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Seminar

In this talk, Hale Tufan, Ph.D., will describe three research areas aiming to guide agricultural research processes and outputs to positively contribute to gender equality and social inclusion. 3/9 @ Noon ET
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
Ram Ramanathan

Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2022 Seminar Series Climate Change has already reached unprecedented levels with record breaking weather extremes. Over the last two decades when the mean warming was around 0.9 C, about 606000 people...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
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Seminar

In this talk, Chase Mendenhall, Ph.D., will introduce the stakeholders and science of Queer Biology and Countryside Biogeography, exploring their roles in building an LGBTQ+ inclusive evolutionary narrative and guiding conservation investments in rural Latinx communities. 3/8 @ 3:30 p.m. ET
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
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Seminar

In this talk, Aidee Guzman, Ph.D., will present her research on how on-farm diversification in an intensively managed landscape can bolster below- to above-ground biodiversity and their interactions on agroecosystems. 3/7 @ noon ET
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar

Workshop

Update 3/2: This event is now closed to RSVPs. You are welcome to arrive at the event time to gain entry as a walk-in as seats become available. The Rural Development agency of the US Department of Agriculture is the federal government’s leading...
CK Lee

Webinar

A conversation with Ching Kwan Lee, professor in the UCLA Department of Sociology Professor Ching Kwan Lee explores the making of 'global China' as an economic, cultural, and political phenomenon in this conversation with Jenny Goldstein...
  • Global Development
  • Polson Institute
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
Tim Hart

Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series: Spring 2022 Oxentia developed out of the University of Oxford’s technology transfer office. Over the last 18 years we have taken experience and expertise in innovation and entrepreneurship and...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
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Seminar

In three vignettes, Steven Johnson, Ph.D., will describe a way to design and establish climate cooperatives – sets of nations that share similar ocean environments separated by time.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
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Seminar

This talk by Shauna Downs, Ph.D., will focus on three main areas of research aimed at providing solutions to increase the availability, affordability, and acceptability of healthy foods produced by sustainable food systems.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
Sudha Narayanan

Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series: Spring 2022 No national occupational group in the world contains more people, or more poor people, than India’s agricultural sector, which recently saw massive farmers’ protests against three...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Development
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Seminar

In this talk, Francisca (Kika) Santana will discuss how different social processes – social norms, social support, and place attachment – shape the ways that individuals respond to threats and changes in their biophysical environment.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
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Seminar

In this talk, Amber M. Hamilton draws on 24 months of digital ethnographic fieldwork within Black Twitter to define a theory of "doing race" in the digital sphere.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
Misty mountains with pine trees

Seminar

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. Aimée Classen, professor and...
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change
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Seminar

Building upon work in critical development studies, agrarian political ecology and postcolonial thought, this talk from Kevon Rhiney, Ph.D., explores the ways vulnerable communities in the Caribbean are negotiating the intersecting crises of global environmental and economic change.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
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Seminar

In this talk, Rori Rohlfs Ph.D. will discuss analyses based on publicly available population genetic data regarding the lack of the quantified accuracy of emerging forensic genetic technologies, particularly in light of population genetic variation, and clarity on what (if any) medical information could be revealed through forensic genetic profiles.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
Wiwik

Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series: Spring 2022 The traditional farming system in Bali, known as subak, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012. The subak represents water sharing practices in rice cultivation that...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Development
Dairy cows in Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine Teaching Dairy Barn.

Webinar

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This webinar series will be presented entirely by Dr. Heather Huson, Associate Professor, Department of Animal Science,Cornell University. Based on Dr. Huson’s Applied Genetics course, this webinar offers participants an understanding of how to...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • CCE
  • Dairy
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Seminar

Kelsey Leonard, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Waters, Climate, and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
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Seminar

In this talk, Shaila Musharoff, Ph.D. will present two computational approaches to model ancestry, both as a confounder and as a source of trait-relevant information.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar
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Seminar

In this talk, Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin will explore the inclusive and innovative ways Black women and femmes use digital technologies to produce "intersectional journalism," a journalistic practice that actively engages intersectional frameworks and Black feminist praxis in news production.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inclusive Excellence Seminar