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Olivia M. Hall, Ph.D.

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Doctoral Dissertation

National & Regional Publications

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Smithsonian

  • These Eerie Portraits Capture Endangered and Extinct Animals in a Film that Is Also Vanishing
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Cayuga Health

  • Shoulder replacement surgery (5/12/2025)
  • Preventing and treating hypertension (4/21/2025)
  • How chemotherapy and a dedicated care team take on colorectal cancer (4/14/2025)
  • Regular colon cancer screenings can save a life (3/17/2025)
  • How doctors help women reduce their heart disease risk (2/17/2025)
  • Congestive heart failure (2/10/2025)
  • Prevent and manage common knee pain (1/27/2025)
  • UTIs are common and treatable (1/21/2025)
  • Kidney stones: What to know (1/6/2025)
  • Cayuga Health Laboratory Services points the way to personalized breast cancer treatment (12/2/2024)
  • Keeping family safe from poisoning accidents during the holiday season (11/25/2024)
  • Ensure a healthy pregnancy with prenatal testing (11/11/2024)
  • Breast cancer treatment at Cayuga Health (11/4/2024)
  • Living with mild cognitive impairment (9/3/2024)
  • Treatment options for colorectal cancer (3/25/2024)
  • Prevent Skin Cancer and Find It Early
  • Living with Fatty Liver Disease

Everyday Health

  • FDA Requires Opioid Labels to Include Information on Naloxone
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Fresh Cup

  • Copper Horse Coffee: Six Months to Win
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Vegetarian Times

  • Hello Nano: Nanobreweries
  • Winter’s Bounty: Winter CSAs
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Edible Finger Lakes

  • Cornell Chicken: A Central New York Classic
  • Better Brew: Finger Lakes Beer
  • Deep Roots: Harris Seed Company
  • Good Flavors, Good Mind: Iroquois White Corn Project
  • Daring Drake Farm and Blackduck Cidery
  • Mackenzie Childs: Hand-Crafted Charm
  • Seven Generations on Seneca Lake: Fulkerson Winery
  • New York Breweries
  • Food Retailer Local Hero: The Piggery

Life in the Finger Lakes

  • Boats, Banjos and Bachelor Parties: Grumman boats
  • Hog Wild: The Piggery
  • Chip off the Old Block: Bostwick Auctions
  • Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth: Chocolate
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AAA Member Connection

  • The Great Outdoors in the Adirondacks
  • Lights on the Lake
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Central New York Magazine

  • Sold on Auctions
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Mountain Home

  • Ice cream in Ithaca
  • Lakeside real estate in Watkins Glen
  • The Copper Oven
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Central NY Woman

  • Say Cheese: Lively Run Goat Dairy
  • Berry Easy Pickings: Strawberry Fields Skaneateles
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Visit Ithaca (Convention and Visitor's Bureau)

  • Family Staycation in Ithaca
  • Black Owned Businesses in Ithaca
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Ithaca Journal

  • Grainful: Feeling Their Oats
  • Glycobia: Incubating a New Business at Cornell
  • Applied Pulsed Power’s Switches Improve Capacity, Speed in Medical and Other Technologies
  • High Intensity, High Pay-Off: Where to Burn Calories Fast in Ithaca
  • Canaan Institute Offers Year-Round Opportunities to Exercise
  • Seraph Robotics: Ithaca Firm Aims to Print Replacement Body Parts
  • Higher Learning: East Hill Flying Club
  • IAUA: Ultimate in Atmosphere
  • Outrigger Canoe Club
  • Ithaca Figure Skating Association
  • Cayuga Trails Club Explores and Preserves Region’s Hiking Areas
  • Local Athletes Hope to Make a Splash with Underwater Hockey
  • Cayuga Nordic Ski Clubs Attracts All Abilities, Styles
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Tompkins Weekly

  • Jen Waldman: Hangar Names New Artistic Director
  • Celebration Spotlights Birds on the Move
  • Ithacans Accept Tough Turtle Challenge
  • New Vine Media: Recording Studio Struggles to Survive
  • Weightlifters Pumped for Competition
  • Addressing Challenges for LGBT Elders
  • Cold Competition Puts Spotlight on Snowmen
  • The Piggery: Butchers Share Techniques of the Trade
  • Low-Income Families Learning to Cook
  • PEEPS: Environmental Ambassadors in Training
  • Gladius Fights Brings MMA to Ithaca
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Ithaca Times

