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With warmer weather approaching, New Yorkers and people all across the Northeast are bracing for the coming of the Emerald Ash Borer or EAB. EAB is an invasive, exotic insect that quickly kills all ash trees once it becomes established in an...

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Natural Resources undergraduate Evan Barrientos documents work in environmental education done by Ninos y Crias, an environmental nonprofit in Yucatán, Mexico, and its significance to the conservation of nature.

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The Goichman name has been associated with Cornell’s enology and viticulture program since 2009, when businessman Larry Goichman ‘66 and his wife, Jennifer, endowed the first professorship of enology and viticulture at the New York State...

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Melissa Warden hopes to better understand behavior and psychiatric conditions by probing the brains of rodents – using pond scum and pulses of light. The newest addition to the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Warden will be aided in her...

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Cannabinoids, naturally occurring compounds found in hemp plants, may have evolved to deter pests from chewing on them, according to experiments that showed higher cannabinoid concentrations in hemp leaves led to proportionately less damage from...

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Cornell researchers are helping to improve and expand a program that makes fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetable more affordable for New York state families with low incomes.

  • Food
  • Department of Communication
  • Agriculture
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Applications are open for Rare and Distinctive Language Fellowships, which offer students intensive summer study in modern languages that are not commonly taught, including Zulu, Finnish, Yiddish, Sinhala, Tibetan and Burmese.

  • Communication
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Gene German, professor emeritus of agricultural economics, died Oct. 9. He was 90.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
A man, Christopher Mahn, holds up a float coat he wore as a mechanic on an aircraft carrier in a classroom. Other military items litter the table in front of him.

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A current student veteran has been exploring the stories of Cornell's military veterans through a collection of interviews and memorabilia.