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Provided Sarah Evanega (center), director of the Cornell Alliance for Science, Ph.D. 09, works with Bt eggplant farmers in Bangladesh. Sarah Evanega wins 2021 Borlaug CAST Communication Award May 11, 2021 Sarah Evanega, Ph.D. ’09, director of the Cornell Alliance for Science, has been named the 2021 Borlaug CAST Communication Award winner. The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) award recognizes outstanding achievement in the advancement of science in the publi...

Sarah Evanega Announced as 2021 Borlaug CAST Communication Award Winner Share Article The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) announced that the 2021 Borlaug CAST Communication Award goes to Sarah Evanega. Dr. Evanega has been described as a pioneer, international leader, and icon of young science communication professionals. AMES, Iowa (PRWEB) May 11, 2021 The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CA...

Sarah Evanega works in a challenging space. No, not her pandemic home office or even her car to free up needed internet bandwidth for her three young children’s remote schoolwork. Those are minor compared to a career spent depolarizing and demystifying issues around genetic engineering, especially given the disconnect between scientific consensus on its safety and lingering public skepticism. As founder and director of the Cornell Alliance for Science, a global communications initiative in th...

Sarah is a Research Professor in the Department of Global Development with a joint appointment in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. She serves as the founding Director of the Cornell Alliance for Science—a global communications effort that promotes evidence-informed decision-making across a range of science issues. She teaches courses on agricultural biotechnology at the graduate and undergraduate level and is part of an interdisci...