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Dear Cornell Cooperative Extension Community, Like so many of you, I am devastated by racist violence and senseless killing of Black men and women, including those that we have heard about in recent weeks: George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and...

• Cornell Cooperative Extension

Rebekah Jones ’20 grew up in Queens, New York, observing the everyday lives of New Yorkers. This sparked her enthusiasm for social science research. After completing a social science research-oriented program in high school, Jones applied to...

• Development Sociology
• Global Development

Seven CALS faculty and professional staff members have been selected for the 2019-20 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. Visit the Cornell Chronicle, for the complete list of all sixteen faculty and...

• School of Integrative Plant Science
• Soil and Crop Sciences Section
• Natural Resources and the Environment Section

The SUNY Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship is a one-time, one-year grant that incentivizes outstanding students at four-year institutions in the state university system to enroll in SUNY graduate programs. The scholarship provides $5,000 in...

• Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
• Biology

Those are some of the questions scholars will study with the help of $118,000 in grants awarded by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS). The center this spring funded 14 research projects and two conferences, involving two-dozen faculty...

• Natural Resources and the Environment Section
• Department of Communication
• Communication

The second Grow-NY food and agriculture business competition is going on as planned, with new safety practices in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers and state officials said May 14 during a virtual briefing. Funded by Empire State...

• Agriculture
• Development
• Applied Economics

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

I hope you have seen President Martha Pollack’s statement released on Friday about the recent killings of Black community members in America. I join President Pollack in expressing sadness and outrage over the killing of George Floyd and far too...