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Smart food choices at family level can ease chronic illness

Promoting healthy diets for the entire family can better improve health outcomes for people with chronic illnesses, according to a new Cornell study.

  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food
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Cornellian Dake wins second Olympic wrestling bronze

Wrestler Kyle Dake ’13, one of five Cornellians in Paris for the Olympic Games, defeated Hetik Cabolov of Serbia, 10-4, in the 74-kilogram division on Aug. 10 to win his second consecutive Olympic bronze medal.

  • Global Development Section
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Beekeeping, hydropower: Cornell Atkinson awards nearly $1M in grants

Cornell Atkinson’s annual Academic Venture Fund will provide nearly $1 million in seed funding to support research teams across five colleges and 11 departments, many with key external partnerships.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Animal Science
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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New report on conservation, land-use in the Hudson River Estuary Watershed
The new report, Natural Resource Protection in the Hudson Valley: Municipal Conservation Stories, presents case studies from seven Hudson Valley towns and highlights the experiences, challenges, and successes of elected officials and municipal...
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment

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Field Note

Democratizing data through Communities of Practice
It can be a cumbersome process for projects to collect and report performance metrics to donors only to see the data disappear into a black box of reporting systems. So, then we ask: how can project members, especially local partners, make...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Field Note

Ndunge Kiiti: Welcome to Global Development
Meet Ndunge Kiiti, PhD '02, adjunct associate professor in Global Development. With expertise in communication, education, health and entrepreneurship, she brings more than 30 years of experience in international development. Her recent work...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Field Note

High school teachers pilot Cornell-developed ag sustainability curriculum
What are the goals of the NMB curriculum? Olivo: It is important to engage youth in different aspects of agriculture and sustainability. Growing awareness about sustainability among new generations is very relevant to getting them interested in...
  • Animal Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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Field Note

Research, policy, and the future of sustainable agriculture
Veronika Vogel ’21 came to Cornell CALS from Nesselwang, Germany seeking to make a positive impact on the global food system. As an International Agriculture & Rural Development major with minors in Plant Science and Plant Breeding, Veronika...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Global Development

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