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John Sipple

Professor

Global Development Section

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Global Development Section

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Interest

  • Pk-12 education
  • Sociology of communities
  • Policy
Margaret Smith

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

Professor

Global Development Section

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Interest

  • Maize breeding and genomics
  • Abiotic stress tolerance
  • Insect and disease resistance
Angie Smith

Finance Specialist

Global Development Section

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Kristina Sokourenko

Ph.D. Student, Development Studies

Global Development Section

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  • kvs53 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Food systems monitoring
  • Sustainable diet quality
  • Affordability of healthy diets & poverty measurement
Camillo Stubenberg

Ph.D. Candidate, Development Sociology

Global Development Section

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  • css295 [at] cornell.edu
Erika Styger

Professor of the Practice

Global Development Section

Director, Climate-Resilient Farming Systems Program

Global Development Section

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  • eds8 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
  • Sustainable Land and Water Management (SLWM)
  • Agrobiodiversity management and agroforestry
Marina Sundiang

Postdoctoral Associate, Food Systems and Global Change

Global Development Section

Contact

  • msundiang [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of complex systems
  • Computational modeling
  • Network Science
Philip Thornton

Visiting Professor

Global Development Section

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  • p.thornton [at] cgiar.org

Interest

  • Cropping and livestock systems
  • Agricultural and environmental sustainability
  • Food systems
Ying Tu

Postdoctoral Associate

Global Development Section

Contact

  • yt668 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Land Cover/Land Use Monitoring
  • Agricultural Sustainability
  • Environment, Development, and Justice
Terry Tucker

RTE Emeritus Professor of the Practice

Global Development Section

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Interest

  • International agriculture & rural development
  • Participatory research & extension
  • Higher education & development
Lawrence Van De Valk

Senior Extension Associate

Global Development Section

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Interest

  • Leadership development
  • Team building
  • Leadership assessments
Hannah van Zanten

Visiting Professor

Global Development Section

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Dan Verderosa

Communications and outreach manager, Tata-Cornell Institute

Global Development Section

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  • dv242 [at] cornell.edu
Leslie Verteramo Chiu

Research Associate, Tata-Cornell Institute

Global Development Section

Contact

  • ljv9 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Risk management for smallholder farmers
  • Food-value chains
  • Entrepreneurship
Gisselle Vila Benites

Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow

Global Development Section

Contact

  • gv243 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Environmental remediation governance
  • Ethnic territories
  • Political ecologies of mining