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Global AI among three projects funded to build better future

A multidisciplinary team aims to build a more inclusive AI shaped by global cultures and knowledge – one of three projects that make up Cornell’s new Global Grand Challenge: The Future.

  • Global Development
  • Development
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Cornell experts to offer solutions at Climate Week NYC

Climate Week NYC will get a Big Red tint as Cornell researchers suggest carbon solutions for the travel industry, discuss agricultural methane and participate in a nuclear energy conference.

  • Climate Change
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Environment
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Harnessing AI for ag research: CALS seed grants support Roadmap to 2050
CALS’ Research and Innovation Office is offering $10,000-$50,000 awards to support proposal development, patent or technology development, commercialization or community uses of AI.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
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Seminar series gift honors Tsujimoto brothers
The newly named seminar series — the Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series — will enable all invited speakers to visit campus to speak on the world’s most urgent challenges. During their time on...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section

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In the field with Jensen Njagi ’25: conservation biocontrol on urban farms
This summer, international agriculture and rural development major Jensen Njagi ’25 interned for Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Conservation Biocontrol on Urban Farms in New York City project. This three-year project is designed to help urban...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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Welcome to Global Development: Ding Fei
Meet Ding Fei, a new senior research associate and lecturer in the Department of Global Development. As a development and economic geographer with a regional focus in East Asia and Africa, Fei studies the political economy of development, global...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Welcome to Global Development: Aubryn Sidle
Meet Aubryn Sidle , Ph.D. ’22, a new lecturer in the Department of Global Development. A former NGO executive focused on girls’ empowerment in East and Southern Africa, Aubryn has deep experience in program design, policy and evaluation centered...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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New-old word in green energy field: Hydrogen
Each year, mid-career professionals from around the world come to Cornell as part of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, building on their skills as leaders in public service within agriculture, rural development and natural resources...
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change

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