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X-WR-CALNAME:Ithaca · education · Monday · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Going to Gone: Earth's Biodiversity Loss and What We Can Do About It DTSTART:20260921T120000Z DTEND:20260921T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260807T040211Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51209682852059 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:The teeming diversity of life on our Pale Blue Dot—planet Ea rth—is under grave threat from the impact of our own activity\, and biol ogists are raising the alarm about accelerating rates of decline in the pl ant and animal species of our world\, with sobering implications for the l ong-term health and well-being of human communities. But if we are the mai n drivers of biodiversity decline\, we also have the power to change the t rend. \n\nOrganized by Cornell University Library\, Going to Gone features illustrations from historical studies of our natural world found in the l ibrary’s collections and reflects on the looming possibility of a “Six th Extinction” on Earth. The exhibit identifies some of the key factors behind the decline of animal species in the 21st century. It also highligh ts emerging research insights and conservation efforts to give us hope and conviction that preserving the biodiversity of our beautiful planet is wi thin our grasp.\n\nThis exhibit is concurrent with related exhibits at Man n Library: Last Call: Bird Decline and the Threat of Extinction\, and Keep ing Common Birds Common: Birds and Habitat at Cornell Botanic Gardens and Beyond. \n\nJoin us for an opening celebration for these exhibits on Thur sday\, April 16\, with a lecture by Cornell Lab of Ornithology researcher Jordan Boersma on "Finding Hope in the Search for Lost Birds" at 4:00 p.m. in Mann Room 160\, and a reception at 5:00 p.m. in the Mann Library Galle ry. All are welcome!\n\n \n\nOther related events include:\n\n“Birds and Blooms” monthly bird and habitat tours\, starting April 17 with Cornell Botanic Gardens and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Register at cornellbo tanicgardens.org.\n\n“Keeping Our Common Birds Common” hybrid lecture April 26\, 3:00 p.m.\, by Douglas Tallamy\, professor of entomology and wi ldlife ecology in the University of Delaware\, presented by Cornell Botani c Gardens\, at Call Auditorium\, Kennedy Hall by zoom (registration requir ed).\n\nBiodiversity Fest\, Thursday\, September 24:\, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p .m. in the Mann Library lobby. Come find out about efforts being made by d epartments\, programs and student groups across campus to sustain the dive rsity of life on planet Earth!\n\nGoing to Gone is part of a series of exh ibits titled From the Brink: Contributions to a Sustainable Future from ac ross Cornell\, hosted by different libraries across Cornell University Lib rary in close partnership with other departments and groups on campus. LAST-MODIFIED:20260807T040211Z LOCATION:Mann Library\, Mann Lobby URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/declining-biodiversity-exhibit?utm_so urce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=ithaca-ny X-SOURCE-NAME:Cornell Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.cornell.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Six Seasons\, Four Summers: How To Solve Fashion’s High Heat Pro blem DTSTART:20260921T130000Z DTEND:20260921T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T002615Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53993337527623 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:New research from Cornell ILR School's Global Labor Institute finds that most investments in cooling for Bangladesh's apparel factories and in workers’ homes are commercially viable.\n\nJoin us for a first lo ok at the findings and a discussion of what they mean for climate adaptati on among apparel workers in Bangladesh and beyond. Our panel includes Jaso n Judd and Sarah Krasley from Cornell’s Global Labor Institute\, Tareq R obin of YGEN Engineering\, and others.\n\nWhat You'll Learn\n\nThe scope a nd impact of a seven-month heat stress season affecting apparel workers' h ealth\, productivity\, and recovery time\, both in factories and at homeWh y most cooling interventions in Bangladesh's apparel factories are commerc ially viableWhy the Global Labor Institute and co-authors from BRAC Univer sity\, the Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity\, and YGEN Engineering are calling on brands\, manufacturers\, governments\, and international in stitutions to finance climate adaptationHow investments in cooling\, stron ger workplace heat standards\, and support for living wages and social pro tection systems can help protect workers from rising heat risks\nSpeakers: \n\nJason Judd\nExecutive Director\, Global Labor Institute\, Cornell ILR School\n\n\n\nSarah Krasley\nVisiting Fellow/Founder of Shimmy Technologie s\, Cornell ILR Global Labor Institute LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T002615Z URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/six-seasons-four-summers-how-to-solve -fashions-high-heat-problem?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_cam paign=ithaca-ny X-SOURCE-NAME:Cornell Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.cornell.