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Polson Institute for Global Development funds 11 new projects
Announced this month, the Polson Institute of Global Development announce its spring 2025 grant winners, including support for students and faculty to undertake research in the U.S., Africa, South Asia and Latin America. “Never has support for...
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Faculty, staff win 2025 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence

The honor is presented annually, recognizing awardees on campuses across the SUNY system for their commitment to sustaining intellectual vibrancy, advancing the boundaries of knowledge, providing the highest quality of instruction and serving...

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Cornell Atkinson awards catalyze solutions in food, climate, clean energy

Atkinson Venture Fund awards have distributed $21.7 million to 223 projects spanning every college on Cornell’s campus over 15 years.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
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Nine students receive SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

The award is the highest honor bestowed on students by SUNY and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional achievement across a range of areas, including academics, leadership and community service.

  • Food Science
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development
2024 Interdisciplinary Studies Major Graduation

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Celebrating the CALS class of 2025
Join us in recognizing the CALS class of 2025.
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Agriculture
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Creating Peaceful Coexistence in a Context of Chronic Violence
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Seminar Creating Peaceful Coexistence in a Context of Chronic Violence: Masculinity, Intimate Violence, and Everyday Reconciliations in Post-conflict Burundi with Emily Hillenbrand...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
Mushahid Hussain

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Through the Prism of Community Development: Decolonization and Cold War Politics of Agrarian Modernization in East Pakistan
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract Mushahid’s historical sociology study of decolonization addresses enduring questions of how and why the reproduction of colonial hierarchies of power and privilege in the...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
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Sightings from a Socio-narratology: In Dialogue with the Genesis Stories of Rural White Allies
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract In his exit seminar Mike Bishop will explore the vibrant stories shared with him by White anti-racist allies living in the North Country of New York state. Taking a...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
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Food Power Politics: Exploring the Dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement
Fall 2024 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series Abstract In this talk, Bobby J. Smith II briefly outlines the key interventions of his book, Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
Emily Baker

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Reading the Violent Landscape: Agrobiodiversity and Making a Life in the DR Congo-Uganda Borderlands
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract Emily Baker’s doctoral dissertation is guided by the central question of how we can read changes in environmental landscapes as connected with compounding crises in...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
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