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…

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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…

Eve Saltman

…senior leadership team’s Strategy Council. She is the executive sponsor of GoPro’s SHERO employee resource group for women and is a recognized mentor and leader of highly engaged and high-performing…

Raina Plowright

…public health practice and meaningful policy. Plowright’s holistic and multi-level approach is best exemplified by the Bat One Health Research Group, for which she serves as Principal Investigator. Her systematic…

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Edward Buckler

…and archaeology. His group’s research uses genomic, computational, and field approaches to dissect complex traits and accelerate breeding in maize, sorghum, cassava, and a wide range of other crops. While…

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…