Jeremy Schwartzbord,
graduate student, has won a U.S. Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security as part of CIMMYT's Feed the Future 21st Century Leadership Program. This fellowship will provide funding for his project: "Elucidation of Aflatoxin Exposure among Rural Haitians and Acceptability of Peanut-Based Animal Feed for Farmers" Read more...

Xingen Lei,
Professor, has been selected as the 2013 ASAS Bouffault International Animal Agriculture Award recipient. He will receive this award at the ASAS awards ceremony this summer.

Jerrie Gavalchin,
Associate Professor, will recieve the 2013 Professor of Merit Award at the Dean's Awards Reception on 04/22/2013 in the Carrier Ballroom of the Statler Hotel.

Debbie Cherney,
Associate Professor, will be receiving the SUNY Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Dean's Awards Reception on 04/22/2013 in the Carrier Ballroom of the Statler Hotel.

Quirine Ketterings,

associate professor of nutrient management; Curt Gooch, a dairy facility and waste management engineer in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and senior extension associate with PRO-DAIRY; and

Larry Chase, professor of animal science and extension specialist in dairy nutrition, are part of a team that was recently awarded a 9.9 million dollar grant to to reduce dairy's environmental hoofprint. The team, including scientists from seven universities, has joined forces with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on a five-year project to study the environmental impact of dairy production systems in the Great Lakes region and develop best management practices for producers to implement on farms. Emissions of greenhouse gases and ammonia, soil carbon sequestration, and soil and forage quality will be measured during ongoing dairy forage production field experiments in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New York, with the goal of understanding how various management practices and regional climate differences affect carbon, nitrogen, water and energy fluxes across the dairy production system.

Read more in the Cornell Chronicle...

Walk Trot Hop - Animal Crackers
Held on Saturday, May 4th, the 23rd annual educational spring outreach event, affectionately known as "Animal Crackers" hosted by the Department of Animal Science, exceeded capacity in Morrison Hall with over 300 participants travelling from 33 different counties in New York State. See press release.

Galton Retirement Nearly 250 people gathered in Liverpool, NY in March at a special celebration event held in honor of Dr. David Galton's May 2013 retirement, his vision and success with the Dairy Fellows program, and in recognition of all of the generous donors who have given to the new Dairy Fellows Program Excellence Endowment. See complete article.

Dairy Quiz Bowl -Led by Debbie Grusenmeyer (Extension Associate/ PRO-DAIRY Youth Specialist) and Matt Young (Cornell Animal Science '02) a team of New York 4-H youth recently won the National 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl Championship title for the 10th time. See complete article.