The Professional Development Unit of the IP/CALS plans and manages short- and long-term learning experiences for hundreds of international visitors each year in plant breeding and pathology, food marketing and processing, animal sciences, research management, farmer-led research, and other sciences. It also coordinates the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at Cornell, which brings up to 15 mid-career professionals from around the world to Cornell each year to expand their professional skills through course work, independent projects, special seminars, and interaction with faculty and off-campus experts in their field.

Your participation in a professional development or training program with Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences International Programs office will put you in touch with some of the latest developments in research, teaching and extension. The resources to support international activities at Cornell University are numerous.

Cornell University is the land grant university for New York state, there are extension educators in every county, agribusiness, industries and public agencies alike have developed good relations with our faculty for field trips and additional references for our visitors. More than half of the 365 faculty members within the College of Agriculture have worked on international projects in other countries. Take a look at some of the other country based and thematic programs within CIIFAD to get an idea of our current/past activities.

In addition to the 745 acre campus the university's extended campus includes an agricultural and experiment station in Geneva, a vineyard research laboratory in Fredonia, and animal science teaching and research center in Harford, a teaching and research forest in two counties, and urban programs in New York City and Washington D.C. You are not limited to the short courses described in this section. If you are a sponsoring organization and have a request for a group of people, please contact us to find out if we can tailor a program to meet your needs, both within the U.S. or within another country.

Program Activities

Visitors

Dr. Kalpana Sastry Regulagedda

Fulbright Scholar, Sr. Scientist, National Agricultural Research Management

Hyderabad, India

Norman E. Borlaug Fellowship Program borlaug

Dr. Sankarakutty

Dr. Rajan Sharma

Dr. Mohammad Akram

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of State are sponsoring fellowships to provide training and collaborative

research opportunities for scientists, faculty and policy makers for 4-10 weeks from the following countries

Fellowships now available for participants from the following countries:

Afghanistan   Algeria     Armenia   Bangladesh   Belize     Bulgaria Burkina Faso   Cameroon China     Costa Rica   El Salvador   Ecuador Ethiopia   Egypt     Ghana     Guyana   Georgia Guatemala Honduras   India     Morocco   Nicaragua   Nigeria     Oman Panama   Peru Philippines   Romania   Senegal   Serbia-Montenegro   Sri Lanka   Tunisia   Uruguay Vietnam Yeman

Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has trained 25 young scientists from

Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria and Uruguay in the fields of plant breeding, plant pathology, dairy management and biotechnology. 

Highlights of past training

The Cornell University Agricultural Research and Experiment Station for New York State in Geneva faculty have mentored many Borlaug Fellows.

Notable is the ongoing projects and research with Dr. Courtney Weber in the development of raspberry and strawberry varieties for temperate climates with the Fruit and Grape Research Center in Serbia.  Also Dr. Jay Freer and Dr. Terrence Robinson's work in sweet and tart cherries.    Cornell has the largest set of plum rootstock experiments in N. America

Borlaug Fellows have found Cornell University to have excellent ties to agribusiness in the region, and the resources on campus from the libraries to the diagnostic tools that faculty have developed for the public to be extremely valuable to their work.

Examples:

Educational tool for fruit growers and homeowners http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pp/extension/tfabp/

Good Agricultural Practices for Food Safety

http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pp/extension/tfabp/

Milk Quality Improvement Program http://www.foodscience.cornell.edu/mqip/indexmqip.html

  For more information about the Borlaug Fellowship Program contact the Coordinator

Francine Wilson Jasper fj10@cornell.edu

 

ALO-TIES Mexico Professional Development Program tiesmexico.cals.cornell

Cornell University's Department of Animal Science, The International Programs Office/CALS,

The University of the Yucatan and University of Veracruz along with support from the United States Agency for International Development.

This partnership seeks improvement of productivity, profitability and rural incomes in the Gulf region through a systems-oriented program of training and decision support to the ruminant livestock industry. A primary goal is to increase the ability of decision-makers to respond to changes in technologies, markets, or trade policies.