The Cornell Center for Veterinary Business and Entrepreneurship invites you to join the CVBE Spark Talk with Dr. Poppy McLeod on Tuesday, May 17 Noon-1:00pm EST.

Dr. McLeod is a Professor in the Department of Communication in the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Dr. McLeod’s research focus is communication and decision making in task-oriented groups, teamwork in virtual environments, the role of social influence in group communication, and intergroup dynamics.

Dr. Sarah Evanega,  Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science

Nearly three decades have passed since genetically modified crops (so-called 'GMOs') were widely commercialized. Vociferous debate remains about the use of biotechnology in agriculture, despite a worldwide scientific consensus on their safety and utility. Far less controversial are GMOs widely adopted in human medicine, such as the insulin that diabetics rely on...

As the first and Cornell's chapter president of National VOICE, a SAVMA delegate and Chair of the Multicultural Student Outreach Committee, Dr. Sullivan honors the intersection of diversity, equity and inclusion and veterinary medicine. With interests in surgery, neurology, bevavior and exotics, it is sure to be a great conversation. Sponsored by CVM's Office of Inclusion & Academic Excellence.

Bio: Chloe Ahmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell. Chloe is an environmental anthropologist studying the long afterlife of American industry. Chloe’s work is based in Baltimore, following industrialism’s enduring traces in toxified landscapes, patchy regulation, quotidian expressions of white supremacy, and particular orientations toward time. The work considers what efforts to think and enact environmental futures look like from the sedimented space of late industrialism. Chloe is also beginning work on ecofascist sentiments in the United States, and...

Join us as we bring back the annual Pedal for Pets bike ride to support the Cornell University Hospital for Animals Patient Assistance Fund! This is a fun cycling event open to both the Cornell and surrounding community. Sign up to ride in  the 11- or 33- mile ride,  purchase raffle tickets or directly donate on our website pedal4pets.com. Participants in the bike ride will receive a coffee tumbler, Pedal for pets sticker, complementary raffle ticket and food after the event!

As part of the Spring 2022 Sociology Colloquium, the Department of Sociology, invites you to attend the event Toxic Neighborhoods: The Effects of Concentrated Poverty and Environmental Lead Contamination on Early Childhood Development by guest speaker Geoffrey Wodtke hosted by Peter Rich.

Toxic...

We often hear about how relationships are essential to initiating collaboration, including research-practice partnerships (RPPs). Yet that raises several key questions. How do these relationships form? And why do some relationships form and not others? Answering these questions is especially important for RPPs given that, oftentimes, researchers and practitioners start off as strangers to one another, and strangers tend to remain strangers if left to their own devices. Adam Seth Levine presents a three-part argument: a new theory on when diverse thinkers choose to engage with each other,...

A monthly diversity and inclusion dialog series