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See how our current work and research is bringing new thinking and new solutions to some of today's biggest challenges.

• Agriculture
• Applied Economics
• Climate Change
• Communication
• Environment
• Global Development
• Health + Nutrition

Downloading our logos? Review our guide first.

Our wordmark comes in a variety of logo orientations to fit your need. Please review how to properly use the Cornell CALS wordmark in your designs , to adhere to minimum size requirements, spacing and other necessary details to preserve our brand's integrity. 

• Cornell CALS
• Cornell AgriTech
• Fonts, Colors & Photography

Official Cornell CALS wordmarks are available to download for print and web use by members of the Cornell University community. For department-specific resources and logo variations, please reach out to  cals-comm [at] cornell.edu (cals-comm[at]cornell[dot]edu)  to learn more.

Visit  Cornell University Brand Center  for guidelines relating to use of the university seal. This is also the best place to refer to  all related policies  that apply to the use of branding elements that represent the university, its colleges, schools and units, Cornell CALS included.

Print (EPS)

Print (JPG)

Here’s a quick general guide:

I’m not sure which wordmark variation I should use. Read more about the  wordmark variations  or contact us directly at  cals-comm [at] cornell.edu (cals-comm[at]cornell[dot]edu) .

I’m creating something for digital or screen display, like a presentation, video, image or document that will primarily be seen online. Use PNG or JPG files. PNG files are ideal for digital documents such as web pages, digital presentations and for video. Their transparent backgrounds make them especially useful for places where a transparent background is required (like over a field of color). PNGs also won’t get grainy or blurry when uploaded. JPGs will also work really well on the web provided they are not too large in file size.

I’m using Microsoft Office or another word or layout editor to create something to print out, like a letter or informal flyer. Use JPGs for Word documents that you intend to print, or for any projects that require printing at a low-to-medium resolution.

I’m creating something really nice or big for an event, for marketing, or for a big sign. Go with EPS files. They’re designed to produce high-resolution graphics for print, and you can scale EPS files and they won’t lose resolution. EPS files, much like PDFs, can be opened in several different applications, including but not limited to Adobe Creative Cloud products.

Still not sure?  Reach out  to us!

Photography Collection

To help with our community’s storytelling efforts, we’ve developed a broad collection of imagery from across our college — thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images taken in our new brand style. This royalty-free collection is available to all CALS faculty and staff through a section of the main  please let us know . All CALS faculty and staff can access these images through the Cornell Photo image library , once they’ve logged in to the system with their Cornell NetID and password.

Important access details:

• If it's your first time logging in to the archive, it may take a short time for the system to process your request.
• Your access to the Cornell Photo image library is assigned by your university employment status upon the first time you log in to their system. If you first logged in as a non-CALS employee, you may experience some difficulty viewing the CALS brand photography collection.
• For any access issues:  Contact the system administrator at  widen-support [at] cornell.edu (widen-support[at]cornell[dot]edu) . Please allow a response window of 2-3 business days for a response.

Time-sensitive photo needs:  Contact CALS Marketing and Communications

• If you are experiencing issues and have a time-sensitive photo need, please reach out to us at  cals-comm [at] cornell.edu (cals-comm[at]cornell[dot]edu) . We will be in touch as soon as possible.

CALS PowerPoint (Blank Template)

Two slide decks included with red or white backgrounds.  (Note: You have to download each zip file; you will not be able to preview the files within Box).

CALS Overview Slide Deck

For presentations, we have developed a slide deck about CALS with slides that explain the university, our location and our impact in New York and around the world. (Note: these are large 22 MB files).

Insert them into your slide decks as needed and  check out our tips for use .  (Note: You have to download each zip file; you will not be able to preview the files within Box.)

CALS Digital Letterhead

Cornell CALS digital letterhead template for Microsoft Word.

Be sure to update the information in the footer to reflect your contact details.

• Mac version

Business Cards, Print Letterhead & Envelopes

Order via  Cornell Print Services .

Cornell CALS business cards, print letterhead and envelopes are available for order through Cornell Print Services. You can also order Cornell AgriTech and PRO-DAIRY business cards through their online service. You will have to log in to their ordering system and navigate to Cornell CALS catalog section to view and select these products. 

CALS Email Signature

Download the digital template for Microsoft Outlook (do not copy from the Box preview). Format text in Arial at size 9pt.

• Add preferred pronouns below name (e.g. she/her/hers, they/them/theirs, etc.)
• Add official social media below email and web address
• Add tagline “Life. Changing.” below signature block

CALS Computer Desktop Backgrounds

Choose from several dozen desktop backgrounds (dimensions: 1920px x 1080px) featuring images from the CALS Brand Photo Collection.

How to Install : From the download link, select which image you’d like to display and download it to your desktop. Right click on the image on your desktop and set it as your desktop picture.

• High Resolution JPGS

Having trouble ? Here are some helpful instructions for creating your desktop background on a:

CALS Zoom Backgrounds

Choose from more than 20 Zoom virtual meeting backgrounds  featuring nostalgic images from campus, also featured in the Cornell CALS Brand Photo Collection. How to Install : From the download link, select which image you’d like to display and download it to your desktop. From there, follow the Zoom virtual background set-up instructions.

Having trouble ? Visit the Zoom troubleshooting overview for support. 

Cornell AgriTech Logos

Cornel AgriTech PowerPoint (Blank Template)

One slide deck included with white backgrounds. 

Cornell AgriTech Digital Letterhead

Cornell AgriTech digital letterhead template for Microsoft Word.

Cornell AgriTech Email Signature

• Add tagline “Grow with us.” below signature block

Both the Cornell CALS and Cornell AgriTech brands utilize the same color palette, branded fonts and photography collection, also available for download below:

Color Palette

• Print : Adobe Creative Suite
• Web : HEX, RBG

Lora and Work Sans are free, publicly available typefaces.

After downloading the fonts and unzipping the TTF files, please follow the directions under How to add or install a new font. *Please note that we also accept Georgia and Arial as font alternatives in e-mail marketing tools that don't have Lora and Work Sans available. 

How to add or install a new font:

• Click Start
• Click Computer
• In the Computer box, double-click on the C: drive to open
• Open the Windows folder
• Open the Fonts folder
• Copy and paste the TTF files into the Fonts box.  (Note: Some may be required in this step to install each downloaded font weight one-by-one).

For alternative instructions, please visit the  Microsoft support website .

• In the Finder, choose Go > Applications
• Open Font Book
• Choose Add Fonts from the File menu
• Select the font or a folder containing multiple fonts, then click Open to install the font(s)

For additional information, please visit the  Apple Support website .

CALS Brand Photography Collection

To help with our community’s storytelling efforts, we’ve developed a broad collection of imagery from across our college — thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images taken in our new brand style. This royalty-free collection is available to all CALS faculty and staff through a section of the main  please let us know . All CALS faculty and staff can access these images through  the   Cornell Photo image library , once they’ve logged in to the system with their Cornell NetID and password.

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Engineering CUP Awards: Cornell University Presentations

The CUP Awards competition invites engaging, unique, insightful technical presentations from undergraduates. Engineering and technical work has no force or presence unless it's communicated well; to that end, the CUP Awards aim to recognize students who create powerful presentations about their engineering projects. Undergraduates from the current academic year are invited to participate.

Cornell’s College of Engineering and the Engineering Communications Program invites undergraduate individuals and teams to be considered for three separate awards for presentations. Winning students will earn both a monetary award and full recognition from the College of Engineering and Cornell University. 

The Roger K. Berman Oral Presentation Award (for individual speakers; new topical theme each year). 

The Fuertes Medal Memorial Prize for Public Speaking (for teams). 

The Douglas Whitney Prize for Engineering Student Presentations  (for individual speakers or teams).

The goal of the Engineering CUP Awards is to highlight undergraduate work within the College of Engineering, showcasing the importance of strong communication for any technical endeavor. Presenters will benefit, too, from the training, advice, and guidance offered by training workshops and feedback.

