The three-day professional development event for extension educators and practitioners desgined to gain an understanding of how Cornell Human Ecology engages in the Land Grant mission; build relationships across the extension system; and connect with Cornell faculty and staff, community partners, Cornell Cooperative Extension leadership and Cornell students. Visit the link to the website for […]

Part of the Community Neuroscience Initiative's Accessible Lecture Series. Dr. Sebastian Alvarado will lead a discussion on plasticity in popular fiction and the hard science behind them using the African cichlid as an example. Dr. Alvarado is an assistant professor of biology at City University of New York (CUNY) Queen’s College, investigating the genome’s response […]

Part of the BCTR's Talks at Twelve Series. Land use policy, racial planning processes and unjust development practices orchestrate the present-day realities in the City of Jackson, Mississippi: a predominately Black school district burdened by the legacies of racial segregation and harassed by racial inequities embedded into the landscape of the city. The Jackson Public […]

Part of the BCTR's Talks at Twelve Series. Alzheimer's disease is not only a disease of old age. It begins decades earlier in the brainstem, in a small group of cells - the locus coeruleus - that supply the entire brain with a crucial modulatory neurotransmitter involved in sleep, stress and focus. Dr. Riley's research […]

Part of the CNI Accessible Neuroscience Lecture Series. Dr. Kelli Duncan from Vassar College studies how hormones repair the brain following traumatic brain injury (TBI). She will share how brain structure changes during development, experience, and disease during her talk. Come to this talk to learn about the brain’s adaptability, which can be a strength […]