ITHACA, N.Y. — Steven Vincent Beer ’65, whose work to discover the fundamental mechanisms of plant bacterial disease and immunity still serves as a foundation for research to protect the world’s apples, pears and many other plants, died Jan. 12 in Ithaca. He was 81. Beer, professor emeritus of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology in the […]

ITHACA, N.Y. — Everett Donald Markwardt, M.S. ’51, a leader in reforms that modernized agricultural outreach and support across the Northeast, has died at the age of 100. A professor emeritus of agricultural engineering in what is now the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering (BEE), Markwardt died Dec. 11, 2021, in Montour Falls, New […]

ITHACA, N.Y. — Richard Allison Ledford, whose work in food microbiology contributed to New York’s booming dairy and yogurt industries, died Oct. 9, 2021, in Flat Rock, North Carolina. He was 90. Ledford, Ph.D. ’62, was professor emeritus of food science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and chaired the Department of Food […]

SANTA ANITA, Calif. — Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit collapsed and died after a workout Monday at Santa Anita. The 3-year-old colt trained by Bob Baffert had just completed five furlongs in his second workout since finishing second in the Breeders’ Cup Classic a month ago at Del Mar, according to Craig Robertson, Baffert’s attorney. […]

BOLTON, Mass. (AP) — A 73-year-old volunteer at a Massachusetts animal therapy farm died over the weekend after she was repeatedly rammed by a sheep, police said. Kim Taylor, of Wellesley, was caring for livestock in a pen alone at about 9 a.m. Saturday morning at Cultivate Care Farms in Bolton “when a sheep charged […]