These competitions all come with cash awards. The categories of awards listed below allowed for extraordinary students to be recognized for their high levels of presentation prowess, even in the most trying of years.

The process for submission will be outlined with each award. The categories of awards listed below allowed for extraordinary students to be recognized for their high levels of presentation prowess.

The Roger K. Berman Oral Presentation Award

Fall 2023: the indispensable condition.

(use the above link to access the topic and the list of winners)

2019-2020 Winners

Presenter: Issah Madugu  Title: Engineering’s Role in Social Justice Madugu presented compelling a thoughtful collection of reasons that engineering should be rooted in—and responsive to—social justice at its very core. 

Presenter: Isabelle DiGiacomo  Title: LaTeX for Technical Communication DiGiacomo expertly and confidently synthesized core aspects of LaTeX within a frame of technical and engineering communication workflows. This work will soon be featured on the Cornell Help for Engineering Communication (CHEC) website . 

History of This Award

The Roger K. Berman Oral Presentation Award is given to one or more outstanding individual undergraduate speakers per academic school year. Student participants must be a declared majors in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. This competition is not available to MEng or PhD students.

With a new theme guiding submissions each year, presentation topics can be linked to a Cornell undergraduate engineering course or a College of Engineering Project Team. Students can also enter as an individual apart from coursework or formal university project teams. 

Roger K. Berman was a founding member of the advisory council for the Engineering Communications Program. He had a lifelong interest in effective communications, manifested in part during his student days at Cornell University when he served as editor of the Cornell Engineer . In his work at Bellcore, he saw how well communications skills served young engineers, and he believed that his participation on the communications council was one way in which he might help shape the education of students in the college.

In 1994, a fund was endowed in memory of Roger Berman, honoring his memory and his desire for engineers to succeed and excel. The prize will be awarded annually to a student enrolled in the Engineering Communications Program for best oral presentation.

The Fuertes Medal Memorial Prize for Public Speaking: Topics and Requirements

In the spring of 2024, ecp is sponsoring uspark: undergraduate scholars present about research and knowledge (uspark) 2024: living labs edition . .

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Team Presenters: Abby Adams, Donovan Flood, Sandhya Ganesan, Maho Koga Title: Modeling of Drying Phase of Lyophilization of the Ebola Virus Disease Vaccine Course:  partner courses BEE 4530 | Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biological Processes and ENGRC 4530 | Communication for Computer-Aided Engineering

This was a great presentation in terms of using the assertion/evidence slide construction taught in the class. Many slides used animations or shapes to draw the audience’s attention to specific parts of a graph or formula. All of the speakers used a professional tone and volume. Overall, the presentation flowed well and showed evidence of practice as well as careful slide design.

Team Presenters: Dave Chen, Evan Cheng, Mitchell Scott Title: Whole Ovary Vitrification Protocol  Team Presenters: Dave Chen, Evan Cheng, Mitchell Scott Course: partner courses BEE 4530 | Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biological Processes and ENGRC 4530 | Communication for Computer-Aided Engineering

For this work, both the speakers and the slide design were excellent, allowing the complex technical information about modeling the cryopreservation of a human ovary to be clearly communicated. The visuals were engaging, as were the speakers. The team expertly used the assertion/evidence structure for slide design, allowing the speakers and information to shine.                                                                                       ---

Team Presenters: Maggie Chen, Nick Fanelli, Sandy Chen Title: A Win-win Solution: Congestion Pricing Course: partner courses CEE 3610 | Introduction to Transportation Engineering and ENGRC 3610 | Communications for Transportation Engineering

This team did an effective job of defining and visualizing a problem through oral presentation and visualization with the slides. The presenters speak with confidence and sound highly motivated. We appreciated the team’s extra efforts in creating targeted animated visuals that direct the audience’s focus. The summary is effective in convincing the audience that the proposed solution is the best and most profitable.

Team Presenters: Nicolas Buitrago, Irina Wang, Shadman Khan Title: Inaccessible Engineering Campus Tours Course: ENGRC 3500 | Engineering Communication

The Fuertes Medal Memorial Prize for Pubic Speaking originated in 1912 in Civil Engineering. Given to all-undergraduate teams, comprised of three or more individuals who are all undergraduate declared majors in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. This competition is not available to M.Eng. or Ph.D students. 

The Fuertes Medal is named for Estevan Antonio Fuertes (1838-1903). Born in Puerto Rico, educated in Spain and New York, he began he work at Cornell as a founding dean in Civil Engineering. He worked tirelessly to promote "state of the art" thinking for the technical fields, including the ability to communicate innovation.  Photo source

The Douglas Whitney Prize for Engineering Student Presentations

• Number of Awards: Up to four separate cash awards, in total, from across the College of Engineering
• Focus: Non-traditional Multimedia Presentations
• Time limit: Ten minutes or less per entry 

This competition is for undergraduate students (either as individuals or in teams) from the College of Engineering. An individual student may only enter this competition once during this award cycle.

(not available in 2024).

Past winners.

Team Presenters: onewordstudios In order of appearance : Wendy Zhang, Jeffrey Yao, Demi Chang,  Michael Xing, Sam Sorenson, Aashna Saxena Title: SweetSpace Boston FIG Entry Video Course: partner courses CS/INFO 4152 (Advanced Game Development) and  ENGRC 4152 (Communication for Advanced Games Design)

Team Presenters: Mooooovvvve Studios. Team Members:  Erie Adames, Sheri Guo, Naina Pai, Shan Parikh, Yash Sahota, Christopher Talavera, Joy Zhang Title: Spectacle Boston FIG Entry Video Course: partner courses CS/INFO 4152 (Advanced Game Development) and  ENGRC 4152 (Communication for Advanced Games Design)

For CUP Awards, the Douglas Whitney Prize recognizes quality multi-modal, innovative, or alternative forms of traditional presentations. Entries should make interesting use of video or alternative formats to promote technical work, concepts, or projects associated with College of Engineering coursework. 

This award is given to either individual students or all-undergraduate teams that are comprised of three or more people. Individual entrants must be declared majors in Cornell’s College of Engineering; for team submissions, the majority of members must be majors in Cornell’s College of Engineering. Competition is not available to M.Eng. or Ph.D students.

The Douglas Whitney Prize was established in 1987, with the intent to promote and recognize quality undergraduate student presentations in the College of Engineering.  

Poster Making and Printing : Home

Poster design.

Presentation Resources

Creating a poster is one thing, but creating an effective presentation is another. The links below can help you get started and talk about general design issues, both practical, and further on, theoretical. For more specific resources on software, check the library catalog for the subject Microsoft PowerPoint (Computer file).

• Designing Effective Presentations
• Public Speaking for Graduate Students
• The cognitive style of PowerPoint
• Beyond bullet points : using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create presentations that inform, motivate, and inspire
• FlowingData

Visual Display of Maps, Charts and Graphs

• Color Brewer
• Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts
• Choosing Color for Data Visualization
• Color Explorer
• Adobe Color

Poster Design Workshop Materials

• 60 Second Poster Evaluation Link to poster evaluation criteria from NCSU
• Example posters for exercise
• Breakout rooms GDoc
• Poster Design handout
• Other free poster templates at PosterPresentations.com
• Poster Exercise Materials Don't have a poster work on? Find a free PPT poster template and then use these materials to try making your own poster!
• Cornell logos from Cornell Brand Center NOTE: These are high quality logos in Adobe Illustrator format. You can either export them from Illustrator into a file format like TIFF or PNG. Other Cornell units may have their own branding guidelines (e.g. https://brand.cce.cornell.edu/) as well
• Converted Cornell logos Cornell logos in png and jpg format

Useful poster design resources

• Colin Purrington's Designing conference posters Great (and funny) guide to designing scientific posters. Also has useful poster templates
• NCSU's tutorial on poster design Excellent tutorial on creating and presenting scientific posters
• Sample posters from exercise Some of the sample posters from NCSU used in our exercise
• Cornell Center for Materials Research guide to poster design and printing This site has great step by step poster design tutorials and templates in the lefthand navigation bar.
• UNC graduate school's poster and presentation resources Good roundup of links to poster making and presentation advice
• Better Posters Useful poster critique and tips blog
• Eposters.net Library of ePosters
• How to make an effective e-poster Masters K, Gibbs T and Sandars J. MedEdPublish Year, issue: 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.15694/mep.2015.004.0001
• How to design an award-winning conference poster Tips from Animate Your Science, a service that creates graphical and video abstracts
• Posters for Humanities and Social Sciences
• Design Tips for Creating an Arts and Humanities Poster
• Poster Samples from U of Texas at Austin
• Poster design tips from U of Toronto
• Design an eye-catching poster (in Adobe InDesign)
• Better science posters webinar by Biorender

Image Resources

Looking for images, audio, and video tools and resources you can freely use? Try these guides and resources.

