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Renegotiated trade deal benefits US dairy producers

The United States and Canada have been fighting about milk for years, but new Cornell research suggests recent Canadian trade concessions removed some barriers to U.S. dairy exports.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
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Dynamic acoustics of hand clapping, elucidated

With high-speed cameras, researchers measured the physical forces involved in a handclap, with potential applications in bioacoustics and identification, whereby a handclap could be used to identify someone.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Behavior
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Cornell faculty honored for community-engaged innovation

Thirteen faculty members from across Cornell are being honored by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement with this year’s Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Energy
  • Climate Change
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Cornell Atkinson awards support biodiversity and sustainability research

Cornell Atkinson is supporting 36 graduate students whose work protects biodiversity, improves health, reduces climate risk and more.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Acting Towards Epistemic Justice with Campesina/os in Northern Antioquia, Colombia
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract Since first establishing contact in 2021, I have been working in close relation with Movimiento Ríos Vivos (MRV / Living Rivers Movement), a campesina/o movement in...
  • global development
  • Environment
  • Energy

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Under the Patronage of the Sun. The Technopolitics of Lebanon’s Energy Transition
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract This dissertation analyzes Lebanon’s swift shift towards decentralized solar energy in response to the severe energy crisis of 2021. Prolonged fuel shortages and widespread...
  • global development
  • Environment
  • Solar energy
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