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New York State passed climate change legislation in 2019, including the creation of a statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) budget from natural and working lands, including inland waters. This work examines GHG emissions and storage in inland water wetlands, which are not yet included in state efforts but are of interest to NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Office of Climate Change. We focus specifically on open-water wetlands (i.e., ponds), which are naturally...

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2023 Seminar Series

Many reports have been published over the last four years on the urgent need to reconfigure food systems for resilience, sustainability and equity in the face of climate change. But little information is available on the potential costs involved. One such report, based on extensive consultation and published in 2020, set out eleven actions identified as being required to accomplish this. Using existing literature, we estimated the annual cost of implementing these eleven actions to be USD 1.3 trillion. Half of this is...

Equine veterinary medicine presents many challenges because of the size and athleticism of our patients. Therefore, examination requires creative thinking in order to get the best diagnostic and prognostic information. Endoscopy allows us to view multiple regions of the horse and provides us an ‘up close’ look. The Cornell Hospital for Animals has recently re-invested in equipment that improves these abilities. Multiple examples will be shown of the utility of this technology.

Join us for an information session to learn more about the new cycle of Migrations grants, open to all PI-eligible faculty across colleges and schools. Faculty-led programs and centers within the university are also welcome to apply. 

The Cornell Migrations codirectors will address questions about priorities,...

Cornell Reproductive Sciences Center Seminar Series

"Epigenetic Reprogramming in Bovine Pre-implantation Embryos"

Ellie Duan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences

Cornell University

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

4 -5pm

Schurman Hall, LH-5

Title: "Clonal Dynamics of the Recall Antibody Response"

By: Gabriel Victora, Rockefeller University

*Featured Event of Climate Action Week*
Hosted by Mike Hoffmann & Danielle Eiseman

Webinar Registration

Climate change is a recipe for disaster. As part of Climate Action Week, authors Michael Hoffmann and Danielle Eiseman will give a presentation based on their new book, "Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need," and the companion website....

Seminar in Critical Development Studies hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of Development Studies
Speaker: Bobby J Smith II
Register: https://bit.ly/CriticalDevelopment_Smith

How does our understanding of the American civil rights movement shift if food is the starting point? In this talk, Dr. Bobby J. Smith II discusses his forthcoming book, Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, to grapple with this question. Located at the intersection of...