Emily Baker (Global Development)

…of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda. Diversified agroforestry and home garden systems have gendered implications for smallholder social and ecological resilience, livelihoods, and food security. Working…

Juliet Lu

…Chinese firms that have moved into planting and processing across the region. However, while most environmental and social justice advocacy groups have corporate engagement strategies for targeting established market firms,…

Seeking Synergistic Opportunities in the Confluence of Soil Health and Urban Agriculture in Circular Bionutrient Systems

…The convening will enable the group to formulate a strategy to advance the urban and peri-urban circular bionutrient economy by building on the group’s collective experience and ideas. The convening…

Ethan Flanagan (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)

…current electrolyzers rely on expensive platinum-group metal catalysts. Anion-exchange membranes (AEM) provide a cost-effective alternative but face challenges in ionic conductivity and alkaline stability. This project builds on a newly…

Fatema Sumar

…compacts to reduce poverty through economic growth globally. She managed MCC’s technical and regional divisions working on infrastructure, the environment and climate change, the private sector, gender and social inclusion,…

Michael Vega

…microbial communities influence environmental problems such as water quality and climate change. At Cornell Atkinson, he will study how to improve rice farming sustainability through lenses of environmental engineering, geochemistry,…

Quang Pham (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

…some species, like the desert-dwelling plains spadefoot toad (Spea bombifrons), thrive in arid habitats by evolving adaptive water-conserving strategies. Aquaporins (AQPs), water-channel proteins with diverse, tissue-specific roles, are hypothesized to…

Science Is Easy to Make Fun of and Hard to Live Without

Improved Flood Prediction With Better Hydraulic Simulation

…DEP, watershed managers, conservationists, and municipal water providers to accurately depict hydroclimatic trends, tree-specific water uptake data, and other measures of ecosystem health. Investigators: Taryn Bauerle, Todd Walter, Joe Guinness…

Jintong Gao

…Synergetic Green Hydrogen and Clean Water Production From Seawater and Natural Sunlight Jintong received his Ph.D. in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in December 2023….