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Friday, February 20

All systems go: Uncovering the intricacies of host-pathogen interaction specificity

The 21st century is a transformative time to be a geneticist with an affinity for agriculture because modern molecular biology tools can be readily applied...

Basic Dairy Science and Sanitation Workshop

This workshop is designed to help participants understand the basic principles of dairy science and safety, as well as understanding the needs of their dairy...

Calling All Artists!

Calling All Artists! [past event]

“We Step Into the Light” is a project that raises awareness about sexual assault, relationship and gender-based violence, and stalking through art created...

Cornell Club of the Greater Capital District - Cornell Women's Hockey vs. RPI and Union

Cornell Women's Hockey vs. RPI and Union (Fri., Feb, 20 at 7 pm and Sat., Feb. 21 at 4 pm).• Exciting weekend of hockey as the women's team comes to...

EPA Lead RRP- Refresher 2/20 Rensselaer

LEAD RENOVATION, REPAIR, & PAINTING (RRP-Refresher) February 2015-TRAINING CLASSES-CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED- REGISTER TODAY- ALL TRAININGS ARE FREE *Please fax,...

Farmers Market Manager Training Conference

The conference will focus on farmers markets and building programs and services that maintain connections with the market farmers, consumers, and host...

Green Team Snow Shoeing

Registration for event has CLOSED.

IP & Pizza What is Eligible for Patent Protection

Historically, anything under the sun made by man has been considered eligible for patent protection. However, recent Supreme Court decisions and guidelines...

Pink the Rink with GOPiNK and Cornell Men's Hockey

Cornell Men's Hockey is partnering with GOPiNK to raise funds and awareness for the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes through an on-campus...

Science Day Camp

Science Day Camp [past event]

Madison County 4-H and Colgate University are excited to announce we will be offering a science camp at the Ho Tung Science Center on Colgate's Campus...

Seminar on Goose Problems on School Grounds & Athletic Fields

Although beautiful in flight and valued as a symbol of the wild, Canada Geese frequenting school grounds, including athletic fields, are a growing concern....

UN Trip

UN Trip [past event]

Learn about the UN through a building tour and panel discussion with UN experts! Sign up @ House Office. You must pay a non-refundable deposit of $20 to...

John Reps: Glorious Bastides: A Journey Through Time

This exhibition features photographs, taken in 1966, recording the appearance of some of the most important French bastides — the 13th century newly planned...

Pillsbury Institute's Hospitality Entrepreneurship Roundtable

~This Roundtable is chaired by Mona Anita K. Olsen, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor and Assistant Academic Director of the Leland C. and Mary M....

Tumor Board 2014-2015

Tumor Board 2014-2015 [past event]

Tumor board is a seminar series dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary study of topics relevant to veterinary oncology. To broaden the perspective, the...

Wild Flowers for a Winter Season

Bringing more than a little color into the middle of an Ithaca winter, this exhibit presents stunning photography by the late Dr. Jim Reveal (1941-2015)....

Will Cotton: Vistas of Candy Land

From the late 1990s onward New York City–based artist Will Cotton has created paintings featuring gingerbread structures in completely edible environments....

150 Ways to Say Cornell

Cornell University Library’s new exhibition, 150 Ways to Say Cornell, celebrates Cornell’s Sesquicentennial. On April 27, 1865, New York State Governor...

Lincoln’s Unfinished Work

On January 31, 1865 the United States Congress passed the 13th Amendment, ending slavery in America. President Lincoln would not live to see the final...

Conference:  Affect and Politics

Conference: Affect and Politics Hosted by the Society for the Humanities Friday, February 20, 2015 Guerlac Room, AD White House 9:30am ...

"This is no less curious": Journeys through the Collection

Departing from Enrique Chagoya’s suite of etchings Homage to Goya II: Disasters of War as a visual and conceptual anchor, this exhibition examines hidden...

An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection

A yearlong exhibition presents twelve paintings from the New York-based Leiden Collection, one of the most important private collections 17th-century Dutch...

Botanical Cyanotypes by Laurie Snyder

Now through the end of February, cyanotype botanical prints by Laurie Snyder will be on dislplay in the Nevin Welcome Center. Laurie Snyder is an Ithaca...

Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy

Drawing on Cornell’s collection of plaster casts after classical art—the brainchild of Andrew Dickson White—this exhibition marks Cornell’s Sesquicentennial...

Challah for Hunger

Challah for Hunger [past event]

Hungry? Treat yourself to some challah! Challah is a sweet and delicious bread that you can enjoy in four flavors: cinnamon sugar, raisin, plain, and...

Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist

In celebration of Cornell's Sesquicentennial, the Johnson Museum's presents the first significant exhibition of its Margaret Bourke-White photographs in 25...

Staged, Performed, Manipulated

One could argue that most photographs are staged. Portrait photographs are certainly performed or even manipulated by both photographer and subject. While...

Cornell Club of Michigan - All-Ivy Lunch

Friday, February 20th - RSVP now for All-Ivy LunchWHAT: Friday All-Ivy LunchWHO: Ivy Alumni and FriendsWHEN: 11:30 am, Friday, February 20th, 2015WHERE: L.A....

Continuous Stimulation of T cells by CMV Infection Induces Memory Inflation in Circulation and Mucosal Tissues

Christopher M. Snyder, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson...

Systems Seminar/Ezra's Round Table: Judith Dahmann (Mitre) - Complex System of Systems: Challenges and Opportunities for Systems Engineering

Increasingly key elements of society – defense, energy, transportation, water resources, telecommunications, finance, others – critically depend on the...