• Finding Images at Cornell
• Creative Commons Search Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. You can also find CC searches in Google Images (under the gear icon in Advanced Search) and other sites like Flickr
• Google Images Advanced Search In Google Advanced Search you can choose a large image size, a particular image type or color, public domain images from .gov sites, or Creative Commons licensed images under usage rights.
• Finding Public Domain and Creative Commons Media guide from Harvard A guide to freely usable image, audio, and video resources from Meg Kribble at the Harvard Law School Library.
• Public Domain and Creative Commons: A Guide to Works You Can Use Freely Written and managed by Tammy Ravas, Visual and Performing Arts Librarian at the University of Montana, this guide provides definitions, sources, and tips for using copyrighted or non-copyrighted works.
• The Noun Project Contains symbols and icons which you can download for a fee.

VIDEO: How to create a better research poster in less time (including templates)

Want to test a new way of making posters? Try the method (with templates) below!

• Better Posters-Morrison research template
• Examples on Twitter

VIDEO: Making an academic research poster-the how to

This useful 10 minute tutorial from Jerry Overmyer from the University of Northern Colorado's Mathematics and Science Teaching (MAST) Institute walks you through the basics of adding text and images to a PowerPoint poster template.

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• Last Updated: Jun 16, 2021 11:20 AM
• URL: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/poster

Engineering CUP Awards: Cornell University Presentations

The CUP Awards competition invites engaging, unique, insightful technical presentations from undergraduates. Engineering and technical work has no force or presence unless it's communicated well; to that end, the CUP Awards aim to recognize students who create powerful presentations about their engineering projects. Undergraduates from the current academic year are invited to participate.

Cornell’s College of Engineering and the Engineering Communications Program invites undergraduate individuals and teams to be considered for three separate awards for presentations. Winning students will earn both a monetary award and full recognition from the College of Engineering and Cornell University. 

The Roger K. Berman Oral Presentation Award (for individual speakers; new topical theme each year). 

The Fuertes Medal Memorial Prize for Public Speaking (for teams). 

The Douglas Whitney Prize for Engineering Student Presentations  (for individual speakers or teams).

The goal of the Engineering CUP Awards is to highlight undergraduate work within the College of Engineering, showcasing the importance of strong communication for any technical endeavor. Presenters will benefit, too, from the training, advice, and guidance offered by training workshops and feedback.

These competitions all come with cash awards. The categories of awards listed below allowed for extraordinary students to be recognized for their high levels of presentation prowess, even in the most trying of years.

The process for submission will be outlined with each award. The categories of awards listed below allowed for extraordinary students to be recognized for their high levels of presentation prowess.

The Roger K. Berman Oral Presentation Award

Fall 2023: the indispensable condition.

(use the above link to access the topic and the list of winners)

2019-2020 Winners

Presenter: Issah Madugu  Title: Engineering’s Role in Social Justice Madugu presented compelling a thoughtful collection of reasons that engineering should be rooted in—and responsive to—social justice at its very core. 

Presenter: Isabelle DiGiacomo  Title: LaTeX for Technical Communication DiGiacomo expertly and confidently synthesized core aspects of LaTeX within a frame of technical and engineering communication workflows. This work will soon be featured on the Cornell Help for Engineering Communication (CHEC) website . 

History of This Award

The Roger K. Berman Oral Presentation Award is given to one or more outstanding individual undergraduate speakers per academic school year. Student participants must be a declared majors in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. This competition is not available to MEng or PhD students.

With a new theme guiding submissions each year, presentation topics can be linked to a Cornell undergraduate engineering course or a College of Engineering Project Team. Students can also enter as an individual apart from coursework or formal university project teams. 

Roger K. Berman was a founding member of the advisory council for the Engineering Communications Program. He had a lifelong interest in effective communications, manifested in part during his student days at Cornell University when he served as editor of the Cornell Engineer . In his work at Bellcore, he saw how well communications skills served young engineers, and he believed that his participation on the communications council was one way in which he might help shape the education of students in the college.

In 1994, a fund was endowed in memory of Roger Berman, honoring his memory and his desire for engineers to succeed and excel. The prize will be awarded annually to a student enrolled in the Engineering Communications Program for best oral presentation.

The Fuertes Medal Memorial Prize for Public Speaking: Topics and Requirements

In the spring of 2024, ecp is sponsoring uspark: undergraduate scholars present about research and knowledge (uspark) 2024: living labs edition . .

------------

Team Presenters: Abby Adams, Donovan Flood, Sandhya Ganesan, Maho Koga Title: Modeling of Drying Phase of Lyophilization of the Ebola Virus Disease Vaccine Course:  partner courses BEE 4530 | Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biological Processes and ENGRC 4530 | Communication for Computer-Aided Engineering

This was a great presentation in terms of using the assertion/evidence slide construction taught in the class. Many slides used animations or shapes to draw the audience’s attention to specific parts of a graph or formula. All of the speakers used a professional tone and volume. Overall, the presentation flowed well and showed evidence of practice as well as careful slide design.

Team Presenters: Dave Chen, Evan Cheng, Mitchell Scott Title: Whole Ovary Vitrification Protocol  Team Presenters: Dave Chen, Evan Cheng, Mitchell Scott Course: partner courses BEE 4530 | Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biological Processes and ENGRC 4530 | Communication for Computer-Aided Engineering

For this work, both the speakers and the slide design were excellent, allowing the complex technical information about modeling the cryopreservation of a human ovary to be clearly communicated. The visuals were engaging, as were the speakers. The team expertly used the assertion/evidence structure for slide design, allowing the speakers and information to shine.                                                                                       ---

Team Presenters: Maggie Chen, Nick Fanelli, Sandy Chen Title: A Win-win Solution: Congestion Pricing Course: partner courses CEE 3610 | Introduction to Transportation Engineering and ENGRC 3610 | Communications for Transportation Engineering

This team did an effective job of defining and visualizing a problem through oral presentation and visualization with the slides. The presenters speak with confidence and sound highly motivated. We appreciated the team’s extra efforts in creating targeted animated visuals that direct the audience’s focus. The summary is effective in convincing the audience that the proposed solution is the best and most profitable.

Team Presenters: Nicolas Buitrago, Irina Wang, Shadman Khan Title: Inaccessible Engineering Campus Tours Course: ENGRC 3500 | Engineering Communication

The Fuertes Medal Memorial Prize for Pubic Speaking originated in 1912 in Civil Engineering. Given to all-undergraduate teams, comprised of three or more individuals who are all undergraduate declared majors in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. This competition is not available to M.Eng. or Ph.D students. 

The Fuertes Medal is named for Estevan Antonio Fuertes (1838-1903). Born in Puerto Rico, educated in Spain and New York, he began he work at Cornell as a founding dean in Civil Engineering. He worked tirelessly to promote "state of the art" thinking for the technical fields, including the ability to communicate innovation.  Photo source

The Douglas Whitney Prize for Engineering Student Presentations

• Number of Awards: Up to four separate cash awards, in total, from across the College of Engineering
• Focus: Non-traditional Multimedia Presentations
• Time limit: Ten minutes or less per entry 

This competition is for undergraduate students (either as individuals or in teams) from the College of Engineering. An individual student may only enter this competition once during this award cycle.

