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The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences welcomed nine new faculty members this fall, advancing the college’s commitment to pursuing purpose-driven science and improving the lives of people across New York state and around the world.

Confronting complex challenges and pioneering new solutions are key facets of the college’s mission. Learn more about all our new faculty members in the profiles below.
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Monica Cornejo

Assistant professor, Department of Communication

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Swanne Gordon

Assistant professor, Department of of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; CALS graduate diversity and inclusion lead

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Lawrence Jin

Associate professor of finance, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

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Chuan Liao

Assistant professor, Department of Global Development

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Andrés López-Sepulcre

Assistant professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Yiqi Luo

Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science

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Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou

Assistant professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

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Hale Ann Tufan

Associate professor, School of Integrative Plant Science

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Wendong Zhang

Assistant professor of applied economics and policy, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

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Students and faculty from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’  Department of Landscape Architecture and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy are helping the City of Ithaca assess and improve the city's park system.

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Students and faculty will help the city transform its parks and their care – with new landscaping features and a proposed maintenance plan and governance structure.

  • Landscape Architecture
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New study asserts that systematic change in food production and consumption requires real political capital and will.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Agriculture