  • Ithaca’s Team Bombsquad Finding Footing on National MMA Scene
  • Autistic Aspirations: Five-Mile Walk Launches New Non-Profit
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MMA Weekly

  • Nothing Lost in Translation: Dagestan Native Shahbulat Shamhalaev Making His Way in Bellator
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Sherdog

  • Brothers in Arms: The Leones – Nitro & Glycerin
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Cornell University

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Einhorn Center for Community Engagement

  • Nine students receive SUNY Chancellor’s Awards (5/14/2025)
  • JFK Award winner Farzan Hussainzada finds purpose in supporting immigrant communities (4/11/2025)
  • Levy Award winner leads team co-designing school playgrounds with Cornell and elementary students (4/8/2025)
  • Kaplan Fellowship recognizes Ahmann’s community-engaged work for environmental justice (3/19/2025)
  • Engaged Opportunity Grants Fuel Community-Engaged Learning for Students (3/17/2025)
  • Cornell faculty honored for community-engaged innovation (3/7/2025)
  • New eCornell courses bring best practices of community-engaged learning to Cornell and beyond (2/13/2025)
  • STEP expands local high school students’ horizons (8/13/2024)
  • Leadership symposium inspires women to build community (7/31/2024) 
  • Art Beyond Cornell exhibition features works by incarcerated youth (5/29/2024)
  • Matias awarded for community-engaged hiring transparency project (5/13/2024)
  • JFK Award recipient merges passions for medicine and public service (4/22/2024)
  • Robinson-Appel Award recipients serve diverse local populations (4/19/2024)
  • Maribel Garcia awardee honored for conservation efforts in Central Africa (4/17/2024)
  • Community Work-Study Program celebrates 50 years (3/21/2024)
  • New program trains students to facilitate community-engaged learning courses (2/13/2024)

Baker Institute for Animal Health

  • Virologist builds on Baker Institute’s 75-year groundbreaking history (4/11/2025)
  • History of the Feline Health Center (10/31/2024)
  • Study proves transfer of feline coronavirus between domestic and wild cats (9/10/2024)
  • Drug trial offering new hope for dogs with oral cancer (2/2/2024)
  • Riney Canine Health Center Funded research 2022-2023 (6/2023)
  • Baker Institute New Faculty (8/2022)
  • Are Raw Cat Foods Safe? (8/2022)
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College of Veterinary Medicine

  • Cornell Equine advancing research, training and community for horse health (3/10/2025)
  • Beloved alumnus ‘Dr. K’ inspires scholarship donations to CVM (7/25/2024)
  • Sandra Atlas Bass Endowment advances cancer research through seed grants (7/23/2024)
  • Equine seminar: Equine Pasture Management (7/10/2024)
  • 3D-printed bone models help save shih tzu’s leg from amputation (7/8/2024)
  • CVM hosts inaugural conference on AI in veterinary medicine (5/2/2024)
  • Judy Appleton, Ph.D. Early Career Excellence in Research Award supports inaugural recipient’s work in cancer biology (4/25/2024)
  • Cornell and Ugandan researchers reveal role of ticks in African swine fever transmission (4/23/2024)
  • Cornell’s Duffield Institute takes big steps forward to understand animal behavior (4/22/2024)
  • Study points to inbreeding as a factor in Thoroughbred pregnancy losses (2/22/2024)
  • Reducing the risks of zoonotic disease transmission through responsible cat ownership (12/20/2023)
  • Diets limiting ingredients, not allergens, improve dog GI issues (12/14/2023)
  • Cornell’s M.P.H. Program Launches Two New Concentrations for Fall 2024 (11/2023)
  • Training Technicians in Shelter Medicine
  • Are We Tracking Food Insecurity Correctly?
  • Pandemic Causes Increase in Backyard Food Use, Hunting in New York
  • Gender Disparities in Veterinary Internships
  • Equine Seminar: Obesity and Laminitis
  • Equine Seminar: Lyme Disease in Horses
  • Equine Seminar: Pre-purchase Considerations
  • Bats and the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Equine Seminar: Vision
  • Cardiopulmonary Bootcamp 2023
  • CVM Open House 2023
  • Equine Seminar: Equine Anesthesia
  • Labrador’s Liver Repaired by Minimally Invasive Treatment
  • Education and Engagement: The Waller Brothers
  • First Known Elbow Replacement in Pet Pig
  • Dr. Doug Antczak Attends Ascot Horse Races with the Royals
  • National Task Force Announces Framework for Public Health Programs
  • Produce Prescription Grant Program
  • Collaborative Care Gets Hunter Ready to Jump Again
  • Cornell Veterinary Medicine Launches Academy for Educators
  • Cancer Symposium Fosters Collaboration across Cornell
  • Profile: Prof. Nicole Buote
  • Southside Healthy Pet Clinic Perseveres through Pandemic
  • PetSmart Charities® grant Supports Access to Veterinary Care
  • Love for Cats Sparks Scholarship for Feline Health
  • Cornell’s Small Animal Community Practice Garners Rare Accreditation
  • Cornell LVT Has Westminster Hopes on the Horizon
  • Irma Fernandez Wins Award from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Awards Honor Exceptional Microbiology and Immunology Research
  • Dr. Elaine Claffey Joins Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists Team
  • Profile of Elvina Yau, DVM student
  • Grassroots Scholarships
  • Students around the Globe
  • College Alumnae Volunteer to Help the Next Generation of Women
  • Engaged Cornell Grant Enables Collaborations with Jane Goodall Instit.
  • Leadership Snapshots
  • Sweet Science: Outreach Program Gets Grad Students in Classrooms
  • Dr. Marina Tejada Gives Them Shelter 
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Feed the Future - Innovation Lab for Food Safety

