Graduate School

Knitting at the Barn
2022-12-06 17:00 - 18:00, 2022-11-29 17:00 - 18:00, 2022-11-15 17:00 - 18:00, 2022-11-08 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Do you enjoy knitting or would you like to learn how? Come and check our knitting workshop every Tuesday at 5pm! Beginners welcome!

Swing Dance
2022-12-05 19:00 - 21:30, 2022-11-28 19:00 - 21:30, 2022-11-21 19:00 - 21:30, 2022-11-14 19:00 - 21:30, 2022-11-07 19:00 - 21:30 | NY
Learn this famous big band social dance including styles like lindy hop, Charleston, and more!

Language Circle
2022-12-05 17:00 - 18:00, 2022-11-28 17:00 - 18:00, 2022-11-21 17:00 - 18:00, 2022-11-14 17:00 - 18:00, 2022-11-07 17:00 - 18:00 | NY
Want to practice a new language or speak your native language with other students? Join us at the Barn for this social event where you can meet with other students to brush up on your language skills.
No registration required; just attend.

Let's Meditate
2022-12-05 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-11-28 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-11-21 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-11-14 16:00 - 17:00 | NY
Weekly mindfulness meditation sessions
Mondays at the Barn

TGIF (Tell Grads It's Friday)
2022-12-02 16:30 - 19:00, 2022-11-18 16:30 - 19:00, 2022-11-11 16:30 - 19:00 | NY
Looking to kick back and make some friends? Come celebrate with us as we welcome old and new graduate & professional students back to Cornell for the Big Red Barn’s signature event. Snacks, music, and drink specials!
No registration required; just attend.

Big Red Barn Trivia Night
2022-11-29 20:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-15 20:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-08 20:00 - 22:00 | NY
Join us for our normal Tuesday night trivia session and compete for prizes with knowledge in unlimited categories. No team? No worries, we will match you with an existing team or form a new one.
No registration required; just attend.

Building Backwards to Biotech-Driving Cutting Edge Science to Market
2022-11-18 15:30 - 17:00 | 148 Stocking Hall, 411 Tower Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14853
Ever wondered how research makes it out of the lab and to patients? Start-ups, entrepreneurship, and biotechnology are proven methods for bringing novel science off the bench and to the market, where they have the potential to impact real people’s health and lives for the better. Alumna Stephanie Wisner (A&S ’16 Chemistry) will share her findings from industry experts recently published in her new book, Building Backwards to Biotech: The Power of Entrepreneurship to Drive Cutting Edge Science to Market. Wisner will share about her career path from scientist to biotech cofounder, as well as the methods you need to understand in order to start your own start-up or understand the exciting emerging industry of biotech. Bring your questions, and get a chance to win a free book, signed by the author. Let’s Celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week together!
Register online for this event.
About the speaker, Stephanie A. Wisner
Stephanie A. Wisner ’16 co-founded the biotech start-up, Centivax, where she is now Chief Business Officer. She has also advised multiple biotech start-ups on business and commercialization strategy through her consulting business, BioVenture Advising LLC. In 2022, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Healthcare. She completed her MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, with concentrations in finance, accounting, and entrepreneurship. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in chemistry and chemical biology from Cornell University and was awarded the Einhorn Discovery Research Grant for her independent research on cancer. Her first book, Building Backwards to Biotech: The Power of Entrepreneurship to Bring Cutting-Edge Science to Market, was named an Amazon New Release Best-seller in Biotechnology. While she no longer gets as much time in the lab, she enjoys the travel and continuous learning this career involves.
Listen to her recent interview with Startup Cornell Podcast-episode 11
About the book, Building Backwards to Biotech
Ever wonder how medicines and vaccines enter the marketplace? Why they are so expensive? Most people have heard about Theranos, a story of failure: how do biotechnology start-ups actually succeed?
In Building Backwards to Biotech, author Stephanie A. Wisner demystifies the subjects of biotechnology, start-ups, and finance to answer these questions. Wisner unlocks the secrets of how to build a biotech company successfully by keeping one process always in mind: Building Backwards. In this book you will understand the concept of Building Backwards and how it can:

Increase your chances of starting a “winning” company
Inform capital raising
Lead to a strong clinical and scientific strategy
Mitigate business and scientific risk from the outset