(not available in 2024).

Past winners.

Team Presenters: onewordstudios In order of appearance : Wendy Zhang, Jeffrey Yao, Demi Chang,  Michael Xing, Sam Sorenson, Aashna Saxena Title: SweetSpace Boston FIG Entry Video Course: partner courses CS/INFO 4152 (Advanced Game Development) and  ENGRC 4152 (Communication for Advanced Games Design)

Team Presenters: Mooooovvvve Studios. Team Members:  Erie Adames, Sheri Guo, Naina Pai, Shan Parikh, Yash Sahota, Christopher Talavera, Joy Zhang Title: Spectacle Boston FIG Entry Video Course: partner courses CS/INFO 4152 (Advanced Game Development) and  ENGRC 4152 (Communication for Advanced Games Design)

For CUP Awards, the Douglas Whitney Prize recognizes quality multi-modal, innovative, or alternative forms of traditional presentations. Entries should make interesting use of video or alternative formats to promote technical work, concepts, or projects associated with College of Engineering coursework. 

This award is given to either individual students or all-undergraduate teams that are comprised of three or more people. Individual entrants must be declared majors in Cornell’s College of Engineering; for team submissions, the majority of members must be majors in Cornell’s College of Engineering. Competition is not available to M.Eng. or Ph.D students.

The Douglas Whitney Prize was established in 1987, with the intent to promote and recognize quality undergraduate student presentations in the College of Engineering.  

Cornell University --> Graduate School

Careers beyond academia, tips for a memorable 5-minute research presentation.

“If you get the first 5 minutes down, you are going to be golden for the rest of your presentation.” These were the words Susi Varvayanis, Executive Director of Careers Beyond Academia, stated at the start of Tips for a Memorable 5-Minute Research Presentation.

To help alleviate the stress and worries of making a good presentation, please review a summary of some amazing tips. There are three parts of a presentation that can influence the outcome of the presentation.

• You, the speaker
• Your presentation slides
• The audience

How do you as the speaker prepare yourself for the best presentation?

• Be aware of your body language – gestures are important, and they underscore the importance of the message we pass across. Add a smile! Be enthusiastic and make eye contact with the audience. These contribute to the appearance of confidence as you present.
• Practice voice modulations – the way you speak can convey a lot about the information you are passing. Avoid going too fast. Add pauses as you speak, slow your speech, and emphasize key words.
• Avoid jargon and acronyms – According to the dictionary, jargon is defined as special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or groups and is difficult for others to understand. So, avoid them! Especially since some words can convey different connotations for different audiences. So, if I don’t use jargon, what should I use? How do I still convey my point? Try a different word, or use an analogy.

What makes for good presentation slides?

• Good illustrations – make use of simplified images that pass across the information that you are presenting. Simple cartoon illustrations make it easy for the audience, regardless of background, to understand and follow the meanings.
• Data presentation – avoid using excel defaults. Replace topics and labels with easier to understand headings that communicate your main point. Also, simplify images by removing unnecessary sections that do not apply to your audience. Most importantly, lead the audience through your work with all its ups and downs.

How does the audience affect your presentation?

The audience that you have dictates how you present your information. To prepare for your presentation, evaluate your audience. Understand the hook and make them care. Find unifying interests or commonality among the audience. Understand the goals and issues that challenge the audience. Do your images intrigue the audience?

Here is what makes your 5-minute pitch memorable:

• It is passionate – This comes with understanding what inspires your work. Passion for research leads you to excel, even when you suffer setbacks.
• It tells a good story – when you have a flow with compelling images, it helps tell a story, saves explanation, and hooks the audience.
• It gives a ‘why’ – from your presentation, the audience should know why they should care about your work, the implications of your results and how they can apply this information.

Here are some resources that you can explore to help you with a great presentation:

• Tool to check for jargon: De-Jargonizer (scienceandpublic.com)
• The difference between ‘what’ and your ‘why’: Know Your Why | Michael Jr. – YouTube
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• Developing the agrifood systems we urgently need: Healthy, equitable, resilient and sustainable
• Christopher B. Barrett
• MillerComm Lecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• February 26, 2024
• Watch the recording
• Agrifood systems innovations to boost human and environmental resilience to shocks. Access the lecture recording: Carson Lecture Recording
• Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture; Michigan State University
• February 15, 2024
• Chris Barrett
• National Academies Food and Nutrition Board Workshop on Maximizing Agriculture to Enhance Nutrient Composition to Better Fulfill Dietary Recommendations
• January 30, 2024
• Chris Barrett, Nathaniel Jensen, Karlijn Morsink
• Seminar at European University Institute; Florence, Italy
• 2 October 2023
• Avralt-Od Purevjav,Tumenkhusel Avirmed, Steven Wilcox and Christopher B. Barrett
• Seminar at University of Bologna
• 29 September 2023
• Seungmin Lee, Kibrom A. Abay, Christopher B. Barrett
• AAEA 2023 Annual Meeting
• Jing Yi, Dianna Tran, Shiyun Jiang, Molly Ingram, Miguel Gómez, Pat Canning, Jeff Bloem and Chris Barrett
• ASTAR workshop USDA headquarters, Washington, DC
• 26 July 2023
• AAEA annual meetings
• 24 July 2023
• World Bank webinar on Strengthening Financial Resilience in Agriculture Resilience Series
• 7 June 2023
• Ninth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics
• Washington, DC
• 19 May 2023
• Keynote lecture, 11th Asian Society of Agricultural Economists International Conference
• Tokyo, Japan
• 18 March 2023
• Invited talk to conference on Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI): Deepening Knowledge and Capacity
• Wangari Mathai Institute, University of Nairobi
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• 25 January 2023
• Presentation to CREDO ASSA session on Climate Change and the Global Economy: New Progress, Challenges and Learning since Laudato Si’
• New Orleans, LA
• 8 Jaunuary 2023
• Kibrom Abay, Chris Barrett, Talip Kilic, Heather Moylan, John Ilukor, Wilbert Drazi Vundru
• American Economic Association Annual Meeting presentation
• Seminar presentation to CEIDS
• 16 December 2022
• Chris Barrett; Cornell University
• Virtual seminar presentation to the World Bank Agriculture Policies Community of Practice
• 13 December 2022
• Dianna Tran, Molly Ingram, Miguel Gómez, Pat Canning, Jeff Bloem and Chris Barrett; Cornell University
• ASTAR virtual workshop
• 8 November 2022
• Chris Barrett, Cornell University
• International Fund for Agricultural Development conference
• 22 June, 2022
• Keynote address to the German Development Economics Conference hosted by the University of Hohenheim
• 10 June, 2022
• Seminar at World Food System Center ETH Zurich
• 8 June, 2022
• Lessons Learned (and Being Learned) in Studying: “The Environmental Impacts of Microfinance: An Empirical Study of Index-Based Livestock Insurance and East African Rangelands
• Steven W. Wilcox, Christopher B. Barrett, Patrick Clark, Francesco Fava, Nathaniel D. Jensen, Njoki Kahiu, Gerardo E. Soto, Benjamin Porter, Ying Sun
• Long Term Diffusion and Impacts of Index Based Livestock Insurance
• Nathaniel Jensen
• Environmental and Long-term Impacts of Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)
• Chris Barrett, Steven Wilcox, and Nathaniel Jensen
• 18 May, 2022
• Seminar at Texas A&M University
• 19 April, 2022
• Guest lecture to Utrecht & Wageningen Universities
• 16 February, 2022
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• Christopher B. Barrett Ariel Ortiz-Bobea Trinh Pham
• World Bank Africa Economics Seminar
• 27 January, 2022
• UC-San Diego
• 21 October, 2021
• Vesall Nourani (Chicago), Chris Barrett (Cornell), Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell) and Thomas Walker (World Bank)
• Seminar at UC-San Diego
• 19 October, 2021
• Vesall Nourani (MIT), Chris Barrett (Cornell), Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell) and Thomas Walker (World Bank)
• Virtual seminar at Purdue University
• 8 October, 2021
• Seungmin Lee, Christopher B. Barrett, John F. Hoddinott
• Online Agricultural and Resource Economics Seminar
• 8 September, 2021
• 31st International Conference of Agricultural Economists
• 18 August, 2021
• 17 August, 2021
• Beatrice Biondi, Christopher B. Barrett, Mario Mazzocchi, Amy Ando, David Harvey, and Mindy Mallory
• European Association of Agricultural Economics Congress
• 21 July, 2021
• Leiqiu Hu, Ying Sun, Medha Bulumulla, Christopher B. Barrett, Liangzhi You
• Food Security Portal
• 20 July, 2021
• Webinar Description
• International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research annual conference
• 1 July, 2021
• Keynote address at annual conference of the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research
• 30 June, 2021
• Joanna Upton, Elizabeth Tennant, Kathryn J. Fiorella and Christopher B. Barrett
• 16 June, 2021
• Research seminar presentation to German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research at Leipzig University
• 26 May, 2021
• National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator Workshop on Sustainable Systems Enabling Food Security in Extreme Environments and Food Deserts Employing a Convergence of Food, Energy, Water and Systems
• 19 May, 2021
• Miguel I. Gómez, Patrick Canning, Christopher B. Barrett and Jing Yi
• Seminar hosted by Economic and Social Development Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• 14 May, 2021
• Virtual Seminar hosted by Cornell School of Integrative Plant Sciences
• 24 March, 2021
• Center for Poverty Research Workshop, University of Kentucky
• 26 Febuary, 2021
• Virtual seminar hosted by USDA-ERS
• 8 Febuary, 2021
• Virtual seminar hosted by Mississippi State University
• January 29, 2021
• Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell), Asad Islam (Monash), Abdul Malek (Tsukuba),Deb Pakrashi (IIT Kanpur), and Ummul Ruthbah (Monash)
• Virtual seminar hosted by Virginia Tech
• January 27, 2021
• Paul Christian, Christopher B. Barrett
• January 5, 2021
• Linden McBride (St. Mary’s College of Maryland), Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell University), Yanyan Liu (IFPRI), Christopher Browne (Cornell University), Leiqiu Hu (University of Alabama - Huntsville), David Matteson (Cornell University), Ying Sun (Cornell University), and Jiaming Wen (Cornell University)
• AAEA Session, ASSA Meetings
• January 4, 2021
• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Cornell University
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• December 16, 2020
• Christopher B. Barrett, Asad Islam, Abdul Malek, Deb Pakrashi, and Ummul Ruthbah
• NEUDC 2020 @ Dartmouth
• November 7, 2020
• Kathryn J. Fiorella, Elizabeth R. Bageant, Naomi B. Schwartz, Shakuntala Thilsted and Christopher B. Barrett
• Presented at IAAE session at AAEA (virtual) annual meetings
• August 18, 2020
• Watch the address here.
• Fellows Address, 2020 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Annual meetings
• August 11, 2020
• Watch the virtual seminar here.