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CHEME7900 Seminar: Derek Bartlett (UNC) DTSTART:20260921T130500Z DTEND:20260921T140500Z DTSTAMP:20260918T002615Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53763012309853 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Alternative route found: Leveraging microfluidics and mathemat ical modeling to navigate translational drug discovery and development\n\n Biological systems are inherently dynamic\, and static measurements are of ten insufficient to capture the complex temporal interplay between drug ex posure (pharmacokinetics\, PK) and biological response (pharmacodynamics\, PD). Nevertheless\, current preclinical experimental approaches remain li mited in their ability to systematically investigate these dynamic PK-PD r elationships. Most in vitro studies\, for example\, rely on constant drug concentrations that fail to recapitulate the time-varying exposure profile s observed in vivo. Animal studies can provide valuable PK-PD insights\, b ut species-specific differences in drug disposition and pharmacological re sponse often limit their translational relevance to human patients. To bri dge these gaps\, mathematical models have become increasingly important wi thin model-informed drug development frameworks. While such models are pow erful tools for predicting drug behavior and informing decision-making\, t heir success depends on experimental systems that can generate data tailor ed for model parameterization and validation. To address this need\, we ha ve developed a custom microfluidic perfusion platform capable of exposing cells to precisely controlled\, physiologically relevant drug concentratio n profiles. By integrating these fit-for-purpose microfluidic assays with mechanistic PK-PD and quantitative systems pharmacology models\, our rese arch seeks to expand the translational PK-PD toolbox\, reduce reliance on animal studies\, and improve the likelihood of clinical success for invest igational therapeutics. In this seminar\, I will provide an overview of th is platform and highlight its application to the design and translation of proximity-inducing drugs and molecularly targeted cancer therapeutics.\n \n\nBio: Derek Bartlett is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharm acotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics within the Eshelman School of Pha rmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a BS degree in chemical engineering from Stanford University and M.S. and Ph.D . degrees in chemical engineering from Caltech. At Caltech\, his dissertat ion research in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Davis focused on the developmen t of targeted delivery vehicles for siRNA therapeutics. Following postdoct oral training in cancer immunotherapeutics and radiation oncology at City of Hope under the guidance of Dr. Andrew Raubitschek\, he spent 15 years w orking within the pharmaceutical industry across a variety of functions in cluding formulation\, process development\, quantitative systems pharmacol ogy\, and translational modeling and simulation. During this time\, he led conjugation process development for antibody-based molecular imaging agen ts\, developed mechanistic PK-PD models for drug modalities including bisp ecific T cell engagers and targeted protein degraders\, helped create nove l vaccine adjuvants\, and spearheaded the design and implementation of mic rofluidic PK-PD assays for drug discovery programs. His research group at UNC builds upon this foundation by combining mechanistic PK-PD modeling an d microfluidic assays as an animal-alternative approach to guide the desig n and translational development of proximity-inducing drugs\, antibody-dru g conjugates\, and molecularly targeted therapeutics. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T002615Z LOCATION:Olin Hall\, 155 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/cheme7900-seminar-derek-bartlett-unc? utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=ithaca-ny X-SOURCE-NAME:Cornell Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.cornell.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) Seminar Series: P hysically Grounded Robot Learning for Open-World Dexterous Manipulation - Kuan Fang DTSTART:20260921T160000Z DTEND:20260921T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T002615Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53975759521008 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:This seminar is a hybrid event. REGISTRATION REQUIRED for Zoom : https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/-0ykm8BfSx66jzv9w-ImMg \n\nAbst ract: \n\nRobots working in factories and homes will need to perform dext erous manipulation for diverse task goals in unstructured environments. Su ch open-world dexterous manipulation hinges on contact-rich and dynamic ph ysical interactions that are difficult to perceive\, specify\, and control . Today's robot learning systems treat physical interaction implicitly\, e xpecting physical understanding to emerge from scaling data and models\, w ith little evidence of when or whether it will. In this talk\, I present o ur recent progress toward physically grounded robot learning\, in which ex plicit yet learnable representations of physical interaction underlie how manipulation skills are specified\, learned\, transferred\, and