NEXT LUNCHES:
PRIOR LUNCHES:
September 17, noon, 340 Duffield Hall
Topic: South America: producing a blueprint for a green continent
Please RSVP to Paula Euvrard AND to the organizer: Rick Allmendinger.
September 10, noon, Ramin Parlor, Sage Hall
Topic: The Private Sector's Role in Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development
Please RSVP to Paula Euvrard AND to the organizer: Mark Milstein
September 3, noon, 300 Rice Hall
Topic: Climate Change and Disease Ecology
Please RSVP to Paula Euvrard AND to the organizer: Drew Harvell.
August 27, noon, 300 Rice Hall
Topic: Adaptively Managing for Sustainable Resource Use: Challenges and Opportunities
Please RSVP to Paula Euvrard AND to the organizer: Evan Cooch.
Followup Report: CCSF_Lunch_Summary_cooch.pdf
August 20, noon, 300 Rice Hall.
Topic: Assessing climate change vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies for agriculture and water resources in New York
Please RSVP to Paula Euvrard AND to the organizer: Art DeGaetano.
Followup Report: CCSF_lunch_summary_atd.pdf
July 16, noon, 300 Rice Hall.
Topic: Improving the Stability and Productivity of Algal Bioreactors for Biofuel Production
Please RSVP to Paula Euvrard AND to the organizer: Beth Ahner.
Followup Report: Improving_the_Stability_and_Productivity_of_Algal_Bioreactors-for_Biofuel_Production.pdf
July 2, noon, 133 Emerson Hall.
Topic: Resource-based assessment of environmental conservation
Please RSVP to Paula Euvrard AND to the organizer: Steven Wolf.
Followup Report: Resource-based_assessment_of_environmental_conservation_report.pdf
June 4, noon, 300 Rice Hall.
Topic: Mycotoxins
Please RSVP to Paula Euvrard AND to one or both of the organizers (mgm5@cornell.edu and rjn7@cornell.edu).
Followup Report: Mycotoxins_report.pdf
The Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future seeks to bring together and provide seed funding to researchers from across campus who might form teams to tackle important problems in energy, environment and economic development that are likely to have tangible societal impacts. Our goal is to connect scholars working on related topics but in different Colleges or disciplines to catalyze exciting new research with significant potential for future funding, impact and external partnerships.
CCSF hopes to draw researchers together through informal, working lunches on a specific theme aimed at fostering interactions ("intellectual collisions" if you will) between scholars in cluster areas of interdisciplinary research where we perceive Cornell to have a latent but unrealized comparative advantage. At a minimum, the lunches offer an opportunity for interesting discussions. Some (we hope many) will identify useful opportunities for new collaboration and thereby launch new research.
As such, we expect to have two dates per month (beginning immediately) for which CCSF will provide a modest lunch and facilitate discussion and information exchange. We encourage you to propose a specific topic and to recruit 5-10 faculty, possibly including a couple of key students or postdocs. CCSF directors, the faculty advisory committee, and others will also be invited. Our goal would be to have 10-20 participants, primarily people who are not currently collaborating with one another. These lunches are very informal. After one of the CCSF Directors briefly introduces CCSF and the goal of these working lunches, the floor would be yours for a very short presentation (a simple oral discussion or perhaps 6-8 PowerPoint slides maximum) introducing 1) the major sustainability issue, 2) Cornell's diversity, strength or weakness in the area, 3) discussion points, 4) possible external partners (for funding, outreach and/or research) and ways to generate impact.
The idea is to have open discussion to see what sparks fly. If you are interested in "hosting" such a lunch please contact us. To discuss topics and possible scheduling dates, contact Anurag Agrawal aa337@cornell.edu. For details regarding already scheduled events contact Paula Euvrard pge3@cornell.edu.