Virtual Seminar at University of Notre Dame

• April 8, 2020
• Christopher B. Barrett, Asad Islam, Abdul Malek, Deb Pakrashi, Ummul Ruthbah
• Seminar at Stanford University Center on Food Security and the Environment
• March 2, 2020
• Seminar at UC-Davis ARE
• February 27, 2020
• Chris Barrett (Cornell), Vesall Nourani (MIT), Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell) and Thomas Walker (World Bank)
• University of San Francisco Department of Economics
• January 28, 2020
• Williams College, Williamstown, MA
• November 5, 2019
• Seminar at the University of Maryland
• October 30, 2019
• Christopher B. Barrett, Thomas Reardon, Johan Swinnen and David Zilberman
• Seminar at the annual meetings of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets
• October 28, 2019
• Seminars at University of Pretoria & Stellenbosch University
• October 11, 2019 & October 14, 2019
• Simon Brand Memorial Lecture
• 57th Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa Annual Conference
• October 9, 2019
• CEAR/Huebner Conference 6th Annual Summer Risk Institute
• Georgia State University, Atlanta
• July 26, 2019
• July 25, 2019
• Vesall Nourani, Chris Barrett, Eleonora Patacchini and Thomas Walker
• AAEA annual meetings,
• Atlanta, GA
• July 22, 2019
• USDA Multi-state Research Project NC-1034 annual research conference on The Economics of Agricultural Technology & Innovation
• July 21, 2019
• Cornell Institute for China Economic Research
• Summer Institute
• June 17, 2019
• Yanyan Liu, Christopher B. Barrett, Trinh Pham, William Violette
• Seminar at KU Leuven
• June 10, 2019
• Christopher B. Barrett (with Asad Islam, Abdul Malek, Deb Pakrashi, Ummul Ruthbah)
• World Bank DIME seminar & International Food Policy Research Institute
• May 9 (World Bank), May 10(IFPRI), 2019
• IFAD/UC-Davis/World Bank Conference on The Future of Work in Agriculture
• March 20, 2019
• Paul Christion (World Bank) and Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell University)
• Seminar at University of Notre Dame
• Notre Dame, Indiana
• November 15, 2018
• Kibrom A. Abay (ILRI), Gashaw T. Abate (IFPRI), Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell), Tanguy Bernard (IFPRI)
• Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meetings
• August 7, 2018
• Maulik Jagnani (Cornell), Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell), Yanyan Liu (IFPRI), Liangzhi You (IFPRI)
• Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell)
• International Conference of Agricultural Economists
• Vancouver, BC, Canada
• July 28, 2018
• Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell), Kibrom A. Abay (ILRI), Gashaw T. Abate (IFPRI), and Tanguy Bernard (IFPR)
• 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists
• July 30, 2018
• Maulik Jagnani (Cornell), Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell), Yanyan Liu (IFPRI), and Liangzhi You (IFPRI)
• International Conference on Applied Bioeconomy Research
• World Bank, Washington, DC
• June 13, 2018
• IFPRI/IPA/Mercy Corps workshop on Financial Inclusion And Resilience To Climate Variability
• May 29, 2018
• Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell) and Paul Christian (World Bank)
• Department of Economics Seminar
• University of Otago
• May 1, 2018
• School of Accounting, Finance and Economics
• University of Waikato
• April 27, 2018
• Centre for the Study of African Economies Conference
• University of Oxford
• March 19, 2018
• Global Academy of Agriculture & Food Security Seminar
• University of Edinburgh
• March 15, 2018
• International Programs-CALS Seminar
• Cornell University
• March 7, 2018
• Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell), Kibrom A. Abay (University of Copenhagen), Gashaw T. Abate (IFPRI), Tanguy Bernard (IFPRI)
• Institute for African Development Seminar
• February 22, 2018
• African Development Bank Headquarters
• Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
• December 12, 2017
• Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell), Maulik Jagnani (Cornell), Yanyan Liu (IFPRI), Liangzhi You (IFPRI)
• African Development Bank
• University of Connecticut
• November 17, 2017
• Northeastern Universities Development Consortium Conference
• Tufts University
• November 4-5, 2017
• CGIAR Conference on Impacts of International Agricultural Research
• Nairobi, Kenya
• July 7, 2017
• Christopher B. Barrett and Paul Christian
• Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics Seminar
• University of California - Davis
• May 15, 2017
• Stanford University Seminar
• Stanford University
• May 10, 2017
• Boston College
• April 19, 2017
• Christopher B. Barrett, Jenn Cissé, Joanna Upton
• Resilience Measurement Think Shop
• Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
• April 18, 2017
• Seminar at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
• April 5, 2017
• Paul Christian and Christopher B. Barrett
• March 28, 2017
• Willard W. Cochrane Lecture in Public Policy
• University of Minnesota
• March 8, 2017
• Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar
• Global Food + 2017 Event
• Harvard University
• February 24, 2017
• Ecological Systems in the Anthropocene Seminar Series
• Harvard University Center for the Environment
• February 22, 2017
• 4th International Conference on Computational Sustainability
• July 7, 2016
• NBER conference on The Economics of Asset Accumulation and Poverty Traps
• June 28, 2016
• 8th Annual Conference on Economics and Catholic Social Thought
• University of Chicago
• May 20, 2016
• Presentation for the Structural Transformation in African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS)
• Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• December 4-5, 2015
• Workshop on Innovations in Index Insurance to Promote Agricultural and Livestock Development
• December 3, 2015
• Ezra’s Round Table Lecture
• Ithaca, New York
• November 20, 2015
• J.W. Fanning Lecture at the University of Georgia
• November 19, 2015
• Nathan Jensen, Andrew Mude, and Christopher B. Barrett
• International Conference on Global Food Security
• October 14, 2015
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• J.B. Upton, J.D. Cissé & C.B. Barrett
• Global Food Security Conference
• October 13, 2015
• October 11-14, 2015
• Lecture at University of Notre Dame
• September 8, 2015
• Nathaniel D. Jensen, Christopher B. Barrett, Andrew G. Mude
• Milan, Italy
• August 2015
• Joanna B. Upton, Jennifer Denno Cissé, Christopher B. Barrett
• August 12, 2015
• August 10, 2015
• Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
• Learning Lunch presentation at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• July 13, 2015
• Brian Dillon, University of Washington and Christopher Barrett, Cornell University
• IFPRI-World Bank conference on "Agriculture in Africa--Telling Facts from Myths"
• Washington, D.C.
• June 15, 2015
• Presentation at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
• Annapolis, Maryland
• March 24, 2015
• Seminar at USAID Headquarters
• February 10, 2015
• Joanna Upton, Jenn Cissé, Chris Barrett, Cornell University
• USDA Economic Research Service Workshop on ‘Finding Meaning in Our Measures: Overcoming Challenges to Quantitative Food Security’
• February 9, 2015
• Megan Sheahan and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
• Presentation for the workshop on Structural Transformation in African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS)
• African Development Bank Headquarters, Tunis, Tunisia
• November 11-12, 2014
• Brian Dillon, University of Washington and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
• November 11, 2014
• Seminar at University of Connecticut
• October 3, 2014
• Chris Barrett and Teevrat Garg, Cornell University
• September 4, 2014
• Nathaniel D. Jensen, Andrew G. Mude and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
• Minneapolis, MN
• Russell Toth with Chris Barrett, Rich Bernstein, Pat Clark, Carla Gomes, Shibia Mohamed, Andrew Mude, and Birhanu Taddesse
• 2014 AAEA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
• July 28, 2014
• Kibrom Hirfrfot, Christopher B. Barrett, Erin Lentz, and Birhanu Taddesse, Cornell University
• July 7, 2014
• Presentation at the International Livestock Research Institute
• July 4, 2014
• International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
• July 3, 2014
• University of Wisconsin
• April 11, 2014
• Presented at the International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
• April 10, 2014
• Presented at the World Bank
• March 27, 2014
• Presented at the University of Michigan
• March 17, 2014
• IMF/OCP/NYU International Conference on Food Price Volatility, Rabat, Morocco
• February 26, 2014
• Presented at Syracuse University
• February 24, 2014
• Presented at the Earth Institute, Columbia University
• December 2, 2013
• View video on YouTube
• Christopher B. Barrett and Leah E.M. Bevis, Cornell University
• Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
• Christopher B. Barrett, Wendy Wolford, Sam Crowell, and Joanna Upton, Cornell University
• Cornell University Mann Library Chat in the Stacks Book Talk
• November 7, 2013
• Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC
• Video Online
• October 22, 2013
• First International Conference on Global Food Security, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
• September 30, 2013
• Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium
• September 27, 2013
• Nathaniel Jensen, Cornell University, Andrew Mude, International Livestock Research Institute, and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
