Enduring two days of brutal, baffling and exhaustive agronomic battle, Cornell’s Courtney Stokes seized second place overall for the Cornell Weed Team at the 2013 North Central and Northeastern Collegiate Weed competition in Monmouth, Ill. Read the full article in the Cornell Chronicle…Continue Reading Stokes pulls up wins in weed competition – Congratulations!
Cornell Professor of soil science, Johannes Lehmann, is featured in a news article on the properties and potential uses of biochar
Cornell Professor of soil science, Johannes Lehmann, was a featured expert in an article on biochar. The article traces the rapid expansion of interest in biochar as a potential soil amendment, and its potential uses for other applications. Lehmann’s work on biochar’s properties and its production by pyrolysis are instrumental in development of its potential. …Continue Reading Cornell Professor of soil science, Johannes Lehmann, is featured in a news article on the properties and potential uses of biochar
Grad student to wrestle weeds in collegiate contest
Poison hemlock, buffalobur and prickly lettuce, prepare to meet your match! The Cornell University Weed Team will send graduate student Courtney Stokes to two days of brutal, mind-bending, grueling agronomic combat at the 2013 North Central and Northeastern Collegiate Weed competition at the Monsanto Learning Center in Monmouth, IL, July 24-25. Read the full article…Continue Reading Grad student to wrestle weeds in collegiate contest
Russ Hahn, associate professor of weed science, honored with a Career Service Award
At the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Branch of Crop, Soil and Agronomy Societies of America (NEBCSA), held in Newark, DE, June 24-26, Russ Hahn, associate professor of weed science, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences was honored with a Career Service Award. Russ Hahn has been with Cornell University since 1974. His expertise…Continue Reading Russ Hahn, associate professor of weed science, honored with a Career Service Award
Two student teams win coveted EPA prize
Two Cornell student teams – a cookstove fuel/biochar group and the AguaClara water filtration project – won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s prestigious People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award June 19. With about 45 teams in the competition, Cornell was the only school with two of the seven winning teams. Congratulations! Read the full Cornell…Continue Reading Two student teams win coveted EPA prize