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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 public policy arena in the agricultural, environmental or food sectors.
“The world is facing numerous grave challenges that can benefit from scientific solutions,” said Evanega, a research professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ (CALS) Department of Global Development with a joint appointment in the School of Integrative Plant Science and an adjunct faculty position at the Boyce Thompson Institute. “I’m deeply gratified that CAST has recognized the work of the All
Sarah Evanega Announced as 2021 Borlaug CAST Communication Award Winner
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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 (CAST) announced that the 2021 Borlaug CAST Communication Award goes to Sarah Evanega, research professor in the Department of Global Development with a joint appointment in the School of Integrative Plant Science in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Evanega is an adjunct faculty member at the Boyce Thompson Institute. Dr. Evanega also serves as the founding director of the Cornell Alliance for Science a global communications effort that promotes evidence-informed decision-
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 the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Evanega faces down misperceptions, myths and misinformation about GMOs or to use the scientific term, agricultural biotechnology. Now she’s also taking on the conspiracy theories and disinformation campaigns that swirl around the pandemic, vaccines, climate change and synthetic biology.
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 interdisciplinary team that developed a massive open online course (MOOC) on the science and politics of GMOs on Cornell’s EdX platform. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Boyce Thompson Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute. Sarah was instrumental in launching the CALS initiative, AWARE (Advancing Women in Agriculture through Research and Education) which promotes women in agriculture.