Faculty Rachel Bezner Kerr's research is featured in the CALS Notes blog.
Faculty Tom Hirschl was interviewed about poverty amongst seniors on the program Senior Notebook, aired on both ABC and CBS. He also conducted an extension program on livable communities in Genesee County.
Faculty John Sipple was the keynote speaker at the North Country Symposium, featured on North Country Public Radio: North Country Schools Face Uncharted Ground.
He also submitted the op-ed piece "Mergers Aren't the Answer" to the Times Union.
Emeritus faculty J. Mayone Stycos was honored by the Population Association of America for his contribution to the development of the field of populations studies. More on this story here.
Congratulations to all the grad students who have been awarded fellowships this semester: Tim Gorman (Borlaug, SSR), Rebakah Daro Minarchek (Borlaug), Ian Bailey (CALS Land Grant), Emme Edmunds (David L. Boren), Alice Beban France (Reppy), Katie Rainwater (FLAS), Youjin Chung (ISS), Kasia Paprocki (SSR, Fulbright)
Mary Kritz: 'International Student Mobility and Tertiary Education Capacity in Africa' International Migration March 2013.
Wendy Wolford, et al, ed. Governing Global Land Deals: the Role of the State in the Rush for Land. Development and Change special issue March 2013.
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Lawrence Van De Valk
Senior Extension Associate
Larry is Executive Director of the Empire State Food and Agricultural Leadership Institute, or LEAD New York, a leadership development program for adult professionals in the food, agricultural and natural resource industries. Van De Valk is also a Senior Extension Associate in the Community and... Read Lawrence Van De Valk's full profile
Rebakah Daro Minarchek will be using her Borlaug Fellowship to return to Indonesia this fall. More here.
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Junior Jana Wilbricht is helping to improve medical communication to Hopi women about cervical cancer. Learn more about her project 
Phil McMichael: 'Food Sovereignty and the Global Hunger Games' at Ithaca College. He also made a presentation to a Brooklyn College Symposium on "The Future of Food,' on Earth Day.
Tom Hirschl gave presentations on international and local poverty trends to two groups working with Cornell Cooperative Extension. First, to a group of Schuyler County legislators and food pantry managers, and second to a network of community leaders in Elmira, NY. In both talks Tom emphasized the high probability that poverty rates will be increasing over the medium term, and advised communities to be on proactive in developing mechanisms and institutions to fight poverty. Tom was interviewed by a local television station (WENY), and by the Elmira Star Gazette.
Banner photos provided by J.M. Stycos, M.J. Pfeffer, R. Howe, C. Lentz, M. Schneider.
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2013 Seminars and Other Events
Institute for Social Sciences Summer Institute on Contested Landscapes, Cornell University, May 13-17, 2013. See http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/ for details.
Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman was promoted to Senior Extension Associate. She will provide leadership for the continued development and implementation of the CALS NYS Internship Program.
Mary Jo Dudley was quoted in the Wall Street Journal about the Cornell Farmworkers Program's involvement with the Law School on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Stephen Albonesi '11 returned to speak about his honors project to current undergrads: "I can't emphasize enough how doing an honors thesis has helped me in my academic and career paths."
Julie Zimmerman '97 was promoted to full professor in the Department of Community and Leadership Development at the University of Kentucky. She was also nominated for the 2013 Distinguished Scholarly Publication award given by the ASA's History of Sociology Section. The award "honors sociologists who have made significant contributions to the History of Sociology by writing books or articles on the 'cutting edge' of sociological inquiry."