improved. First\, I will present a framework that grounds high-level task specificat ions into structured spatial representations of interaction\, which enable s a mobile manipulator to generalize across environments\, task objectives \, and forms of user input. Second\, I will present an approach that decou ples embodiment-agnostic task reasoning from embodiment-specific motor con trol through contact-based interaction intents\, which enables zero-shot s kill transfer across structurally different robot hands and from human dem onstrations. Third\, I will present a data-generation engine that expands a single human demonstration into millions of diverse\, physically validat ed training examples\, which enables robust functional dexterous grasping of novel objects. Together\, these results suggest that anchoring learning in physical interaction offers a scalable path toward generalizable dexte rity in the open world.\n\nBio: \n\nKuan Fang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research draws on robotics\, machine learning\, and computer vision to enable robots that acquire\, tra nsfer\, and continually improve their skills in the open world. Before joi ning Cornell\, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and a resea rcher at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from\nStanford University and his bachelor's degree from Tsinghua Universi ty. His research has been recognized with the Best Paper Awards of IEEE RA -L and ICRA\, a Computing Innovation Fellowship\, and faculty research awa rds from Amazon and NVIDIA.\n\nBackground on the Cornell Institute for Dig ital Agriculture: \n\nAn interdisciplinary group of Cornell University fa culty began meeting in early 2017 to formulate an Initiative for Digital A griculture\, believing that Cornell is uniquely equipped to lead in this e merging arena that will benefit the public for generations. We define DA t o mean the application of computational and information technologies coupl ed with nanotechnology\, biology\, systems engineering and economics to bo th the research and operational sides of agriculture and food production. With approximately 100 faculty from 5 Cornell colleges participating\, we are collaborating with external stakeholders to shape and implement a rese arch agenda for DA that will build a pipeline of discovery and innovations for the next 10+ years. Please contact Gabriela Cestero at gc423@cornell .edu with any questions. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T002615Z LOCATION:computing and information sciences building\, 250 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/cornell-institute-for-digital-agricul ture-cida-seminar-series-kuan-fang?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics& utm_campaign=ithaca-ny X-SOURCE-NAME:Cornell Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.cornell.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Design\, User Strategy for Human Centered Design DTSTART:20260921T185500Z DTEND:20260921T201000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T002615Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53983366003387 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Caroline Pieracci is a UX writer and Content Systems Architect at Google\, specializing in digital product taxonomy\, language systems\, and human-centered design. With Master’s degrees in both Sociology and Design\, she brings a unique dual perspective to user experience—combini ng structural design methodologies with a deep understanding of social dyn amics and organizational behavior. \n\nHaving designed language systems\, digital governance models\, and product architectures for market leaders —including Google\, UBS\, T-Mobile\, IWC Schaffhausen\, Mercedes-Benz\, and Audi—Pieracci works at the intersection of cross-functional alignmen t\, systems strategy\, and interface language to help enterprise organizat ions scale complex products seamlessly.\n\nThis talk is a special Nixon Se minar in the Department of Human Centered Design. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T002615Z LOCATION:Martha Van Rensselaer Hall\, 1106 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/design-user-strategy-for-human-center ed-design?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=ithaca-ny X-SOURCE-NAME:Cornell Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.cornell.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Department of Physics Colloquium\, Professor Brad Ramshaw\, Cornel l University DTSTART:20260921T200000Z DTEND:20260921T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260828T120217Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53692312663228 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:General Physics Colloquium\, Professor Brad Ramshaw\, Cornell University\n\nTitle: The Sounds of Science: Using Ultrasound to Discover Hidden Quantum Order\n\nHost: Dan Ralph\n\nAbstract: A sound wave trave ling through a crystal lattice is akin to a gravity wave traveling through space: both locally distort the geometry through which particles move. Un like space\, however\, crystals are densely populated with electrons whose collective behaviour responds sensitively to these distortions. As a resu lt\, ultrasound can provide deep insights into emergent quantum phenomena. \n\nOver the past decade\, my group has developed and revitalized ultrason ic techniques to study quantum materials\, uncovering new insights into su perconductivity\, magnetism\, and topological states of matter. Using this approach\, we have probed the symmetry of the superconducting order param eter in UTe2\, a leading candidate topological superconductor\, revealing both unexpected simplicity and\, under pressure\, the emergence of remarka bly unconventional superconducting phases. We have also developed a new ul trasound-based experiment that reveals chiral phonon dynamics and establis hes connections between phonon Berry curvature and quantum magnetism.