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View ArticlePlantationocene conference to examine plantations’ legacies
In a virtual conference on April 15–16, scholars, activists and practitioners from around the world will meet to explore plantations’ deep-rooted legacies, including racial inequality, dispossession...
View ArticleAtmospheric travel: Scientists find microplastic everywhere
By sea or by land, microscopic shards of plastic are more ubiquitous than science had known, according to a new study led by researchers at Cornell and Utah State University.
View ArticleAward recipient builds Migrations community at Cornell
Migrations postdoctoral fellow Eleanor Paynter received the International Studies Association’s 2021 Lynne Rienner Publishers Award for Best Dissertation in Human Rights. Since arriving at Cornell last...
View ArticleRoundtable to track authoritarian trends across Southeast Asia
In Authoritarianism and Democratic Backsliding in Southeast Asia – a virtual roundtable on April 15 at 8:00 p.m. ET – panelists will discuss how rising authoritarianism is reshaping politics in...
View Article‘Our Changing Menu’: Warming climate serves up meal remake
“Our Changing Menu,” a new book from Cornell University Press, explains how our warming world affects crops and how it soon will alter your dinner plate.
View ArticleStudy: Ag policy in India needs to account for domestic workload
Women’s increased agricultural labor during harvest season, in addition to domestic house care, often comes at the cost of their health, according to new research from the Tata-Cornell Institute for...
View ArticleRachel Bezner Kerr: Taking a farmer-led approach to food justice
A collaborative research program led by Rachel Bezner Kerr has united agricultural communities across Malawi and Tanzania — culminating in a nonprofit with 10,000 members, several farmer-led training...
View ArticleFear year: Pandemic politics made us anxious, but hardly safer
Pandemic politics fostered existential anxiety globally that has exacted a material and mental toll while dodging difficult moral dilemmas, according to Cornell research.
View ArticleProduce Safety Alliance offers training in new languages
Recognizing that produce is grown and harvested by farmers of many different backgrounds, the Cornell Produce Safety Alliance has expanded to include education and training for Spanish, Chinese and...
View ArticleNew Conversations Project releases social dialogue report
A year-long mapping exercise, utilizing COVID-19 as a “stress test,” has resulted in 10 country-specific reports on the state of worker organizing, bargaining and social dialogue in garment-producing...
View ArticleGroups’ pandemic responses to nations often at odds
International organizations have failed to help the world’s governments manage competing objectives as they try to cope with the havoc caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new Cornell research.
View ArticleEarth Day forum: Barrett maps food systems past mid-century
To feed the world in a healthy, sustainable way, nations need to reorient today’s agri-food systems for distant generations, said Chris Barrett at an Earth Day forum.
View ArticleNobel laureate Sen to lecture on protecting democracy
Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will give the annual Bartels World Affairs Lecture on May 5.
View ArticleBorlaug Global Rust Initiative announces 2021 wheat science awards
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announced its 2021 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Early Career and Mentor awardees honoring wheat scientists working to protect food security around the world.
View ArticleSarah Evanega: Using science communication to combat misperceptions
As a plant biologist, science communicator and director of the Cornell Alliance for Science, Evanega promotes evidence-informed decision making in agriculture.
View ArticlePioneering an inclusive approach to priority setting in crop improvement
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement provides global thought leadership on how plant breeders can challenge their assumptions, perform engaged research and prioritize their impact...
View ArticleHuman behavior must be factored into climate change analyses
A new Cornell-led study examines how temperature affects fishing behavior and catches among inland fisher households in Cambodia, with important implications for understanding climate change.
View ArticleAfricana Library exhibit explores MLK’s labor activism
Exhibit features MLK's ties to labor movement
View ArticleUgandan breeders use genomic selection to boost health and satisfy customers
Ugandan plant breeders with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement are using genomic selection to increase micronutrients and decrease cooking time in common beans.
View ArticleFaculty Recognized at Kaplan Fellows for Service-Learning Work
The Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship recognizes faculty members who have had a significant impact on undergraduate, professional or graduate education at Cornell by involving their...
View ArticleInternational relations minor sets graduates on global paths
The Einaudi Center's international relations minor prepares graduates for internationally minded careers, both abroad and in the United States.
View ArticleStudents capture Ithaca civil leaders’ oral histories in new book
The book, “13 Leaders: Stories of Community Building for Systemic Change,” published by Cornell students, honors the journeys and life’s work of 13 Cornell Civic Leader Fellows.
View ArticleBartels lecturer speaks out on rising threats to democracy
"Home may have become a dangerous place for democracy to flourish now," said Nobel prize–winning economist Amartya Sen, this year’s Bartels World Affairs Fellow. His May 5 lecture was hosted by the...
View ArticleParfait Eloundou-Enyegue: Leading the global conversation on population and...
