Our ability to understand migrations and address real-world migration challenges is dramatically improved by working together, as evidenced by this panel's discussion, recorded on June 5, 2020, as part of Cornell's virtual reunion weekend.

Electronic food vouchers provided young Rohingya children in Bangladeshi refugee camps with better health and nutrition than direct food assistance.

Ecologist and conservation biologist Amanda Rodewald studies birds and the ecosystems on which they depend, looking for the best outcomes for people and the planet. This approach turned her attention to coffee farms.

Cornell researchers have sequenced and analyzed the genome of a single-celled alga that belongs to the closest lineage to terrestrial plants and provides many clues to how aquatic plants first colonized land.

Research by Kenneth Rosenberg, senior research associate in the Lab of Ornithology, finds that North America had a net loss in three billion birds since 1970.

Mary Jo Dudley, an expert in farmworker issues, talks about how the pandemic has underlined the importance of farmworkers, who are crucial to maintaining the country’s food supply.

“We have to dispel such fears and the RBI has to stand ready to stabilize fluctuations in the Indian rupee,” says Kaushik Basu, professor of economics and policy.

A new study on bees, plants, and landscapes in upstate New York sheds light on how bee pathogens spread, offering possible clues for what farmers could do to improve bee health.

“The coolest thing we’ve learned in the past few years [is that] three to four billion birds migrate over the U.S. each spring and fall, respectively,” says Andrew Farnsworth, research associate in the Lab of Ornithology.

“My guess is it would take several years before it actually showed up” says assistant professor of entomology Scott McArt about the murder hornet.