  • Giving Voice to Citizen Scientists on Household Food Safety in Nigeria (6/28/2024)
  • Workshops Strengthen Food Safety Capacity among Nepalese Growers and Extension Workers (3/18/2024)
  • Surveys of Produce Growers and Vendors in Cambodia (12/14/2023)
  • Food Systems in Transition: Food Loss and Waste
  • Detecting Food-Borne Pathogens in Dairy 
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Zweig Memorial Fund for Equine Research

  • EquiCenter: Healing with Horses
  • Cornell Radiologist Creates New Brain Atlases for Horses
  • Addressing Joint Issues through Mitochondria
  • Powers Combined: Cornell Ph.D./D.V.M.s
  • Cornell Scientists Help Reduce Racetrack Fatalities
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Operations Research & Information Engineering

  • Undergraduate research initiative opens doors
  • Mark Lewis featured in Who Is a Scientist?
  • Profile: Sam Gutekunst
  • ORIE at Cornell Tech
  • Google’s Search for Talent Leads to ORIE
  • ORIE Alumni at Lyft
  • Profile of Brittany Stenekes, ORIE student and hurdler
  • Prison Teaching: ORIE Students Help Others Grow and Find Success
  • A Big Day for ORIE’s Pender
  • Brenda Dietrich Brings Hands-on Approach to ORIE
  • Day-Long Seminar Honors Peter Jackson
  • Jim Dai Receives ACM’s Sigmetrics Achievement Award
  • Kim Chuan Toh to Receive Prize from INFORMS Optimization Society
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Systems Engineering

  • Faisal Alkaabneh: Using a Systems Approach Towards a Better Planet
  • Profile of Stephen McCarthy, Army Captain and Student
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Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

  • Laura Jones-Wilson: From Cornell to Nasa to an Icy Moon of Jupiter
  • Profile of Charlie Mills, CEO of Medline Industries
  • Profile of Lauren Stulgis, Director of Student Projects Teams

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • ECE Grows with Cornell Tech
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Cornell Engineering

  • Cornell Cup engineers, Afghan Dreamers collab on astromech droid

  • First in Family: Finding Success as a First-Generation Student
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Human Ecology

  • Amy Riolo: A Taste for Life
  • Ziebarth Receives Vernon Memorial Award
  • Laura Stokes: Pacify & Telemedicine
  • Julie Salles Schaffer: Design Gift
  • New Air Quality Research to Impact Next Generation
  • Mental Health Boosted Through Meditation Program
  • Fashion Business
  • Nannette Nocon: By the Numbers
  • Caroline Donelan: Cool and Comfortable
  • A Family Affair: Sloan Hosts Its Inaugural Visit Day
  • Growing Leadership: CHE’s Urban Semester Program Turns 25
  • Engaged Learning: Faculty Receive Grants
  • Divya Gugnani Launches Wander Beauty, Her Fourth Business
  • Eating Smart: Diane Robinson Knapp Focuses on Nutrition
  • Gogi Gupta: Chart Toppers
  • Growth Opportunity: Nancy Wells Lab
  • Hyuncheol Kim: The Social Doctor
  • Training Day: Camp Bristol Hills
  • Tanni Wu: Bringing Chic to China
  • Smarter Phones, Smarter Solutions

