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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...
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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...
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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.
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