I’ve been overwhelmed lately with videos featuring Department faculty, staff, students and programs. Normally I’d feature them individually. But instead I’m clearing out the backlog.
Assistant professor Justine Vanden Heuvel is featured in a video from the President’s Council of Cornell Women. PCCW is a group of highly accomplished alumnae working to enhance the involvement of women students, faculty, staff, and alumnae as leaders within Cornell University and its many communities.
In 2008, Justine received a PCCW Affinito-Stewart Grant to support her work predicting flavors and aromas in wine (“Creating Grapevine Canopy Exposure Maps to Predict Fruit and Wine Quality”). Justine has developed computational tools that can be used in the vineyard midway through the growing season to help predict what the flavors and aromas will be in the final product, the wine, which she explains in this CornellCast video.
Here are some more recent videos:
- Excavation of tree growing in CU-structural soil – Now available online, this UHI video reveals benefits of CU-structural soil to street tree roots.
- Vermicompost a Living Soil Amendment – Technician Betsy Leonard plays a role (starting around the 2:50 mark) in this award-winning video by the Cornell Waste Management Institute.
- Biodiversity, Ecocomplexity and the Human Experience – In this lecture supporting the Cornell’s New Student Reading Project, Tom Whitlow considers whether Philip Dick’s post-apocalyptic Earth in his book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — a world largely devoid of organisms that are alive in the biological sense — is all that different from our world.
- Climate, Grapes, and Wine: Structure and Suitability in a Variable and Changing Climate – The latest Horticulture in a Changing Climate seminar video to go online. See all horticulture seminar videos.
- Cornell sustainable landscapes – Two new webinars: Fall is for planting featuring Nina Bassuk and 2010 Growing Season Wrap-Up with Dawn Dailey O’Brien.
- The Traveling Tulip – A January 24 Mann Library Light In Winter presentation by Chad Miller (Ph.D. ’10).
And finally, in CU in the Kitchen: Fall Harvest Dinner with Steve Miller, Cornell Senior Executive Chef Steven Miller showcases preparations for the 5th Annual Fall Harvest Dinner, featuring local, regional, and New York State produce, dairy products, beef, and much more. Click on video to right to view excerpt where Miller extols the virtues of sweet corn and potatoes from the Homer C. Thompson Research Farm in Freeville, N.Y.