School of Integrative Plant Science

**Our Vision & History** Building on the strong foundation of our component disciplines to generate new knowledge and address local and global challenges The School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS) comprises approximately 90 faculty working on topics that address major social issues of our day, including food security, climate change, biodiversity and sustainability in natural and anthropogenic ecosystems. The SIPS community envisions fundamental insights as the foundation for achieving better plants, sustainably grown, serving the New York State and global community. - New insights into plant cellular systems, plant interactions with emerging pests and pathogens, stresses of a changing climate, and human nutritional needs will produce a growing queue for useful plant improvements. - Novel and precision agriculture methods can dramatically alter agroecosystems in favor of environmental sustainability and prolonged productivity. - All of these advances have the potential to improve economic activity and human health and well-being locally and around the world. An operating principle of the School is to maximize information flow in all directions across the broad activities that start with fundamental insights and culminate in service to the world.