Edmond J McMahon: The New York Difference: How (if not why) Our Local Governments Spend More

Edmund J. McMahon is president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, Inc., a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank based in Albany, New York. McMahon's...

Noliwe Rooks: Michelle Obama, Food Justice, and the Big Business of Poverty in the South Bronx

Noliwe Rooks is currently an associate professor in Africana Studies at Cornell where she is also the director of graduate studies. An interdisciplinary...

CLASSE Seminar: George Srajer, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory

"Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Quantum Phase Transitions at the Advanced Photon Source*" Abstract: Applied pressure has long been employed as an...

Solamente Español

Solamente Español [past event]

Spanish Conversation Hour. All levels are welcome to this informal gathering where you can practice your Spanish if you are a beginner or meet other Spanish...

CU Music: Composers' Forum 2/20

Guest composer and Philomela speaker Amy Beth Kirsten presents her work. (Enter 316 Lincoln via 220, the Music Library.)

Grading Effectively and Efficiently

How do you assign grades, devise a grading rubric and grade in a fair, consistent way? A course grade reflects student competency and mastery of the...

ORIE Colloquium: Rafael Frongillo (Harvard) - A Unified Theory of Elicitation via Convex Analysis

Elicitation is the study of mechanisms which incentivize the truthful reporting of private information from self-minded agents. In this talk I will present a...

Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race and Nation in Tanzania

Rick Schroeder, Rutgers University. Africa after Apartheid traces the history of Tanzania’s thirty-year involvement in the anti-apartheid struggle. It...

DCS Nestle Purina Seminar Series

Recent molecular results on why salmon skin fat is good for my Jack Russell, presented by Dr. Tom Brenna, PhD, Cornell University Department of Population...

TATKON CENTER HOT CHOCOLATE FRIDAYS

FREE HOT CHOCOLATE FRIDAYS, 3 – 5 pm, starting February 20 through March! CAROL TATKON CENTER, (South Balch Hall) Stop by and talk to Tatkon student...

AGN GSPS

AGN GSPS [past event]

The Astronomy Graduate Network's Graduate Student and Postdoc Seminar

Anthropology Colloquium:  Cynthia Mahmood "The Politics of Martyrdom and Militance in Punjab"

Anthropology Colloquium event: Cynthia Mahmood "The Politics of Martyrdom and Militance in Punjab"

CAM Colloquium: Ioannis Papastathopoulos (Edinburgh) - High-dimensional inference for multivariate extremes

Natural hazards such as floods, heatwaves and windstorms can cause havoc for the people affected and typically result in huge financial losses. Drug-induced...

Career Conversation with Randy Freeman, Anthropology '75, Executive Director of the York Jewish Community Center

Randy directs and leads a $5 million community non profit agency with profit/loss responsibilities, 200+ staff and a newly expanded and renovated facility....

Language Corner

Language Corner [past event]

The Language Corner provides a unique opportunity and platform for language learners to gather, meet and talk with each other to improve their proficiency in...

LEPP Journal Club: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers

Illuminating New Physics at the LHC with the Higgs Boson The experimental data from the LHC strongly points toward the existence of a fundamental spin-0...

BME 5010: Newton de Faria "What skills should I master to become a professional Biomedical Engineer?"

“What skills should I Master to become a professional Biomedical Engineer?” ABSTRACT: This question is present in the minds of the people accrediting...

War Makes Tax States: Were the Greeks Exceptional?

Andrew Monson is an Associate Professor of Classics at NYU. He is interested in the social and economic history of Greece and the Near East, the Hellenistic...

Bate-Papo: Portuguese Conversation Hour

Fala Português? Have you been to Brazil? Don't miss the opportunity to meet Cornell's Brazilian exchange students at "Bate-Papo: Portuguese Conversation...

Hockey with HP Hancock: Cornell Hockey vs. RPI

Come to Cornell's second to last home hockey game vs. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Professor Hancock! 6pm, Dinner with House Professor...

Senior Series: CU vs RPI

Meet SAs Eugenia and Karl at the House Office Becker Seniors. RSVP to Karl @ kfm53 First come, first served.

Cornell vs RPI Men's Hockey

Join GRF JC and SA Dennis. Sign up at the House Office $8 for residents.

Keep Warm Make Your Own Mocs

Please join us for a workshop with artist Samantha Jacobs (Turtle Clan, Seneca Nation) where she will demonstrate step by step instructions on how to make...

Duo Mignarda Concert

Duo Mignarda Concert [past event]

This lute and voice duo will present a meditative concert of polyphony and Gregorian chant, this friday at 7pm. The concert is free and open to the public

Signals: A Performance Memoir w/live music

Ithaca Premiere!! 2014 > USA > Directed by Mary Lorson Mary Lorson, a musician, composer and dramatist, grew up in the 60's and 70's in Westchester County,...

CU Music: Faculty Jazz Quintet canceled

CANCELED: Cornell University Faculty Jazz Quintet plays music of the second Miles Davis Quintet. Features Paul Merrill, trumpet; James Spinazzola,...

Cocktail Reception hosted by the Ivy League Alumni of India

The Ivy League Alumni of India invites you for a cocktail reception to network with alumni from the top Indian and International Graduate Schools in Delhi.A...

Interstellar

Interstellar [past event]

2014 > USA > Directed by Christopher Nolan With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain Faced with Earth's decline, a team of scientists embarks...

Friday, February 20