Experience CALS Sessions

Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab (Applied Economics and Management)
Join Cornell's Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, and Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab Brian Wansink for an interactive session on "Food Tricks and Mindless Eating Solutions". See demonstrations of previous research findings and participate in new experiments.

Cornell’s Food Science Lab
Tour Cornell's Food Science labs, learn about how the department is improving the wholesomeness and availability of food for the world's population and taste some famous homemade Cornell Ice Cream.

Cornell’s Greenhouses
Get an inside look at these magnificent greenhouses. With 163 separate compartments -- the largest noncommercial greenhouse operation in the state -- Cornell's greenhouses are multipurpose teaching and research facilities and, in some buildings, public observatories. Tour the Purple Conservatory, the large 1930 greenhouse with the curved glass eaves and the Seeley Mudd rooftop greenhouse. There you will  see a wide variety of research projects.

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Teaching Winery
Tour the winery and learn about the new interdisciplinary major, viticulture and enology -- grape growing and winemaking, that will involve faculty from half a dozen departments at CALS and the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva. This major is filling a critical need in New York and the Northeast for trained people to manage vineyards and make world-class wines.

Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall
Tour the new magnificent facility of Weill Hall. Designers and faculty planners at Cornell have created the intellectual crucible that was once the stuff of life scientists' dreams: a state-of-the-art facility with open, overlapping laboratory areas, light-filled rooms and hallways, a commanding atrium and a high-tech audiovisual facility. The completion of the life sciences building, -- which had its official opening Oct. 16 -- marks a giant leap toward advancing Cornell's leadership nationally and internationally in the biological sciences revolution. And it will be well positioned to be at the center of a fertile era of research breakthroughs.

Albert R. Mann Library
As one of the Cornell University Library system's twenty unit libraries, Albert R. Mann Library’s collections and services support the faculty, staff and students of CALS and the University. Join us for "Teaching the Technology Frontier" From digital mapping to essential e-journal collections and the wonder of Google books, powerful new information technologies promoted by modern libraries are helping to transform the way timely cutting-edge research is accomplished. Mann librarians Jaron Porciello and Keith Jenkins will lead workshop participants in a hands-on tour of a few of these exciting innovations. Our workshop will take place in the Stone Classroom, a high tech computing hub in the newly renovated Mann Library building. Time permitting, tour of the renovated library facility to follow.