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Cornell-led coalition protects world’s wheat crop

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Food
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Cornell social scientists honored for rural community impact
The project, known as W4001, conducts research on the most pressing challenges faced by rural communities, where population trends are reshaping arenas such as food production and natural resource management, land use, ecological sustainability...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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In time of COVID-19, Global Development students work globally, remotely

  • CALS Global Fellows Program
  • Global Development Section
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Ben Fields ’20: Big heart, bigger hopes to change the world

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Hunger fighters 'Take It to the Farmer' in June 25 virtual event from BGRI

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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New Engaged Research Grants awarded to 14 partnerships
Fourteen teams of faculty and community partners have received Engaged Research Grants from the Office of Engagement Initiatives to increase undergraduate involvement in research that strengthens the well-being of communities. “By combining two...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animal Science
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Alliance for Science Live kicks off June 15

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
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Sawako Suzuki '20: Engaging with the local community

  • Global Development Section
  • Food
  • Global Development
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Anastashia Alfred ‘20: A journey of academics, athletics and volunteerism
With a passion to make an impact on food security, food waste and water issues, Anastashia Alfred ‘20 raced into research on structural inequalities. A Development Sociology major from Texas, Anastashia shares her experience in research...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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Annie Weiss '21: Understanding gendered portrayal of food

Co-taught by Neil Lewis, Jr., assistant professor of communication, and René Kizilcec, assistant professor of information science, COMM/INFO 4800 is a capstone seminar that combines applied quantitative research methods and social behavioral...

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Raymer earns CALS diversity and inclusion award

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
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Social sciences center awards COVID-19 grants
As the coronavirus pandemic escalated in the United States, reports of bias and hostility against immigrants and Asian Americans also grew. New research supported by a rapid response grant from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) will...
  • Global Development Section
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development
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Bangladeshi farmers reap higher yields, profits from Bt eggplant

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Department of Entomology
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Wheat initiative celebrates women leaders in fight to end hunger

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Celebrating the CALS Class of 2020
As this semester draws to a close, we would like to take moment to recognize the CALS graduating class of 2020 and echo the sentiments President Pollock shared in her recent address to the Cornell community. During their time at Cornell, members...
  • Animal Science
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science

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COVID-19 impact: Mary Jo Dudley on vulnerable farmworkers

Mary Jo Dudley, MRP ’96, an expert in farmworker issues, talks about how the pandemic has underlined the importance of farmworkers, who are crucial to maintaining the country’s food supply. Farmworkers are essential workers, and are particularly...

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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CLASP student mentors adjust to learning in place
“In the medical profession, you’re always going to be learning and teaching others,” said Nadella, a biology and society major. “I joined the Community Learning and Service Partnership (CLASP) for just that reason: to learn how to be a lifelong...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Cornell leads effort to provide masks for incarcerated people
A Cornell administrator is leading a statewide effort to protect one of the most vulnerable populations from COVID-19. Rob Scott, director of Cornell Prison Education Program, has organized 14 New York colleges and universities to provide masks...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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Cornell Atkinson awards five more COVID-19 rapid grants

Since requesting emergency seed-grant proposals in early April, Cornell Atkinson has announced a total of seven Rapid Response Fund grants, including five since the start of May. Also among the newest faculty projects to be funded are studies of...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Community and Regional Development Institute
  • Global Development Section
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Mary Beth Dale '21: Creating sustainable paths forward

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development