Alum, professor empowers Indigenous communities

Read the full story by Caitlin Hayes in the Cornell Chronicle.

“I think there’s a lot of opportunity for Native students to excel, as they start building these formal trainings through the institution and integrate it with some of their experiential knowledge, cultural teachings and histories,” said Michael Charles ’16, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and now assistant professor in biological and environmental engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).

“The more we can invite them to bring their full minds and own knowledge systems, the more interesting new research we’re going to see.”