• I4 Technical Committee Meeting, University of California Davis
• September 2013
• Leah Bevis, Cornell University and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
• Calvin College Summer Seminar on the Economics of Global Poverty
• August 2013
• Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University and Mark A. Constas, Cornell University
• Presentation at the International Food Policy Research Institute
• August 2, 2013
• James Cook University SIS group meeting
• July 8, 2013
• Econometric Society Australasian Meetings, Sydney
• Seminar at James Cook University (Townsville, QLD Australia)
• July 4, 2013
• Presented at Australian National University (Canberra) to the Australasian Development Economics Workshop
• June 7, 2013
• Australasian Development Economics Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra
• June 6, 2013
• Kazushi Takahashi, Institute of Developing Economies and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
• Australian National University seminar
• June 4, 2013
• University of Sydney seminar
• May 24, 2013
• Brian M. Dillon, Cornell University and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
• Presentation to the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society New South Wales Brank
• May 23, 2013
• Monash Centre for Development Economics panel discussion
• May 22, 2013
• Monash University Workshop on Poverty and Inequality
• May 21, 2013
• University of Melbourne seminar
• May 16, 2013
• Monash University seminar
• May 8, 2013
• Deakin University seminar
• May 1, 2013
• Marc F. Bellemare, Duke University; Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University; and David R. Just, Cornell University
• University of Adelaide, School of Economics
• April 5, 2013
• Kazushi Takahashi, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
• Melbourne Workshop In Development Economics, University of Melbourne, Australia
• March 15, 2013
• Monash University Workshop on “Ecologists and Economists: scope for collaboration?”
• March 13, 2013
• Chayanee Chawanote, Cornell University and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
• Applied Microeconomics Seminar, Monash University
• March 7, 2013
• Brian Dillon, Cornell University and Chris Barrett, Cornell University
• A presentation for the “Oil Prices and African Food Security” workshop, Cornell University, Jan 7-8, 2013
• Sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• January 7, 2013
• C.H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Department of Economics, Cornell University
• Community and International Nutrition Seminar Series, Cornell University
• November 19, 2012
• Seminar to Harvard University Sustainability Science Program
• October 24, 2012
• Seminar presented to Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• October 23, 2012
• Andrew G. Mude and Christopher B. Barrett
• 10th International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy, Ethiopian Economics Association
• July 19, 2012
• Kazushi Takahashi and Christopher B. Barrett
• Presentation at workshop on The Economics of Global Poverty
• Calvin College
• July 12, 2012
• Christopher B. Barrett and Joanna B. Upton
• Food Security and its Implications for Global Stability Authors' Workshop
• June 19, 2012
• I4 Meetings, Rome
• June 14, 2012
• Christopher B. Barrett and Michael R. Carter
• Seminar at University of California at Riverside
• May 24, 2012
• Joanna B. Upton, Erin C. Lentz, Christopher B. Barrett, and Teevrat Garg
• May 23, 2012
• Seminar at Monash University
• May 20, 2012
• Felix Naschold, University of Wyoming
• Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University
• May 2012 seminar presentation
• University of Sydney and Monash University
• Teevrat Garg, Christopher B. Barrett, Miguel I. Gómez, Erin C. Lentz, William Violette
• FAO ISN-Symposium, January, 2012
• Annemie Maertens and Christopher B. Barrett
• University of Pittsburgh and Cornell University
• 7 January 2012
• International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, General Meeting Theme Day
• St. Petersburg, Florida, December 11, 2011
• Joanna B. Upton, Erin C. Lentz, Christopher B. Barrett
• Presentation at AAEA Annual Meetings, Pittsburgh, PA
• Presentation at the Brown International Advanced Research Institute on Climate Change and Its Impacts, Providence, RI
• June 13, 2011
• Andrew Mude and Chris Barrett
• I4 Technical Meeting, Washington, DC
• 13-14 May 2011
• Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium, Stanford University
• April 27, 2011
• Institute for the Social Sciences Theme Project Capstone Lecture
• April 6, 2011
• Felix Naschold (Cornell University & University of Wyoming) and Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell University)
• Cornell University Nutrition and Food Science & Technology seminar
• March 7, 2011
• Pin Chantarat, Chris Barrett. Tavan Janvilisri, Chularat Niratisayakul, Sittichai Mudsri and Pilai Poonswad
• Linking Biodiversity and Poverty Hotspots Seminar, Cornell University
• February 24, 2011
• Paulo Santos and Chris Barrett
• Presentation at Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
• January 20, 2011
• Sommarat Chantarat and Chris Barrett
• Seminar at Watson Institute, Brown University
• October 13, 2010.
• Felix Naschold (Cornell University & University of Wyoming), Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell University)
• Annual meetings of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
• Denver, Colorado, July 2010.
• Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, and C. Peter Timmer
• Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter
• Andrew Adjei-Holmes (ISSER, UoG), Ernest Aryeetey (ISSER, UoG), Christopher Barrett (Cornell University), Robert Darko Osei (ISSER, UoG), Thomas Walker (Cornell University)
• ISSER, 15th July, 2010.
• Chris Barrett, Maren Bachke, Marc Bellemare, Hope Michelson, Sudha Narayanan, Tom Walker
• FAO, Rome, June 3, 2010.
• Index Insurance Innovation Initiative Scientific Meeting, January 15-16, 2010.
• Biodiversity and Poverty Traps Workshop, Cornell University, February 5, 2010.
• ISS Seminar, Cornell University, October 27, 2009.
• Institute for African Development, Cornell University, October 7, 2009.
• 1st International Conference on Computational Sustainability, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 10, 2009.
• AGRA/ILRI Conference : "Towards Priority Actions for Market Development for African Farmers", Nairobi, Kenya. May 13, 2009.
• Lafayette College seminar, Easton, PA. May 1, 2009.
• International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. March 16, 2009.
• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. May 12, 2008.
• 5th Midwest International Economic Development Conference, Madison, Wisconsin. May 2, 2008.
• Oxford University , Oxford, England, UK. April 2008 .
• At Purdue University , West Lafayette, IN. November 30, 2007.
• Seminar at North Carolina State University , Raleigh, NC. October 24, 2007.
• Seminar at the International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. September 28, 2007.
• World Bank, Washington D.C. September 2007.
• Ohio State University seminar, Columbus, OH. May 3, 2007.
• CIIFAD lecture series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. March 14, 2007.
• At Staple Food Trade and Market Policy Options for Promoting Development in Eastern and Southern Africa, Rome, Italy. March 1-2, 2007.
• Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the roles of risk and ability
• Michigan State University guest lecture, East Lansing, MI. September 14, 2006.
• Informal Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia
• At a Michigan State University, MI. September 14, 2006.
• Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield The Highest Payoff?
• AAEA Symposium on Food Aid Controversies in an Era of Policy Reform, Long Beach, CA. July 2006.
• Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: on the roles of risk and ability
• Conference on Pastoralism and Poverty Reduction in East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. June 27-28, 2006.
• International Conference on Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural Resource Use at Wageningen University , Wageningen, Gelderland, the Netherlands. May 19, 2006.
• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. February 15, 2006.
•   An earlier version was presented in May 2005 at USAID, Washington, D.C..
• International Food Policy Research Institute seminar, Washington. February 1, 2006.
• University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana seminar, IL. January 27, 2006.
• J.W. Fanning Memorial Lecture at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. November 4, 2005.
• World Bank/DfID Conference at the University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. June 2005.
• World Bank seminar, Washington D.C. May 18, 2005.
• USAID BASIS CRSP Policy Conference, Combating Persistent Poverty in Africa, Washington, D.C.. November 15, 2004.
• American Economic Association annual meetings, Philadelphia, PA. January 2005.
• CIIFAD weekly seminar at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. November 10, 2004.
• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. April 14, 2004.
• A variant of this was delivered in February 2004 at the University of California, Davis (Davis, CA), in March 2004 at the Columbia University School of Public Affairs (New York, NY), in April 2004 at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), and in June 2004 at the World Bank (Washington, D.C.).

