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Seminar

Moving the Needle on STEAM Diversity through Collaborative Partnerships with Minority Serving Institutions
Fall 2021 SIPS Plant Breeding and Genetics Weekly Section Seminars Abstract This session will provide participants who have an interest in increasing STEAM (science, technology, engineering, agriculture, and math) diversity through the...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • school of integrative plant science
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Lecture

Place names, monuments and cannibalism: James Cook and the possessive logics of patriarchal white sovereignty
Globally there are over 100 memorials to Captain James Cook, whose voyagers throughout the Pacific enabled empire and colonization. As one of the largest archipelagos in the Pacific, Hawaii is famous for many things, especially its hospitality...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
Fatema Sumar

Seminar

The development diplomat: Working across borders, boardrooms, and bureaucracies to end poverty
Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series: Fall 2021 From from domestic and foreign waters, "The Development Diplomat: Working Across Borders, Boardrooms, and Bureaucracies to End Poverty" is the story of an immigrant woman who blended...
  • global development
  • Department of Global Development
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Conference

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2021 Cornell Nutrition Conference
For 83 years, the Cornell Nutrition Conference has provided industry leading research and information across the spectrum of animal nutrition to feed industry professionals and nutritional consultants. The year's event will be a hybrid format...
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy
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Virtual Better Process Control School - Acidified Foods Only
The Better Process Control Schools (BPCS) certify supervisors of thermal processing systems, acidification and container closure evaluation programs for low-acid and acidified canned foods. This school satisfies the training requirements...
  • Cornell Agritech
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
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Seminar

Adjudicating “development”: Transnational US law and the disciplining of debtor states
Seminar in Critical Development Studies hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of Development Sociology Seminar abstract The extension of US domestic law over the economic activities of foreign governments within and beyond...
  • Department of Global Development
  • global development
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Seminar

Cornell Biogeochemistry Seminar Series Presents: Dr. Emily Bernhardt
Attendees will learn about the earth's biogeochemical cycling by world experts and will hear about some of the most pressing biogeochemical questions across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. In this session, Dr. Emily Bernhardt, James B. Duke...
  • Biogeochemistry
Jan Low

Seminar

Can biofortified crops like orange-fleshed sweetpotato meaningfully contribute to food system transformation
Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series: Fall 2021 There is growing agreement on the urgent need to transform global and local food systems to be healthier, more affordable, and less damaging to the environment. How to get there is the...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • school of integrative plant science
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Conference

Day 2 - Rhythms of the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Science and Thriving Together in a Changing Climate
A three-day, international conference bringing together communities, scholars and policymakers. We will present our research findings from Indigenous and rural societies in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, as well as...
  • environment
  • Environment & Natural Resources
  • Diversity & Inclusion
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Webinar

Cultivating Peace in the Valley: Practicing for Navigating the Ebb and Flow of the Inner Work of Racial Justice
As we confront the legacy of historical White Supremacy -- exploring the effects of wage and wealth inequality, witnessing political polarization, and realizing the related climate distress and public health consequences -- we are all challenged...
  • Department of Global Development
  • global development
  • CLASP
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Conference

Day 1 - Rhythms of the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Science and Thriving Together in a Changing Climate
A three-day, international conference bringing together communities, scholars and policymakers. We will present our research findings from Indigenous and rural societies in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, as well as...
  • environment
  • Environment & Natural Resources
  • Diversity & Inclusion
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Lecture

What remains: Colonial racial capitalism, videogames, and an empire in play
As videogame designers respond to critiques of and demands for gendered and racial representations, more and more games have started to offer alternative embodiments and narratives to consider the gendered dynamics of who is imagined to design...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
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Workshop

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Cornell Farmworker Program hosts the Mexican Mobile Consulate
The Cornell Farmworker Program will host the Mexican Mobile Consulate in Ithaca for a three-day event: Wednesday, October 6 from 11:00 AM-3:30 PM Thursday, October 7 from 3:00 PM-7:30 PM Friday, October 8 from 9:00 AM- 1:30 PM To schedule an...
  • Cornell Farmworker Program
  • Department of Global Development
  • global development
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Seminar

Perspectives on the Role of the Private Sector in Global Development
Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series: Fall 2021 Dr. Sara Boettiger will discuss lessons learned about past agricultural transformations in LMICs that drove mass poverty reduction, improvements in food security, and agriculture-led...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
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Lecture

Dale E. Bauman Lecture
“Nutrition and immunity against infectious diseases— through the lens of vitamin A” A. Catharine Ross, Ph.D. Professor of Nutrition and Physiology Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair Head, Department of Nutritional Sciences The Pennsylvania State...
  • Dairy
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
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Webinar

Everyone’s Earth: Conversations on Race and Environment
Voices of National Leadership in Anti-Racism in the Outdoors Join us for a conversation with those leading the nation’s effort to address racism and the outdoors. Together, we will explore ways we can increase diversity and equity as it relates...
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • school of integrative plant science
  • Horticulture
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Seminar

Reimagining solutions to gender inequality
Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series: Fall 2021 In the last decade, a lot of attention has been on how to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women. All too often, the development discourse has tended to simplify the...
  • global development
  • Department of Global Development
  • gender
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Lecture

Space-time colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian entanglements
Professor Juliana Hu Pegues will discuss her recent book, Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements, published by University of North Carolina Press as part of their Critical Indigeneities series. As the enduring "last...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
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Graduate Field of Animal Science Research Updates
348 Frank Morrison Hall 507 Tower Road Ithaca, NY 14853 Schedule: 9/23: Andres Ortega "Examining the Role of Non-Essential AA for Milk Yield and Energetic Efficiency: Abomasal Infusion of Essential and Non-Essential Amino Acids using Energy as...
  • Animals
  • science communication
  • Animal Science
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Seminar

Transforming food systems for global sustainable development
Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series: Fall 2021 Sustainable global development is a function of the progress made on many dimensions of human and planetary wellbeing. These dimensions are embodied in the Sustainable Development...
  • global development
  • Department of Global Development
  • food