Join Dr. Jennifer Nagashima ‘09, PhD ‘15, the first graduate of the Cornell-Smithsonian Joint Graduate Training Program (JGTP), offering students dual mentorship and research opportunities at the National Zoo's Conservation Biology Institute and Dr. Alex Travis VMD, PhD, Chair, Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, Director, Cornell Public Health in a candid conversation. They will discuss the trailblazing conservation research that has come out of the joint program, and explore the intricate connections between conservation, ecosystem integrity, climate change, emergence of infectious diseases across species, and the critical roles animals play in buffering disease transmission.

Join us for an engaging conversation with Christie Avgar and Professor David Silbey as they highlight the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy’s growing presence in Washington, D.C. Building on the Cornell in Washington program’s decades of success, the Brooks School has launched DC Start, a major new initiative to amplify Cornell’s presence and impact in Washington, DC. DC Start is a distinctive new residential academic experience offered to first-year undergraduate students majoring in public policy and health care policy housed at the Wolpe building near Embassy Row and Dupont Circle. The program which launched this fall offers an inspiring, immersive public policy learning experience for undergraduates. The Brooks School is also redesigning its signature internship program, now called DC Connect, and launching other new initiatives aimed at strengthen ties between the Cornell Ithaca campus and Washington DC, including the new Brooks School Connecting Cornell to Congress initiative.