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Celebrating the CALS Class of 2023
With the end of another academic year in sight, we’d like to recognize the CALS undergraduate and graduate classes of 2023.
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  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science
Monifa Morgan-Bell, program assistant for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement, is recognized for paying it forward while fostering and promoting Cornell’s ideals and values. Morgan-Bell is pictured in the garden area behind Warren Hall.

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CALS program assistant builds community here and abroad

In recognition of her support of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement, Monifa Morgan-Bell earned the Award for Staff Integrity and Inclusion, given twice a year by the Employee Assembly and presented at an award ceremony.

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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Cornell, Feed the Future collaboration expands options for farmers in Costa Rica
Research by Ph.D. student Sergio Puerto involved recruiting farmers as citizen-scientists to grow and assess seeds under a far greater diversity of conditions than would be possible for plant breeders to do alone.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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NY high schoolers take the lead in fighting food insecurity at Cornell event
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...
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