Through programs around the globe, the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health strives to sustain a healthier world by developing and implementing proactive, science-based solutions to challenges at the interface of wildlife health, domestic animal health, human health and livelihoods, and the environment that supports us all.

The Fiorella Research Group, with projects spanning East Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, aims to safeguard the health of aquatic ecosystems and promote the sustainable development of capture fisheries and aquaculture. The expansion of aquatic food systems is pivotal for reducing global malnutrition and achieving economic development. This growth, however, must be balanced with formidable challenges in protecting biodiversity, ensuring food safety, and maintaining fish health.

Join Katie Fiorella, Sebastian Heilpern, and Eric Teplitz as they use case studies from rapidly emerging aquatic food sectors in Cambodia, the Amazon, and Kenya to underscore the critical importance of aquatic environments and biodiversity to our own health. They will also highlight the One Health approaches required to address these challenges in aquatic systems.

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Art credit: Jaime Choclote, WCS

Invasive Species: A Collaborative Exhibit is a meeting between art and science on the impacts of invasive species in New York State, and a call to every-day action.

The contributing partners to this show are visual artist Hovey Brock, the New York State Hemlock Initiative (NYSHI) and students from the interdisciplinary field class Earth Projects.

Hovey Brock is a visual artist and writer whose work focuses on the impacts of climate change in the Catskill ecosystem where he lives. www.hoveybrock.com/

NYSHI, launched by Mark Whitmore in 2017, researches the Integrated Pest Management and Biological Control of hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA). Biological control is a method of pest control using predators or parasitoids. In addition to biocontrol, NYSHI conducts research on Integrated Pest Management, an approach that seeks to combine strategies to find the most effective and environmentally friendly way to address pest issues. Learn more about this work and how to get involved here: blogs.cornell.edu/nyshemlockinitiative/

Earth Projects, ENVS/NTRES 3020, taught by artist and scientist Dr. Anna Davidson in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, is a seven-week immersive field course in art & ecology. Learn more here: cornellecoarts.org/envs-3200/course-description-syllabus/

The opening will take place on February 27, 2025: https://events.cornell.edu/event/Invasive-Species-opening

This exhibit is the result of a partnership between the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, the NYS Hemlock Initiative, and Mann Library, and is made possible by funding from the Elizabeth E. (Betty) Rowley Fund for Mann Library.

This exhibiit is free and open to all during the open hours of Mann Library: https://mann.library.cornell.edu/full-hours . It will be on display in the Mann Library Gallery through August 15, 2025.

This event has been postponed until fall 2025.

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Join the Einaudi Center and researchers from across campus for three-minute speed talks and community conversation on ways to organize and push back against fast-moving federal actions.

Speakers will jump off from interdisciplinary and international research to provide a fresh perspective on current U.S. public policy and the potential for effective collective action. Together we'll look at challenges faced and solutions found in a variety of academic fields and places around the world—to help us think through how to unify disparate interests and find allies to resist democratic backsliding.

The event features clusters of speed talks on related topics, with time for Q&A and conversation on each topic.

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Speakers

David A. Bateman | GovernmentSidney Tarrow (IES) | GovernmentPrisca Jöst | Public Policy

More speakers to be confirmed.

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Sponsors

This conversation is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, partnering with Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy's Governance and Local Development Institute and Data and Democracy Lab.

Find out how graduate and undergraduate students can get started at Einaudi.