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Hands-on learning for environmental policy processes
Melanie Stansbury M.S. ‘07 came to Cornell intending to earn her Ph.D. in development sociology, with a focus on the governance of water and resolving policy conflicts around tribal and indigenous water rights. One impactful course influenced...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
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Kathryn Boor named Graduate School dean, vice provost
Boor’s term will begin when her successor at CALS is in place and will run through June 30, 2025. The Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees approved Boor’s appointment June 5. Boor will succeed Barbara A. Knuth as dean of the...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Graduate students help drive Cornell’s research mission
Their inquiry and scholarship span the globe, tackling topics from using the human body’s own immune response to fight diseases such as osteoarthritis (Tibra Wheeler, biomedical engineering) to gene sequencing grapevine diseases to improve plant...
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering

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Graduate School dean wins national leadership award

Knuth, also a professor of natural resources in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, received the honor at an awards ceremony held during the council’s 59th annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The award includes a $4,000 prize to...

  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Natural Resources