\n\n\ nI will conclude by discussing the directions my group is currently pursui ng\, the broader role of quantum materials in modern condensed matter phys ics\, and how we can balance the complementary goals of fundamental unders tanding and technological impact. LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T120217Z LOCATION:Physical Sciences Building\, 120 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/department-of-physics-colloquium-prof essor-brad-ramshaw-cornell-university?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=i cs&utm_campaign=ithaca-ny X-SOURCE-NAME:Cornell Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.cornell.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spring Break Sustainability Education Policy Program in Ecuador In fo Session DTSTART:20260921T204500Z DTEND:20260921T214500Z DTSTAMP:20260807T040211Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53479319803115 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring brea k travel\, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quit o (USFQ)\, National University of Singapore (NUS)\, and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This collaborative onlin e international learning (COIL) and community-based global learning (CBGL) course allows a unique exchange as highlighted the photo essays from our 2025 program. The program invites Cornell students to explore the complexi ties of education policy and practice in the United States and Ecuador wit h students and faculty from USFQ and NUS as well as with teachers\, admini strators\, and policy makers in both contexts. LAST-MODIFIED:20260807T040211Z LOCATION:Martha Van Rensselaer Hall\, 2250 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sustainability-education-policy-progr am-in-ecuador-info-session?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_camp aign=ithaca-ny X-SOURCE-NAME:Cornell Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.cornell.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Winter-Spring Program in Ecuador Info Session DTSTART:20260921T204500Z DTEND:20260921T214500Z DTSTAMP:20260918T002615Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53993727398367 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Find out more about our winter program exploring the Tiputini Biological Station in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon in Ecuador. T ropical forests have a stunning array of diversity\, and adaptations to st rong species interactions\, while species in alpine ecosystems have highly -specialized adaptations to challenging environmental conditions. To study this gradient\, students will embark on a field course spanning multiple biogeographic regions in Ecuador\, a region that boasts some the highest d egrees of species diversity and endemism. This program will involve travel in January to the Amazon followed by synthesizing those field observation s fduring the first seven weeks of spring upon return. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T002615Z URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/winter-spring-program-in-ecuador-info ?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=ithaca-ny X-SOURCE-NAME:Cornell Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.cornell.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meetup: Project Management & Team Effectiveness: Turning Id eas into Progress DTSTART:20260921T210000Z DTEND:20260921T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T002615Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53994682254107 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Why do some teams and clubs seem to get things done seamlessly while others get stuck in unproductive meetings and last-minute chaos? Gr eat projects don’t happen by accident\; they require thoughtful planning \, clear communication\, and effective teamwork. This interactive presenta tion explores practical tools for breaking complex projects into manageabl e steps\, building and motivating teams\, navigating common team challenge s\, and keeping projects moving forward\n\n \n\nIn collaboration with Lisa Gerber of Dyson Grand Challenges\, the Einhorn Center for Community Engag ement welcomes all students to this Monday Meet-Up on project management. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T002615Z LOCATION:Kennedy Hall\, 300 Kennedy Hall\, The Engaged Hub URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/monday-meetup-project-management-team -effectiveness-turning-ideas-into-progress?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_med ium=ics&utm_campaign=ithaca-ny X-SOURCE-NAME:Cornell Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.cornell.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR