2026 Awards

“Plants, pollinators and people: Community engagement to create pollinator habitat and promote public and ecosystem health” Katherine Dickin

Abstract: Pollinator pathways are native plant corridors that support the biodiversity of native pollinators, sustain food systems, and provide rewarding, educational opportunities for community engagement with nature that benefit public health. Tompkins Pollinator Pathway partners with individuals, schools, churches, government and community organizations to provide such opportunities and map pollinator habitats throughout the county. We propose research to understand barriers and facilitators of participation and inform efforts to expand community outreach and pollinator habitat to create a more inclusive network. Monitoring these strategies will inform continued local conservation efforts, and lessons learned will be shared with other communities and organizations.

“Alternatives to Nuclear Deterrence: Is Estonia Defensible?” Matthew Evangelista

Abstract: In the wake of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the risk of nuclear war has returned to Europe. Particularly vulnerable is Estonia, a NATO member that borders Russia. The frontier town of Narva is susceptible to Russian infiltration or invasion, in part because its residents are 88 percent ethnic Russian and half of them lack Estonian citizenship. NATO’s strategy to defend Estonia depends on the threat of escalation to nuclear war. This study explores alternatives to the policy of “extended nuclear deterrence” and the catastrophic consequences of its failure. It assesses prospects for conventional military defense and nonviolent civilian-based resistance.

“Spray Records from Field to Office with the TracCropsTM SprayCard” Juliet Carroll and Yu Jiang

Abstract: Everyone eats and wants safe and healthy food. Producers use pesticides to keep their crops healthy. Spray records are required by law. Spray reports are required by buyers and certifiers. Trac Software generates appropriate forms needed for agencies like US EPA and reports for buyers like Motts or certifiers like GlobalGAP. Carroll and Jiang are updating Trac into the TracCropsTM platform, designing a SprayCard that syncs spray data records. The producer creates the SprayCard, runs it, and simply taps “Finish Spray” to log the data and generate the EPA Worker Protection form – keeping workers safe, crops healthy, and buyers informed.

2025 Awards

• “Sharing and Archiving Voices of Cornell’s Prison Education Program” Judith Appleton and Maddie Reynolds
• “The Effects of Climate Change on Wildflowers: Interpreting the Impact for Garden Visitors” David Weinstein
• “The FoodKeeper: The Review and Revision of a Dynamic Food Database” Robert B. Gravani
• “Enhancement of Databases of Food Ingredients and Plant-based Products Impacted by Climate Change” Michael P. Hoffmann
• “Improving Textbooks for Technical Apparel Designers: Education to Support Sustainable Clothing Design” Susan P. Ashdown
• “Distinguishing Healthy Aging from Mild Cognitive Impairment: Transition from Research to Practice” Barbara Lust

2024 Awards

• “Sharing and Archiving Voices of Cornell’s Prison Education Program” Judith Appleton
•  “Re-evaluating drought stress effects on fruit development at a new -me scale” Alan Lakso
•  “Correcting predictive models of macroalgal (seaweed) biomass to support Maine’s climate action plan”  Robin Hadlock Seeley
•  “The Prospective Associations of Social Relations, Life Events and Changes, and Mental Health to Study Recruitment and Attrition” Elaine Wethington

2023 Awards

• “A Social Media Campaign to Help Tell the Climate Change Story Using Food” Mike Hoffmann
• “Fighting climate change in Maine: correcting two errors in Maine’s estimates of salt marshes available as ‘blue carbon’ ” Robin Hadlock Seeley

2022 Awards

• “George Masa: Advocate, Explorer, and Artist” Janet McCue
• “Textbook on the Biology of Infectious Disease” Michael Milgroom
• “Maine’s rockweed forest: documenting and communicating impacts of commercial harvest” Robin Hadlock Seeley

2021 Awards

• “Genotypes Elite Dairy Cows” Ron Butler
• “Environmental Economic Eval of Geo and Solar in Tompkins County” John Duxbury
• “Database of Food Ingredients Impacted by Climate Change” Mike Hoffmann

2020 Awards

• “Movie production ‘Echoes of the Empire–Beyond Genghis Kahn’ ” Robert Lieberman
• “Innovtive Eductional Approach for Technical Apparel Designers: Providing Tools for Sustainable Clothing Design” Susan Ashdown
• “Research Genetic Attributes of High Yield Dairy (Elite) Cows” Ron Butler
• “Climate Change and Food: Improving Education and Engagement” Carrie Koplinka-Loehr

2019 Awards

• “A Contribution to the Welfare of Society” Albert Sievers
• “Adaptation to Global Warming” Carrie Koplinka-Loehr
• “Meaning and Power” Sally McConnell-Ginet
• “Wind-Blown San and Dune Evolution” Jim Jenkins
• “Biodiversity of African Fish/Impact” Carl Hopkins
• “Biological Approaches to Sustainable Soil Systems” Norm Uphoff
• “Improving Human Health” Joseph Laquatra
• “Ridge Nepal Integrated Women’s Cooperative Collaboration Project: Livelihoods, Capacity-building and Infrastructural Support” Kath March
• “Contrasting Language is Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Aging” Barbara Lust

2018 Awards

• “Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Aging” Barbara Lust
• “Collaborative Ethnolography & triakonta design/build of a community center for the Srijana Women’s Agricultural Cooperative Society” Kath March
• “Creativity Examine: Inquiry into the Bais of Innovation in Science” Douglas McGregor
• “Continued work on Core Curriculum Development teams to Provide Ongoing Professional Development” David Henderson 

2017 Awards

• “Enhancing the World’s Food Supply” Peter Davies
• “Continued work on Core Curriculum Development teams to Provide Ongoing Professional Development” David Henderson
• “Impact of a Local Minimum Wage Increase on Induced Employment” Matthew Drennan
• “Rural Development, ICT and Engaged Learning” Roy Colle
• “Training to Facilitate Appropriate Responses to Climate Change by Asian Rice Farmers” Randolph Barker
• “Sustainable Apparel by DESIGN: Cases in Social Entrepreneurship” Suzanne Loker

2016 Awards

• “Collaboration Evaluation and Publication of Seville, Spain Cornell Study Abroad Program” Davydd Greenwood
• “Continued work on Core Curriculum Development teams to Provide Ongoing Professional Development” David Henderson 
• “Support to Document Process of Rehabilitation and Transformation Undergone in Prison by Individuals Convicted of Murder as Adolescents” James Garbarino
• “Verifying that GPS-based Total Electron Content Measurements Can be Used to Predict Earthquakes” Mike Kelley
• “Medicine and Modernity in the 19th Century Conference” Joan Brumberg

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