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Historic gift endows Cornell CALS Ashley School

The Department of Global Development and the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment have been combined to establish a new school: the Cornell CALS Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Study trips to advance engaged learning experiences in global development
A new style of engaged courses in Global Development will allow students to apply classroom-based lessons in real-world development contexts. Launching in the fall semester, Global Development will offer two immersive faculty-led study trips...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
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United Nations FAO competition gains from global development perspective
When the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations challenged young researchers to think of ways to end hunger  and  transform agrifood systems, it hoped to inspire innovative thinking in sustainable development. More than 160...
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change
  • Food
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Shifting demographics, transforming generations

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell joins global research university climate alliance
On April 2, Cornell became a founding member of the International Universities Climate Alliance, in which faculty members will work to identify ways for communicating evidence-based climate science to the global community.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Development Sociology
  • Environment

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New global development unit calls for ‘education with impact’

The Department of Global Development will draw from faculty across the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to create a unified development studies program focused on engagement with the world’s grand challenges at home and abroad...

  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Professor delivers sustainability report to UN secretary-general
This report supplements annual reviews done internally at the U.N. by giving an independent and broad-based assessment of the current trends in global development and to review how the world can chart a better future. Guterres will present the...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Development Sociology
  • Environment
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Experts grapple over trust and translation at Polson Institute Symposium
Cornell’s Polson Institute for Global Development held a symposium May 11 exploring how science and policy intersect in driving global sustainable development.
  • Global Development Section

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‘Building Sustainable Communities’ Forum Is Sept. 28-29

Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) hosts “Building Sustainable Communities: Global Forces, Local Focus,” Sept. 28-29 on campus to help communities become more sustainable.