Past Events: 2024

Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:00pm

Disasters like droughts, earthquakes, floods, and storms are becoming more frequent and intense, among others due to climate change. Consequentially, both decision makers and scholars are increasingly concerned about the security implications of disasters. At the same time, the number of armed conflicts globally is on a historical height. However, as of yet, little is known on how disaster impacts the dynamics of such conflicts. In other words: How do conflict parties react if a disaster strikes a civil war zone? ...

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 12:00pm

"Characterizing Novel Viruses for Their Spillover Potential"

By: Dr. Claude Kwe Yinda

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 12:00pm

Grief & Loss. Come as early as 11:30am to pick up a meal voucher for lunch at the cafe!

Monday, March 11, 2024 - 6:00pm

Become a Cornell Public Health professional! Find out how to promote health and wellbeing, advance health equity and sustainability and LEAD CHANGE! Join us and learn more about our MPH Program and new concentrations. We look forward to speaking with at our virtual info session.

Saturday, March 9, 2024 - 8:00am

Join us for a fun and educational day full of speakers, wet labs, posters, and networking centered around One Health! Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Sue Vandewoude, a leader in researching feline infectious diseases in domestic and wild populations. Accompanying her will be other lecturers discussing a variety of One Health topics on poultry, bats, and aquaculture. We will also be hosting wet labs and providing breakfast, a coffee break, and lunch, so it is an event you won't want to miss!

Friday, March 8, 2024 - 3:00pm

Seminar in Critical Development Studies, Spring 2024

This seminar is co-hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of Development Studies.

Abstract

Over the years, hundreds of climate change adaptation projects have been implemented globally. While there has been substantial scholarship on the extent and nature of adaptation efforts, fewer studies have examined why and how adaptation projects are being resisted. Meanwhile, analysis of resistance to adaptation offers critical insights to scholars and practitioners by recognizing the contentious...

Friday, March 8, 2024 - 12:15pm

Title: "An Expanding Universe: Bile Acids in Mucosal Immune Regulation"

By: Mark Sundrud, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College

Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 7:00pm

Become a Cornell Public Health professional! Find out how to promote health and wellbeing, advance health equity and sustainability and LEAD CHANGE! Join us and learn more about our MPH Program and new concentrations. We look forward to speaking with at our virtual info session.

Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 1:00pm

eCornell Keynote

From the river valleys and grasslands of Nepal to the high mountains of Central Asia, from tigers to leopards to vultures to Asiatic wild dogs (or dholes) — and from canine distemper to wildlife poisonings to the infectious diseases impacting wild sheep and goats as well as their domestic cousins — there is no shortage of threats to the health of these magnificent species and ecosystems, with some of these very same threats being of importance to agriculture and public health.

Join us as Dr. Martin Gilbert from the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife...

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 4:00pm

“Ecologies of knowledge: Language, artifacts, and calibrations”

Friday, March 1, 2024 - 12:15pm

Title: "Could We Prevent Pandemics By Stopping Spillover?"

By: Raina Plowright, Cornell University

Friday, March 1, 2024 - 12:00pm

In this talk, Dr. Fox will introduce what rapid/applied ethnography is, including the different types of methods that lend themselves to applied ethnography. She will then give an example of how students applied methods introduced in the course through the school food project, and what results came from it.

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 - 5:00pm

Become a Cornell Public Health professional! Find out how to promote health and wellbeing, advance health equity and sustainability and LEAD CHANGE! Join us and learn more about our MPH Program and new concentrations. We look forward to speaking with at our virtual info session.

Friday, February 23, 2024 - 12:15pm

Title: "Ins and Outs of Double-Stranded RNA Viruses"

By: Kristen Ogden, Vanderbilt University

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 12:00pm

Learn why networks are so important, and how to create and maintain a robust scientific network to help advance your career in academia or other scientific jobs. Register using this link: https://bit.ly/3SLbzNb Send questions to: PACE@cornell.edu

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 7:00pm

Become a Cornell Public Health professional! Find out how to promote health and wellbeing, advance health equity and sustainability and LEAD CHANGE! Join us and learn more about our MPH Program and new concentrations. We look forward to speaking with at our virtual info session.

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