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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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Spotlight

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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“Malnutrition, both over- and undernutrition, is the leading risk factor for morbidity and mortality globally,” says Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and associate professor...
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
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Field Note

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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LeadNY, a pioneering training program for mid-career professionals, provides intensive one- or two-year programs to improve leadership skills, self-awareness, issues analysis, critical thinking and civic engagement. Based at Cornell University’s...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Two graduate students working with Professor Rachel Bezner Kerr have received funding for research focused on increasing food security from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability . Doctoral students Emily Baker and Emily Hillenbrand...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Environment
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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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A year after the provost announced plans to create a School of Public Policy, following a multiyear review of how to elevate Cornell’s excellence and prominence in the social sciences, the search for its first dean is underway.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Applied Economics
Four girls trek across the desert in Morocco on camels

Field Note

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Multimedia

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In this episode of “ Extension Out Loud,” a podcast by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), Benjamin Houlton, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, shares his journey and his vision for carrying forth Cornell...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jaron Porciello

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Data & Policy aims to promote a new theory of policy-data interactions by publishing work that considers systems of policy and data and how they relate to each other, according to the journal. The peer-reviewed journal accepts contributions from...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
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Field Note

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Environment

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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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But that is not what the science says. The latest papers published by climate scientists on the matter show clearly that the world can still meet the Paris goal of a rise in global temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius that vulnerable developing...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Climate Change
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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
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An anonymous gift of $2.65 million to support Cornell and partner research in Tanzania will improve distribution of new and more resistant varieties of cassava while empowering women and marginalized groups in the East African nation . Cassava...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section