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Beekeeping, hydropower: Cornell Atkinson awards nearly $1M in grants

Cornell Atkinson’s annual Academic Venture Fund will provide nearly $1 million in seed funding to support research teams across five colleges and 11 departments, many with key external partnerships.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Animal Science
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Polson Institute grants accelerate global development initiatives
The Polson Institute for Global Development announced its fall 2022 grants to support research at the intersection of systemic inequality and social-environmental justice.
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Migrations grants fund worldwide interdisciplinary projects
Funded projects this cycle reflect the Migrations initiative’s interdisciplinary priorities of racism, dispossession and migration in the United States and international, multispecies migration.
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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Global Development Ph.D. project explores renewable energy, political upheaval
In the summer of 2021, a convergence of political, financial, and infrastructural crises in Lebanon led to severe fuel shortages. Without the diesel necessary to run both the state’s power plants and private backup generators, the country was...
  • Global Development Section
  • Energy
  • Global Development

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Seminar series critiques structural inequalities of international development

In its inaugural year, the Critical Development Studies seminar series opens a space for scholars and students to analyze international development practices and their impacts on social well-being, food systems and environmental justice. Housed...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell land technologies workshop opens for applications
The “ Land Technologies: Interrogating Tools of Governance in the Colonial Present ” workshop, to be held in person from August 8-12 at Cornell University, will provide pre-tenure scholars from any university an opportunity to explore new...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Center for Social Sciences awards fall ’21 grants
The Cornell Center for Social Sciences grant program, which supports social science research by Cornell faculty members and conferences that directly benefit Cornell faculty and students, has awarded $142,636 for 15 proposals for fall 2021.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Department of Communication
  • Department of Entomology
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New series to confront historical injustices of international development
In its inaugural semester, the Critical Development Studies seminar series will bring together scholars and students for conversation around topics of economic power and environmental sustainability in North America and Asia. The new series in...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Power and place in ecological systems

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Environment

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Two CALS faculty among Center for Social Sciences 2021-22 fellows

Political polarization, environmental justice and inclusion in higher education are a few of big issues faculty members will tackle in the next academic year as fellows at the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS). The center has announced a...

  • Global Development Section
  • Department of Communication
  • Global Development
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Jenny Goldstein named faculty fellow at Cornell Center for Social Sciences
Jenny Goldstein , assistant professor of global development, has been named to a prestigious faculty fellowship to develop an ambitious research project focused on environmental rehabilitation in Indonesia. Goldstein will confront the issue of...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development