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Download email signature templates (BOX)

Icons/graphics/logos.

Per industry standards, using icons/graphics/logos in signatures is discouraged. This includes the Cornell seal and social media icons. Mobile and tablet devices and some email clients strip icons/graphics/logos from the email and display them as empty frames or include them as attachments. Instead, spelling out the item that you wish to include and hyperlinking to the relevant web page is recommended.

Merchandising Guidelines

Guidelines for the cornell seal.

If you would like to produce Cornell Seal branded materials—such as apparel, gift items, and sporting goods—you must adhere to the following guidelines located at  brand.cornell.edu/merchandising .

• Purchase merchandise using a  licensed manufacturer . The licensing process (administered by the Collegiate Licensing Company in Atlanta, Georgia) ensures that the Cornell name and logo are used appropriately, and that merchandise is manufactured under a code of conduct designed to reinforce fair-labor practices and prohibit sweatshop conditions.
• The logo must be rendered in  Cornell red (PMS 187), white, or black .
• It may also be etched on metal or glass or stamped on metal or leather.
• The logo must adhere to the standards established in the  logos and lockups  section.
• For embroidery applications, the  seal  should be a minimum of 2-5/16″ in diameter.
• Do not redraw, reconstruct, or modify the logo in any way.
• The logo is a  trademark  of Cornell University and cannot be altered.

Guidelines for just the Cooperative Extension Wordmark

Producing Extension branded items with just the extension wordmark is a lot easier!

• We still recommend purchasing merchandise through a  licensed manufacturer . The licensing process (administered by the Collegiate Licensing Company in Atlanta, Georgia) ensures that the Cornell name and logo are used appropriately, and that merchandise is manufactured under a code of conduct designed to reinforce fair-labor practices and prohibit sweatshop conditions.
• The wordmark should be rendered in  Cornell red (PMS 187), white, or black .
• Do not redraw, reconstruct, or modify the wordmark in any way.

ADminders 

ADminders is a Cornell Licensed vendor with an inventory of CCE, Master Gardener and 4-H branded apparel, gifts, and supplies for purchase. Visit  cce.adminders.com  to see what's in stock.

Photographs

The CCE Brand Collection is a curated selection of high-quality, royalty-free photographs that exemplify the CCE Brand. All images in this collection can be used, free of charge, in CCE print and digital publications.

This collection is managed by the Extension Administration Communications Team and is publicly available. This collection should be your first stop for finding CCE photography.

Additional photography guidance and resources are available here.

NYS Map Downloads

Download connected dots NYS map (.ai and .png) and a map of NYS with counties outlined (.ai and .png).

Social Media Branding

Naming conventions , profile pictures, icons, and avatars.

Follow Cornell University guidelines for social media avatar/icons:

• Use an iconic and identifiable image as your graphical representation.
• Don’t use the Cornell logo for your social media avatar. 

Download the CCE social media avatar/icon template.  

Video branding

The  CCE video end bug (.mp4 and .mov files in BOX)  can be inserted at the end of the video. 

The CCE YouTube channel has several branded videos that are available to share or embed on your website. For example, some recent, sharable, branded videos from Extension Administration and Cornell University include: 

• Cornell Cooperative Extension: Helping New Yorkers Thrive
• Free Hand Sanitizer and Face Coverings Help Protect NYS Farmworkers
• Extension Responds: Resilience Across New York State
• CCE Voices Appreciation for N.Y. Farmers

Additional  video guidance and resources are available here.

Zoom Backgrounds

Download CCE branded backgrounds for your Zoom meetings here . Guidance for applying a new Zoom background is available here.

