Muhogo Bora celebrates the 2022 International Day of Rural Women

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The United Nations General Assembly declared every October 15, as the International Day of Rural Women. This day is dedicated to celebrating the achievements and contributions of millions of women living in remote, rural places towards rural...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Kelly Merchan honored with Cornell CALS communication award

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Kelly Merchán earned the 2022 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Core Value Staff Award for Communication in recognition of excellence in communication with faculty, staff, students and the public. The award, presented September 1...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Student Spotlight: Taylor Ferebee

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Taylor Ferebee is a doctoral candidate in computational biology from Hampton, Virginia. She attended Roanoke College for her bachelor’s and Clemson University for her master’s and now studies the implementation and redesign of mathematical...
  • Computational Biology
  • Climate Change
  • Crops
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Home gardening for life

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Chindavone (Chin) Sanlath is an environmental and social consultant at Earth Systems and a certified lead auditor in integrated management systems. She is currently a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow in the Department of Global Development at Cornell...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Can eDNA be used to assess fish species composition in a large lake?

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Biodiversity surveys may require the use of multiple types of sampling gear to maximize the efficiency of species detections, yet few studies have investigated how to optimally distribute effort among gear. In a recent paper by Andres and...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Natural Resources
  • Fish