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March 1, 2021

Jeffrey Perry earns award for New York agricultural education impact

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Global Development

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February 25, 2021

Search committee set for policy school’s founding dean

A year after the provost announced plans to create a School of Public Policy, following a multiyear review of how to elevate Cornell’s excellence and prominence in the social sciences, the search for its first dean is underway.

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Applied Economics

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February 23, 2021

Leading Through Extension with Humility and Responsibility

In this episode of “ Extension Out Loud,” a podcast by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), Benjamin Houlton, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, shares his journey and his vision for carrying forth Cornell...

Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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February 17, 2021

Porciello to join journal editorial committee at Data & Policy

Data & Policy aims to promote a new theory of policy-data interactions by publishing work that considers systems of policy and data and how they relate to each other, according to the journal. The peer-reviewed journal accepts contributions from...