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Speaker, Kyle Davis

Seminar

Measuring the Sustainability of Food Production Systems: Exploring the Solution Space
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Sustainable food systems aim to provide sufficient and nutritious food, while maximizing climate resilience and minimizing environmental impacts. Yet historical practices, notably the...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Development
Speaker, Dr. Shannon Monnat

Seminar

U.S. Rural Population Health in the Context of Drug Overdoses, COVID-19, and Longer-Term Mortality Trends
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series The U.S. rural mortality penalty is wide and growing. This talk will present an overview of trends in rural and urban mortality rates since 1990, identify where rates have increased...
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Global Development
  • Development
Speaker, Barbara Botos

Seminar

Global climate emergency. Road from Glasgow to Sharm el-Sheikh
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series We are in a race against time. We are losing. We live in a world of the triple planetary crisis (environmental pollution, biodiversity loss, climate crisis), which has been exacerbated...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Development
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Field Day

USDA-ARS Apple, Grape, and Tart Cherry Germplasm Collection Tour
How many apple varieties exist? Why do we need so many? Come visit the USDA apple, grape and tart cherry collections at Cornell AgriTech to find out! The USDA Plant Genetic Resources Unit maintains thousands of unique trees and vines for...
  • Fruits
  • Genetics
Speaker, Jesus Orozco

Seminar

Fighting Malnutrition and Poor Residue Management with the Use of a Wonderful Insect: Hermetia illucens (L.)
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Honduras is one of the five Latin-American countries with the highest malnutrition rate in Latin America. In some rural towns, more than half of the children from 6-60 months are below...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Development
Scott MacMillan

Seminar

Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times called him “one of the unsung heroes of modern times.” Fazle Hasan Abed was a mild-mannered accountant who may be the most influential man most...
  • Global Development
  • Development
  • Department of Global Development
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Webinar

Ithaca Fall Update Town Hall with Dean Houlton
Join Ronald P. Lynch Dean Benjamin Houlton for a CALS Town Hall Update for Ithaca-area faculty and staff followed by Q+A. Topics will include an overview of the new CALS strategic plan announced in May, details about the transdisciplinary...
  • Ronald P. Lynch Dean
Speaker, Jacky Oyugi

Seminar

From Kibera to the World
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series My name is Jackline Oyugi. I was born and raised up in Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya, East Africa. I went to school through the help of sponsors who paid for my primary and...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Development
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Field Day

Welcome Back Picnic
Join The American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program to kickoff the fall semester with games, good food, and good friends (old and new). This year, AIISP will hold the Welcome Back Picnic at Myers Park in Lansing (10 miles up the east side of...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
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Webinar

Geneva Fall Update Town Hall with Dean Houlton
Join Ronald P. Lynch Dean Benjamin Houlton for a CALS Town Hall Update for Geneva-area faculty and staff followed by Q+A. Topics will include an overview of the new CALS strategic plan announced in May, details about the transdisciplinary...
  • Ronald P. Lynch Dean
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Festival

CALS Fest 2022
What has free Cornell Dairy ice cream, live animals, tie-dye, the chance to dunk the CALS dean, music, lawn games, free giveaways and more? Why, CALS Fest does, of course! Join us Thursday, August 25 from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. for a fun-filled, start...
Speaker, Alexander Popp

Seminar

Integrative Modelling for Sustainable Land-Use Futures
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Nowadays, production of food, energy and materials, and the related use of water, nitrogen and other inputs account for crucial components and interactions in the land as well as full...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
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Field Day

2022 Aurora Farm Field Day
The date for the annual Cornell Field Crop research field day has been set for Thursday, August 18th at Musgrave Research Farm in Aurora, NY. The program will include: Kirsten Workman, Bhupinder Jatana, and Perejitei Bekewe: Nutrient Management...
  • Field Crops
  • Organic
Fields, dirt, greenhouse, tomatoes, beer, pilot plant.

Field Day

Cornell AgriTech 140th Anniversary Open House
Our open house is open to all audiences and all are encouraged to visit our campus for a fun-filled educational day. Parking is available at Jordan Hall at 630 W. North St. Geneva, NY. No registration required. Agenda: (Subject to change)
  • Cornell AgriTech
Christmas Trees FRU

Field Day

NYS IPM - Christmas Tree Field Day
We will be holding a field day to show off our new tree establishment project - as well as our previous habitat project - on Friday, August 12, 2022 from 5:00pm - 7:30pm at the Fruit and Vegetable Research Farm, 1097 County Route 4, Geneva, NY...
  • Cornell Agritech
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Field Day

Registration open for Cornell Hemp Field Day - August 11, 2022 - Geneva, NY
Registration is now closed. The Cornell Field Day will incorporate multiple workshop-style talks on several topics including hemp genetics and breeding, pest management, and grain and fiber production. It will also involve demonstrations of...
  • Cornell Agritech
  • Cornell AgriTech
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Class

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2-Day Virtual Better Process Control School - Mild Thermal Processing Foods
August 9 & 10, 2022 Virtual Class via Zoom Online exams via Qualtrics The Better Process Control Schools (BPCS) certify supervisors of thermal processing systems, acidification and container closure evaluation programs for low-acid and acidified...
  • Food Science
  • Cornell AgriTech
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Field Day

No-Till Field Day
Visit the Hudson Valley Farm Hub on Aug 4, 2022 (rain date Aug 11) for a field day about organic no-till crop production targeted at field crop farmers in the region. Talks by researchers and growers will discuss cover and cash crops sequences...
  • Organic
  • Field Crops
reduced tillage farm field

Field Day

Reduced Tillage in Vegetable Crops Field Day
As part of the New York Soil Health 2022 Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Field Day series we will have a field day on July 28th from 3:00pm to 7:00pm at the B & B Crop Farm (Fonda, NY). The agenda will include: Using Soil health to increase...
  • Organic
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Field Day

Tools and Tactics for Soil and Weed Management in Vegetable Production
As part of the New York Soil Health 2022 Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Field Day series we will have a field day on July 25th from 3:00pm to 7:00pm at the Freeville Organic Research Farm (part of the Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research...
  • Organic
  • Vegetables