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CALS Global Fellows: Work from Home Edition
Each summer, CALS Global Fellows sends students around the world to work and intern with a variety of host organizations. These positions enhance and complement their career goals and academic progress, while enriching their undergraduate...
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  • Global Development Section
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Sustainability meeting focuses on social justice, environment
The New York Coalition for Sustainability in Higher Education formally organized the conference with hosts Cornell and Ithaca College. It featured three days of problem-solving workshops, such as finding ways to engage students with the United...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section

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Mildred Warner honored by planning schools association

Mildred Warner, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’97, a professor of city and regional planning in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), has received the Margarita McCoy Faculty Award for the advancement of women in planning in higher education...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
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Cornell tool connects farmers to Walmart climate goals
To address this need, researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) have developed an online greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting tool, FAST-GHG, to help quantify these emissions in crop production. Walmart Inc. is...
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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science

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