This virtual career panel hosted by the Cornell China Center features three accomplished Cornell alumni pursuing academic paths in sustainability research. Chinese panelists will share how they have built their academic paths in sustainability, with insights from their international and multicultural backgrounds. They will discuss their interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies as well as their personal stories and takeaways from their academic journeys, offering valuable guidance and inspiration to students, postdocs, and alumni who are interested in sustainability. We welcome you to join this conversation to gain a deeper understanding of how to build a sustainability-related career in academia.

Panelists:

Chuan Liao, MS'12, PhD'15: Assistant Professor, Department Global Development, Cornell UniversityYue Li, PhD'17: Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens PointsZhenli Richard Chen, ESS'20, MPS'21 : Current PhD student, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford UniversityModerators:

Yingyun Zhang '23 (Information Science and Government)Ying Hua, Director of the Cornell China Center and Associate Professor at Cornell UniversityRegister here.

International students, connect with successful international alumni working in the United States, India, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and beyond during this two-hour virtual networking session!

Participating alumni work in real estate, engineering, law, finance, venture capital, architecture, and more. You'll have the opportunity to learn about their career trajectories and seek mentorship.

Alumni will have their own virtual rooms, and students can move between rooms throughout the event to speak with different alumni. Come prepared with questions and an eagerness to connect!

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In Latin America, dairy production faces serious challenges such as low-quality forage, diseases (infectious, metabolic, and parasitic), climate change, and insufficient access to technology, markets, infrastructure, and resources. Nevertheless, the dairy industry directly impacts the socioeconomic status of millions of families through its contribution to income, food security, and access to protein. A review of unique pasture-based dairy systems located mainly in lowlands (valleys and plains) and highlands (Andes Mountains) will provide context for a presentation of applied field research aiming to improve dairy cows’ health and quality of life for dairy farmers in Colombia.

About the Speaker

Dr. Francisco Leal Yepes is originally from Colombia, where he obtained his DVM degree. In 2011, he moved to Ithaca, NY, and worked as a research assistant for two years. Then, he started his Ph.D. in 2013 and a residency in Ambulatory and Production Medicine in 2016 at Cornell University. From 2018 until 2020, Franco was a Clinical Instructor in Ambulatory and Production Medicine at Cornell University. Franco started as an assistant professor of Agricultural Animal Production at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, in October 2020. He provides dairy farms with advice on primary care and preventive medicine while teaching senior veterinary students.

A LACS 60th Anniversary Special Seminar

In this event, historians Tessa Murphy (Syracuse) and Heather Roller (Golgate) will join LACS director Ernesto Bassi in a conversation about Murphy’s and Roller’s recently published, award-winning books The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean (2021) and Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil (2021).

Murphy and Roller will uncover the multiple ways indigenous people in the Lesser Antilles and Brazil encountered Europeans, expanding the universe of interactions beyond futile efforts of resisting European encroachment. Their books show how indigenous people in the eastern Caribbean and the Brazilian interior prevented Europeans from establishing sovereignty in what the Kalinagos, the Mura, and other indigenous groups considered their territories. Successfully deploying technology and diplomacy, strategically engaging in trade and warfare, and even developing alliances with other newcomers, were all part of the toolkit indigenous groups used to maintain their treasured autonomy.

The Creole Archipelago won the 2022 James A. Rawley Prize, granted by the American Historical Association, to recognize outstanding historical writing that explores aspects of integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century, as well as the 2022 FEEGI book prize, granted by the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions, for its groundbreaking examination of “islands beyond empires” and of local/creole and indigenous instrumentality in forging a Creole Archipelago.

Contact Strategies won the 2022 Friedrich Katz Prize, granted by the American Historical Association, to the best book published in English focusing on Latin America, including the Caribbean, as well as the 2022 Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize for the Best Book in Social Sciences, granted by the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

Tessa Murphy, The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). An Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. Her research and teaching interests lie in the history of the colonial Americas, broadly defined to include the Caribbean, Central, and South America, and what are now Canada and the United States.

Heather Roller, Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021). A Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Colgate University, where she teaches courses on global environmental history, Brazil and Amazonia, and the histories of Indigenous peoples in the Americas. In addition to Contact Strategies, she is the author of Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil.