Yara Medawar joined the lab as a first year PhD student and an NRT Fellow. Yara received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Notre Dame University in Lebanon, and M.S. degree in Public Policy from UConn. Welcome, Yara!

Congratulations are due to Dr. Meijian Yang for the publication of two papers on the same day! “Water stress dominates the projected maize yield changes in Ethiopia” in Global and Planetary Changes (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104216 ) and  “Heat stress to jeopardize crop production in the US Corn Belt based on downscaled CMIP5 projections” in Agricultural Systems ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103746 )