Cornell Chronicle

  • Veterinary Students’ AR App Sparks New Levels of Learning
  • New Test Measure Men’s Fertility
  • Chow Hounds: Dog Food Trials Soothe Gastrointestinal Illness
  • Celebrating Kay Obendorf’s 50-Year Fiber Science Legacy
  • Conference Shares Latest Youth Development Research
  • Online Course Brings Self-Injury to the Surface
  • 4-H Teens Get a Taste for College at Career Explorations
  • Cornell Program Marks 20 Years of Immersive Experience
  • Relax! Slip on an Electric Vest to Knead away Stress
  • Undergrads go to Camp and Study Teen Transitions
  • Exhibit Showcases Traditional Chinese Dress
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School of Hotel Administration

  • NSMH: A Dream of Belonging Fulfilled
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Ezra

  •  Cornell in NYC: A Stronger, More Holistic Impact
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Cornell Alumni Magazine

  • Profile of Lucas Kovalcik, rock climbing entrepreneur
  • Profile of Audrey Hendler, founder of nonprofit A Fair Shake for Youth
  • Crunching the Numbers: Center for Hospitality Research
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Global Cornell

  • Transdisciplinary project aims to prevent the next pandemic (2/10/2025)
  • Global AI among three projects funded to build better future (9/27/2024)
  • Einaudi Fellowships Support Students Learning Uncommon Languages (11/2023)
  • Connections across One Cornell (3/2019)
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Boyce Thompson Institute

  • Hemiptera Conference at BTI

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Whitman School of Management

  • Cyber Failures and IT Capability Reputation (1/20/2025)
  • Credit Cycles, Expectations and Corporate Investment (11/26/2024)
  • What is the Effect of Regime Change on Early-stage Entrepreneurial Activity? (11/26/2024)
  • Navigating the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Effects of Ethical Voice (11/26/2024)
  • How Do Different Knowledge Sources Impact Firm Behavior and Survival? (9/13/2024)
  • Do Multinational Corporations Engage in Transfer Pricing to Shift Income to Tax Havens? (9/10/2024)
  • What’s Necessary to Coordinate the Inventory Ordering and Sharing from Independent Franchisees in a Franchise Network? (4/24/2024)
  • Incentives Help Bring Healthcare Products to Underserved Regions (4/4/2024)
  • Racial Bias in Sourcing—and What Can Be Done to Address It (4/4/2024)
  • How Does Probabilistic Selling Impact the Interactions Between Manufacturers and Retailers? (4/4/2024)
  • How Should Companies Best Staff the Teams That Perform Software Maintenance on Their Systems? (11/2023)
  • Can Fintech Mortgage Lenders Fill Credit Gaps Left by Traditional Mortgage Lenders? (11/2023)
  • Profile of Guiyang Xiong (6/2023)
  • Moral Foundations May Cloud Responses to Organizational Sexual Misconduct Allegations (6/2023)
  • Risk of Employees Leaving Firm and New Technology Adoptions
  • Platform Owners Face Unusual Challenges
  • Formalizing Business Ventures
  • The Nature and Origins of Social Venture Mission
  • The Strength of Weak Legislation in Mobilizing B Corp Certification
  • Inferring Aggregate Market Return Expectations
  • What Will Motivate a Company to Learn from Its Mistakes?
  • What Impact Does Scarcity Marketing Have on Consumer Behavior?
  • Does Gender Play a Role in Quarterly Earnings Calls?
  • Blockchain in the Food Supply Chain
  • The Effect of External Monitoring on Conservative Financial Reporting
  • Profile: Prof. Susan Albring
  • Does Bounded Rationality Theory Ignore Gender?
  • The Case of Havana’s Paladares: Creating Legitimacy
  • Profile: Prof. John Petosa
  • Evaluating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Holistically
  • New Ph.D. Students Show Strength in the Face of Adversity
  • The Shopping Mall Crisis: What Will It Take for Them to Recover?
  • Supply Chain Disruptions through a Marketing Lens
  • The Dynamics of Maintaining a Reputation of Creativity
  • Profile: Devin Stein, Ph.D. ’22
  • Ph.D. Alumni Profile: Almantas Palubinskas ’20
  • Research Profile: Cristiano Bellavitis
  • Whitman’s Diverse Academic Pipeline to Top B-Schools
  • Study on FASB Reporting
  • Post COVID-19: Whitman Faculty Research Plans 

Doctoral Dissertation

Polish plum jam powidla

Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2012

  • Stirring the Pot in Poland: Traditional Plum Jam, Regional Identity, and Rural Development in the Lower Vistula Valley
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