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New student hub honors beloved professor Daniel Sisler
The hub honors Daniel G. Sisler, Ph.D. ’62, who was an inspiring teacher, beloved mentor and world-renowned hunger fighter who touched the lives of over 12,000 students during his 34-year career in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life...
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Building deconstruction, reuse would benefit NYS jobs, climate

Transitioning to a circular construction economy in New York state could unlock economic activity, create green jobs and advance climate goals, according to a Cornell-led white paper that provides policy recommendations.

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Meet our faculty: Aaron Benanav
Academic focus: Labor, technology and economic development Lab website: www.aaronbenanav.com Research summary: My research investigates the historical and structural forces shaping contemporary labor markets, with a particular emphasis on the...
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Meet our faculty: Andrew Bell
Academic focus: Rural livelihoods decision-making Research summary: We do pro-poor, people-first environment and development research in areas like migration, agricultural development, irrigation and human-wildlife conflict. We focus on...
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Field Note

Kate McHale ‘24: Advocating for youth empowerment and nutrition policy
Meet Kate McHale’24, an undergraduate in Global Development who is on a mission to increase youth engagement specifically as it relates to nutrition. As an eight-year alumna and current student leader of 4-H, Kate advocates for youth’s voices in...
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  • Agriculture
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Field Note

Internship connects Puerto Rican agricultural students with Cornell
In 2022, five students from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez spent their summer at Cornell for an intensive internship with faculty from across the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
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Field Note

Home gardening for life
Chindavone (Chin) Sanlath is an environmental and social consultant at Earth Systems and a certified lead auditor in integrated management systems. She is currently a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow in the Department of Global Development at Cornell...
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Field Note

Improving public sector plant breeding for the future of food security
Public plant breeding programs play a central role in tackling local food security challenges around the world, but how can we be sure that they are operating effectively and optimally at the institutional level? In this blog series, the Feed...
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