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On March 21, Cornell CALS hosted 71 high school students from across New York State for the annual New York Youth Institute (NYYI) of the World Food Prize Foundation. The NYYI invites New York high schoolers to research, pitch, and evaluate...
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Eight student delegates from the New York Youth Institute joined 162 other delegates at the 2024 Global Youth Institute, an educational conference for high school students hosted annually by the World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines, Iowa...
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On March 22, the New York Youth Institute (NYYI) united ninety students from 36 high schools across New York State for an enriching day of learning at Cornell University. These bright young minds came together to share their research and...
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Hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines, Iowa, global development professionals and foreign governments gathered for bilateral meetings and main stage sessions. Conversations focused on conflict resilience in the food system...
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Each year, a group of innovative young researchers convene to discuss challenges and propose solutions to issues of food security and climate change. This group, however, is not made up of visiting professors or postdocs but rather the future...