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The national Newman Civic Fellowship recognizes students who address issues of inequality through collaborative action to create long-term social change. Ochoa advocates for incarcerated people serving life sentences in New York state through...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Don Rakow in the garden

Spotlight

Don Rakow has pioneered the concept of Nature Rx, how spending time in nature can improve emotional and physical health.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Faculty experts and Ukrainian students will speak about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens lives, the post–Cold War international order and the stability of the global economy at an event March 17 at 4:30 p.m.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Five undergraduates in Cornell CALS Department of Animal Science, Elizabeth Maslyn ’22, Johnathan King ’22, Colin Kadis ’22, Matthew Peck ’22 and Grace Harrigan ’22 won the Richard Popp Scholarship Award.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Cattle in a field

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Globally, by the end of this century low-income cattle farmers in poor countries may face financial loss between $15 to $40 billion annually, due to looming climate change.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Animals
A shrine on a hill in Tibet

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Hilary Faxon, MS ’17, Ph.D. ’20 investigates the intersections between environment, development, and technology with a focus on social justice in the Global South. Now a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Development
3D printable mask

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A new 3D-printable mask design, inspired by animal noses, promises easy breathing for users while maintaining similar levels of protection against pathogens found in N95 and surgical masks.
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Animals
  • Biology
Bram Govaerts

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Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Bram Govaerts is visiting Cornell’s Ithaca campus the week of March 14. Govaerts is the Director of the Integrated Development Program and Regional Representative for the Americas in the International Maize and...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Soil
Xochitl Torres Small sitting in front of a room of people in Stocking Hall and talking

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USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development Xochitl Torres Small met with members of the Cornell community to discuss critical challenges facing rural areas such as climate change, food supply chain instability and access to resources.
  • Development

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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Rachel Bezner Kerr in Malawi

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Engaging with small-scale farmers in Malawi has given energy to Rachel Bezner Kerr’s work on the 2022 IPCC report on climate change.
Meredith Holgerson, Jillian Goldfarb and Scott Steinschneider

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Three faculty at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) were among 11 Cornell assistant and associate professors who have recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Over the next five...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Professor Emeritus Norman Scott and his wife, Sharon, have endowed a professorship that will support transdisciplinary, innovative research and teaching in food, agriculture and life sciences.

  • Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Agriculture
Girl in bike gear stands on top of hay

Field Note

Meet Lorelei Meidenbauer ’22, whose passion for affordable housing and social justice in the U.S. is helping create a flourishing world. From supporting rural schools in New York State through grant writing to biking across the country with Bike...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Rachel Bezner Kerr in Malawi

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In a global cautionary tale, the UN’s IPCC has a new climate change report written by Cornell’s Rachel Bezner Kerr and 270 others, to pull our planet from dire environmental ruin.
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
A view of the 3D model of Red Hook Farm in Brooklyn, New York, featuring a processing shed and high tunnels for vegetable production

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Cornell researchers have created the most advanced virtual reality urban farm tour ever made, an online learning experience that promises to transport urban and rural farmers to New York City’s Red Hook Farms without ever leaving home.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

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  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Soil