As ...
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February 12, 2020graduate students, Horticulture, Plant Biology, Plant Breeding, Plant Pathology, Soil and Crop SciencesML16

SIPS research represented at 2020 NEPPS Conference

-Toni DiTommaso SIPS was well represented at the recently completed 2020 Northeastern Plant, Pest, and Soils Conference (NEPPSC) held January 6-9 in Philadelphia, PA.  The theme of the conference was Inclusion in Science.  A ...
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January 12, 2020Conferences, graduate students, Soil and Crop Sciences, undergraduateML16