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Celebrating the CALS Class of 2024
With the end of another academic year in sight, we’d like to recognize the CALS class of 2024.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Animal Science
  • Department of Communication
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LeadNY announces new class of food, ag and natural resources leaders
Class 20 advances to second year of leadership development program LeadNY, Cornell’s leadership development academy, is pleased to announce its 2024-25 cohort of leaders in the food, agriculture and natural resources sectors of the Northeast...
  • Global Development
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Four Cornell professors elected to national academy

Mario Herrero, Timothy Ryan, M.S. ’86, Ph.D. ’89, Steven Strogatz and Peter Wolczanski are Cornell’s 2024 electees to the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced April 30 at the close of its 161st annual meeting.

  • Global Development
  • Global Development Section
  • Cornell Atkinson
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Satellite images of plants’ fluorescence can predict crop yields

Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a new framework that allows scientists to predict crop yield without the need for enormous amounts of high-quality data – which is often scarce in developing countries, especially those facing...

  • Agriculture
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science

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An unusual Humphrey Fellowship year

  • Global Development Section
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Field Note

Cornell Humphrey Fellows’ inspiring resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Field Note

Community land rights in a globalized world
Indigenous communities in the tropical lowlands of Latin America have for generations faced insecure claims on their lands. In recent years, efforts to formally recognize land rights have merged with environmental policies to protect forests and...
  • Global Development Section
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