Funding

Catalyzing Innovative Research for Impact We provide both short- and long-term funding, often in partnership with other organizations, for novel and sometimes high-risk, high-reward research. By reaching across the university…

Abdelkrim Lachgar

…engineering degree in Agronomy and a PhD in Soil, Water & Climate from the University of Minnesota, where his research focused on developing cost-effective decision-support tools to characterize soil spatial…

Partners

Partnering to Turn Knowledge Into Impact At Cornell Atkinson, we leverage our Innovation for Impact Fund to build partnerships with non-profits, companies, and government agencies to catalyze solutions for the…

Kendra Kintzi

…Social Equity in Southwest Asia’s Renewable Energy Transition From electricity protests in Jordan and Lebanon to the creation of renewable ‘smart’ cities in Saudi Arabia, the region of Southwest Asia…

Lara Roeven (Global Development)

The Impact of Biocultural-Heritage Conservation on Farmer-to-Farmer Seed Exchange and Social Inequality in the Peruvian Andes Advisor: Rachel Bezner Kerr Throughout her dissertation project she explores agrobiodiversity conservation, farmers’ seed…

Oppenheimer: Impartial Scientist or Advocate?

Monica Contestabile

…first social science editor at Nature Research. She has handled original research and review articles across the entire breadth of social sciences, and interdisciplinary articles integrating natural and social science…

Leah Valdes (Entomology)

Social Bees and Disease: Bumble Bee Sociality Affects the Distribution of Disease in Diverse Pollinator Communities Advisor: Scott McArt Bees provide essential pollination services to terrestrial ecosystems, therefore their decline…

Jesse Rodenbiker

…fish, which includes both domestic aquaculture and catch from distant water fishing (DWF) fleets. With global fisheries overfished at a rate of 85 percent of global fishing stocks, China’s role…

Amanda Rodewald

…conservation biology, participatory science, and social science to address conservation challenges in working landscapes within temperate and tropical regions. Prior to joining Cornell in 2013, Amanda spent 13 years as…