In his native country, Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue founded a long-term research project to boost and leverage Cameroon’s human capital.
View ArticleLaw clinic helped pave way for Malawi’s death penalty ban
Through the Malawi Resentencing Project, the International Human Rights Clinic and Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide have helped dozens of death row prisoners win reduced sentences or...
View ArticleNew global development major unites classroom, field training
A new undergraduate major in Global Development opens pathways for Cornell students to engage in critical scholarship and global field experiences while studying some of the most urgent challenges...
View ArticleSupporting undocumented students key to ‘… any person … any study’
Cornell was founded on the principle of “… any person … any study,” and today more than ever, that means celebrating students of all lived experiences and identities – including undocumented students.
View ArticleYou Can Make it Happen: Spring 2021
You Can Make it Happen: global development fellows, Asian summer gardens and world-changing design research.
View ArticleSix grants support joint research in China through pandemic
The Cornell China Center has announced six new grant awards, totaling $140,000, to support research by Cornell faculty teams partnering with researchers in China.
View ArticleWeill Cornell study: New species are all around us
About 12,000 bacteria and viruses collected in a sampling from public transit systems and hospitals around the world from 2015 to 2017 had never before been identified, according to a study led by...
View ArticleOnline game replicates frustrations of research and disability
With a grant from the Society for the Humanities, Julia Chang has developed an online game with an undergrad computer science researcher, based on her research on disability in modern Spain. The game...
View ArticleHotel School, Peking University green-lighted to launch dual-degree program
Cornell has announced its approval for an international dual-degree program between the School of Hotel Administration, in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and China’s Guanghua School of...
View ArticleTIAA gift champions Dyson program addressing emerging markets
The transformative gift establishes the Clifton R. Wharton Jr. Program of Global Engagement endowed fund, which supports the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management's SMART program.
View ArticleNew grad transformed lives with palazzo pants
Cornell women's volleyball's Alena Madar '21 used palazzo pants to transform the lives of tribal women in India.
View ArticleStudy tracks food’s value from farm to plate globally
A team of researchers, led by Dyson professors Chris Barrett and Miguel Gómez, has developed the “Global Food Dollar” method, which distributes the consumer’s net purchasing dollar across all farm and...
View ArticleGift endows, names Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
The major gift from the Brooks family, whose Cornell roots span three generations, provides an early boost to help the university’s newest school achieve world-class excellence.
View ArticleStaff, faculty win SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence
Twenty faculty and professional staff members in four of Cornell’s state contract colleges have been selected for the 2020–21 State University of New York Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.
View ArticleAstronomers seek gravitational waves with renewed NSF grant
The funding will enable astronomy researchers at the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves consortium to continue their search for five more years.
View ArticleAAP explores ‘How will we live together?’ at Venice Biennale
The College of Architecture, Art and Planning is represented in several pavilions and events at the prestigious, six-month exhibition, which seeks “a new spatial contract.”
View ArticleILR's Harry Katz tabbed to lead international association
A focus on Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe will be part of Professor Harry Katz’s term as president of a global labor and employment relations organization.
View ArticleInternational development scholar Phil McMichael retires
Phil McMichael, whose decades of research into equitable, sustainable, and just food systems reshaped development thinking, will become emeritus professor of global development on July 1.
View ArticleILR perspective informing reform in India
Visiting faculty member Dr. Ramaswami "Balu" Balasubramaniam applies his reform work in India to his teaching at ILR.
View ArticleSatellite monitoring documents cultural heritage at risk
Cornell researchers are using satellite imagery to protect endangered and damaged cultural heritage in the South Caucasus, where an ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has raged for decades.
View ArticleLibrary launches future with FOLIO
Cornell University Library pioneers in adapting open source system, FOLIO.
View ArticleVaccine acceptance higher in developing nations than U.S.
Personal protection against COVID-19 was the main reason given for vaccine acceptance among respondents in low- and middle-income countries, and concern about side effects was the most common reason...
View ArticleThe post-COVID future of the apparel industry
A new paper from ILR’s New Conversation Project differentiates between apparel industry changes brought on by COVID-19 and those that result from the industry’s natural trajectory.
View ArticleNew insights on flowering could boost cassava crops
Two new publications examining cassava flowering reveal insights into the genetic and environmental factors underpinning one of the world’s most critical food security crops.
View ArticleIndian women’s nutrition suffered during COVID-19 lockdown
The 2020 nationwide lockdown India imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions that negatively impacted women’s nutrition, according to a new study from the Tata-Cornell Institute...
View ArticleTouted as clean, ‘blue’ hydrogen may be worse than gas or coal
‘Blue hydrogen – made by using methane in natural gas – is lauded a clean, Cornell and Stanford researchers believe it may harm the climate more than burning fossil fuel.
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