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Executive Presence Cornell Certificate Program

Do you have the presence of a leader? Executive presence is a vital skill in business and life: being able to connect with other people by making your case and communicating genuine emotion, even in the most intimidating circumstances. Whether you’re leading a team meeting or giving a formal presentation to a large group, you can learn to combine your breath, your voice, your body positioning, your passionate belief in what you're saying, and your authentic self so profoundly that people won't be able to look away.

In this 15-week certificate program, you'll learn by doing to refine your public speaking skills and build confidence in your own presence. By sharing videos of yourself presenting and receiving constructive feedback from fellow students and experts, you'll practice analyzing your performance, repeating, and refining your work in exercises and acting techniques specially designed by Cornell Theatre Professor David Feldshuh. It's not about achieving perfection. The core skills, analytical tools, and training exercises presented in this program are intended to position you for a lifetime of development. The better you get, the more confident you’ll feel. And it will show.

This program includes a year of free access to Symposium! These events feature several days of live, highly participatory virtual Zoom sessions with Cornell faculty and experts to explore the most pressing leadership topics. Symposium events are held several times throughout the year. Once enrolled in your program, you will receive information about upcoming events.

Throughout the year, you may participate in as many sessions as you wish. Attending Symposium sessions is not required to successfully complete the certificate program.

How It Works

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David Feldshuh has served as a Professor of Theatre at Cornell University for more than 30 years. His course, “Leadership Presence: Acting in Public,” leverages theater techniques to train scientists, leaders in education and business, and anyone else wanting to enjoy more effective communication of their ideas and passions. Professor Feldshuh has been recognized as a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell’s highest teaching award.

Professor Feldshuh began his professional career as an actor and director at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. He then earned a Ph.D. in theater (focusing on creativity and actor training) followed by an M.D. degree, specializing in Emergency Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine and spends part of each week as a practicing physician.

Professor Feldshuh is the author of three widely produced plays, most notably “Miss Evers’ Boys,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. As an HBO movie, “Miss Evers’ Boys” received 12 Emmy nominations and won five, including Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie.

Executive Presence

Key course takeaways.

• Analyze and understand your own strengths and weaknesses as a presenter
• Connect and affect listeners when you transfer information, share emotion, or persuade for change
• Observe and appreciate the performance aspects in others and learn how these insights can contribute to your presence
• Deal with performance anxiety, mannerisms, and other distractions that limit your effectiveness in presentation
• Create a self-training process using self-video, self-analysis, focused exercises, and rubric assessment to continue improvement after the course is completed

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What You'll Earn

• Executive Presence Certificate from Cornell College of Arts and Sciences
• 75 Professional Development Hours (7.5 CEUs)

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Who should enroll.

• Aspiring leaders
• Managers, senior leaders and executives
• Actors and performers
• Anyone who wants to become more effective in connecting with others through increased ease and presence when speaking in public or private

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Career Services

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Pre-Law What You Need to Know Webinar

Presented by: alex jablonski.

In this presentation, Alex Jablonski, Assistant Director for Pre-Law and Pre-Graduate Advising, provides an overview of the pre-law process at Cornell. Topics include: an overview of the legal field; deciding whether law is the right path for you; requirements for admission to law school, and how to prepare; choosing majors and minors as a pre-law student; finding internships and other extracurricular opportunities; creating a workable pre-law timeline; and paying for law school.

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Consulting 101: a guide to behavioral and case interviews, presented by: justin goot.

Are you preparing for a consulting interview and want to learn more about what to expect during a behavioral and case interview? This video will break down how to prepare for behavioral interviews and the anatomy of a case interview along with additional resources to prepare.

Interviewing

Summer Experience Grant Info Session 2024

Presented by: mike loeffelman, ph.d. and samantha stafford.

Planning to apply for a Summer Experience Grant to support an unpaid or minimally paid summer experience? Join us for an info session where we will share information about completing your application and provide tips on completing the budget form. The application goes live Friday March 1 and closes Monday April 15: https://experience.cornell.edu/opportunities/summer-experience-grant. If you have questions regarding the Summer Experience Grant feel free to email [email protected].

Consulting 101: Breaking Down the "What" in Consulting

Presented by: elaine lu.

Are you considering a career in 'consulting' and not sure where to start? This video will break down the 'what' in consulting. This workshop aims to provide an explanation of the consulting role, acquired skills, industry timelines, interview types, networking tips, and, of course, additional resources to support Cornell students.

Career Paths

Finding Summer Research Positions

Presented by: liz hartman, student panelists: olivia maday '24, isabel stanley '24, isaac chang '25, peyton disiena '25.

Get tips and resources for finding on-campus and off-campus summer research opportunities. Hear from fellow students about their research experiences! Student panelists: Olivia Maday '24 - Biology and Society Isabel Stanley '24 - Animal Science Isaac Chang '25 - Nutritional Sciences Peyton DiSiena '25 - Biological Sciences

Job or Internship Search

Career Prep Series: Job and Internship Search

Presented by: erica ford.

Learn about tools and resources to help with job or internship search.

Career Prep Series: Resume and Cover Letters

Tailoring your resume and cover letter to a job description is a must. Doing so will convey to an employer that you have the knowledge, skills, and experience for that specific job.

Resumes and Interview Prep

Career Prep Series: Interviewing

Presented by: mia ferraina.

Whether you have an upcoming interview or are just being proactive, we’ll help you get ready! This session will focus on behavioral interviews – steps to prepare, questions to anticipate, and understanding what employers look for in your responses. We’ll also touch on case and technical interviews - what they are used for and online practice tools Cornell provides. See the Career Development Toolkit module on Interviewing https://canvas.cornell.edu/courses/14918/pages/interviews-intro?module_item_id=392641

How to Launch Your Social Impact Career through Fellowships: ProFellow Information Session

Presented by: dr. vicki johnson, mike bishop, beth fiori.

ProFellow.com is the world’s leading online resource for information on professional and academic fellowships. We offer our readers a free fellowships database where you can search and bookmark more than 2,400 fellowships and fully funded graduate programs. They also publish articles with application tips written by fellows and lead the International Fellows Network, a global professional network of current and former fellowship recipients. ProFellow’s mission is to make funding opportunities more accessible to diverse audiences and to share advice on the competitive application process. All the content on the site is voluntarily produced by current and former fellows who aim to pay-it-forward and inspire the next generation of aspiring fellows. ProFellow’s Founder and Director Dr. Vicki Johnson is a Cornell alumna! She is also a four-time fellow herself, as well as a top Ph.D. scholar and award-winning social entrepreneur. Hear from Vicki herself about using this great tool!

Fellowships

How to Ace Your Tech Interview (with Exponent)

Presented by: tom lu, senior software engineer at alphabet and coach at exponent.

Learn more about acing your engineering interview to help land a tech job! Tom Lu, a senior software engineer at Alphabet and coach with Exponent explains the importance of practicing tech interview questions so you become familiar and comfortable during your interviews with top tech employers! Exponent: https://www.tryexponent.com/login/saml/cornell

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2024 Showcase Presentations

At the 2024 Showcase, more than 350 students from more than 25 disciplines will present nearly 275 research projects, including more than 200 posters, 28 live podium presentations and 44 video presentations.

Students who choose this format present their research in an original five-minute video in one of the following categories:

• Chemical and Cellular Frontiers (#A-01 to #A-03)
• Experiential Learning (#B-01 to #B-04)
• Green Cincinnati (#C-01 to #C-18)
• Music and Culture (#D-01 to #D-04)
• Substance Use, Mental and Behavioral Heath, and Sociology (#E-01 to #E-10)
• The Social Safety Net (#F-01 to #F-05)

As individuals or small teams, students create posters that convey the purpose, process, and outcome of their project with aesthetic appeal. Each student delivers a five-minute overview of their project to reviewers in person on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

• View or download the Morning Poster Guide
• View or download the Afternoon Poster Guide

Podium Presentations

Students individually develop and deliver an eight-minute presentation live in person on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. View podium presentation details