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NYS 4-H Livestock Ambassadors enjoy hands-on industry experience
The New York State 4-H Livestock Ambassador Program recently offered an immersive, multi-day educational experience for youth participants, providing hands-on exposure to New York’s diverse livestock industries. The program began with a visit to...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
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Research Guides Apple Growers Beyond Synthetic Fungicides
Apple scab, caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis, is one of the most economically devastating diseases facing apple growers in the Northeast. Managing it has long depended on regular fungicide applications—and for many growers, that means...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Five from Cornell named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows

Five Cornell faculty members are among 126 early-career researchers across North America who have won 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

  • Communication
Yoselyn Hernández Chaves (left), master's student in applied economics and management, studied consumer and industry preferences on red beans in Costa Rica last summer.

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Einaudi travel grants send grad students abroad

Eighty-three graduate students travelled internationally for fieldwork last summer with the support of research travel grants from the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Their work sent them to every continent except Antarctica and...

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
Researchers have found that enhanced rock weathering – which uses rock dust to sequester carbon in soil - could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

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Widespread ‘enhanced rock weathering’ could slow global warming

One of the most recent technologies for sequestering carbon, enhanced rock weathering could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change