In collaboration with Cornell’s Adult University (CAU), Giulia is offering Cornell alumni, their families and friends various courses online, on the Ithaca campus, and educational vacations to Greece. For more information please visit https://sce.cornell.edu/travel/trips
Summer 2024 – JOURNEY TO GREECE: Exploring Culture, Nature & Contemporary Life
May 30 – June 9, 2024
Trip to Greece
May 30 – June 9, 2024
This 11-day exclusive-to-Cornell study tour brings you into the gardens, farms, fields, and forests of Greece, as well as to historic sites in the regions of Pelion and Crete. Humans have looked to nature for healing purposes since ancient times, but with ecosystems under increased threat, biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate. Every time a plant species becomes extinct, millions of years of evolution, and a potential pharmacological factory, is lost forever. This study tour will reveal the world of wonders and complexity of plant chemical compounds to uncover their potential for solutions to health, dietary and sustainable issues.
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Spring 2023 – Introducing CAU Education Vacation
Trip to Greece
April 1 – 10, 2023
In ancient Greece, scholars and medical practitioners recognized the value of herbal remedies and used them widely in their practice. Greece is blessed with an unusually rich flora that contains over 6,000 species of plants, of which about 17% are endemic. This journey aims to introduce travelers to the rich world of the medicinal plants of Greece and their use. In this quest, we will focus on two regions that are especially endowed in medicinal plants: Pelion and Crete. Both happen also to be two of the country’s most magnificent places. Athens, the vibrant capital of Greece, renowned for its monuments dating from the city’s Golden Age, the 5th century BC, is also included in our schedule.
This learning journey includes a variety of activities, including classroom based lectures, meetings with and learning from local herbalists and pharmacologists, exploring the natural habitat of medicinal herbs, and touring ancient sites.
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Winter 2021 – CAU Virtual Education Vacation Program – Medical Ethnobotany: Natural Remedies Around the Globe
Explore the world of traditional medicine
January 11 – 15, 2021, via zoom
A weeklong online course delivered via daily live lectures through Zoom. Plants have served as medicinal agents since the beginning of civilization and are still critical constituents of modern drugs or templates for synthetic molecules used to make today’s medicines. In this weeklong online course, we’ll learn about many plant-based natural remedies used across the globe and across millennia, considering their efficacy, modes of action, and effects on our body while expanding our understanding of the natural world, traditional medicine, and human diversity.
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Summer 2021 – CAU Campus Summer Course – Plant Medicine & Health
Plant Medicine & Health
In this weeklong course you will be introduced to ethnobotany, to its current challenges and threats, emphasizing the importance of the preservation of traditional knowledge and native languages.
The course will include classroom-based lectures, a tour of the Cornell Botanic Garden and of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Herbarium with hands on activities, optional study material, and many lively discussions.
Course highlights:
- Learn about ancient plant-based remedies and their connection to modern pharmaceuticals.
- Discover relationships between plants and native people in various parts of the world.
- Develop your understanding of medical practices, values, and beliefs across time and cultures.
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Summer 2020 – CAU Virtual Summer, Online course Medical Ethnobotany
Medical Ethnobotany
July 20 – July 24, 2020
A weeklong online course delivered via the web-based learning system Canvas and a live lecture through Zoom. Plants have served as medicinal agents since the beginning of civilization and are still critical constituents of modern drugs or templates for synthetic molecules used to make today’s medicines. In this weeklong online course, we’ll learn about plant-based natural remedies used across the globe and across millennia considering their efficacy, modes of action, and effects on our body while expanding our understanding of the natural world, traditional medicine, and human diversity. The course will include my recorded lectures, optional study material, a virtual tour of the Cornell Botanic Garden, and many online discussions open to all.
Live lecture and discussion Friday, July 24, 11:00 a.m. EDT
View recording of this webinar.