Wisner believes in the power of entrepreneurship to drive cutting-edge science to market successfully and its ability to help people suffering with diseases currently considered untreatable. She believes good science combined with innovative business practices has the power to literally save and enrich lives. Building Backwards to Biotech will make it easier for interested individuals to bring this kind of work to a waiting world.
About the facilitator
Andrea Ippolito Is a Lecturer in the College of Engineering and SC Johnson College of Business, having taught Product Management, Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists, and Managing a Culture of Innovation. She has testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business to share policy recommendations to push for additional support for diverse innovators in America. She currently serves as the CEO and Founder of SimpliFed. Previously, Andrea served as the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Innovators Network within the VA Center for Innovation where she designed and oversaw the creation of a $10.5M program that provides the tools and resources to VA employees to develop innovations. Prior to that role, Andrea served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow based out of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and General Services Administration. Ms. Ippolito completed her MS in Engineering & Management at MIT after working as a Research Scientist within the Corporate Technology Development group at Boston Scientific. She holds a BS in Biological Engineering ’06 and MEng in Biomedical Engineering ’07 from Cornell University.
Hosted in partnership with
Women Entrepreneurs in STEM at Cornell (W.E. Cornell)
Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA)
Cornell Institute for Food Systems (CIFS)
Cornell Division of Nutritional Sciences
Center for Life Science Ventures
Entrepreneurship at Cornell
Careers Beyond Academia

Building Allyship Series
2022-11-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
The Building Allyship Series is a collaboration of the Graduate and Professional Student Diversity Council and the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement (OISE).
This series provides an opportunity for members of the Cornell community to gain insights into the depth and breadth of identities and experiences represented within our graduate community and engage in productive dialogue focused on fostering a greater understanding of the many aspects of critical allyship and its practice.Each event seeks to create a safe space for critical dialogue where we can bridge gaps in knowledge, learn from each other, and create understanding without fear of judgment.

Careers Beyond Academia Information Session
2022-11-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Does your career plan need a tune-up? Join us in a small group session to find out how we can help you! Get the most out of Careers Beyond Academia. If you are interested in exploring your options and want to meet colleagues who are considering careers outside of a traditional tenure-track role, sign up for a small group session. Bring your questions, share your career aspirations and trepidations, receive guidance on how to get started on your career search, and specific advice on how to approach your advisor or make a career decision. We’ll exchange tips, tricks, and tools to efficiently explore your options, build your skills and take action to prepare for your future. Feel free to pop in anytime during this hour that suits your schedule.

Multicultural Academic Council (MAC) Monthly Meeting
2022-11-15 15:00 - 16:30 | 102 Mann Library, 237 Mann Drive, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
The MAC (Multicultural Academic Council) Mentoring Program is a collaboration of MAC and the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement (OISE).
MAC is a graduate student organization focused on ensuring that doctoral students, especially from those backgrounds historically underrepresented in academia, can connect with peer mentors and develop positive strategies for excelling academically and personally throughout their graduate career and beyond.
Peer Mentors: MAC invites doctoral students going into their third year or beyond and postdoctoral fellows/associates to apply to serve as peer mentors to support the success and professional development of first-year doctoral students.
Mentees: MAC invites first- and second-year doctoral students to apply to participate in the MAC Mentoring Program as mentees, which brings senior graduate students and postdocs together with beginning graduate students for monthly discussion sessions focused on common issues faced by early career graduate students.
The MAC Mentoring Program runs on a late September through late March schedule.
This meeting’s topic: Getting the most out of your advisor/advisee relationship

Financial Literacy
2022-11-14 14:00 - 15:00 | 102 Mann Library, 237 Mann Drive, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
On Monday, Nov. 14th, Careers Beyond Academia will host an alumnus come to speak to anyone who wants to get exposure to Financial Literacy! The session will be held in 102 Mann Library at 2:00pm ET. During this session, the speaker will target various topics such as Budgeting, Why to Invest, How to Invest, etc.
If you answer “No” to any of the below questions, we highly encourage you to attend the meeting:
1) Do you have a credit card?
2) Do you know the best way to raise your credit score?
3) Have you ever followed a budgeting plan?
4) Are you familiar with Inflation vs Compounding?
5) Do you know about the different types of Investment Accounts? Taxable, ROTH, 529, etc.
6) Do you know the pros and cons between types of Investments? Stock, Bond, ETFs, Mutual Funds, etc.
7) Do you have a plan to reach Financial Independency?
The goal of this session is to have an interactive and somewhat entertaining meeting that will cover crucial topics anyone should know before heading into the workforce.
If you are interested in coming, please use this link to sign up: Cornell Careers Beyond Academia || Sign up to Learn Financial Literacy
About the speaker
Chase Wickenheiser’19 & Cornell Football Alum, has been speaking on Cornell’s campus for the past 3-semesters to the Athletic Department, and come this year, now also the Law School, Vet School, and Graduate School; he has offered to open this education to our group.

MAC (Multicultural Academic Council) Monthly Meeting
2022-11-09 15:30 - 17:00 | NY
The MAC (Multicultural Academic Council) Mentoring Program is a collaboration of MAC and the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement (OISE).
MAC is a graduate student organization focused on ensuring that doctoral students, especially from those backgrounds historically underrepresented in academia, can connect with peer mentors and develop positive strategies for excelling academically and personally throughout their graduate career and beyond.
Peer Mentors: MAC invites doctoral students going into their third year or beyond and postdoctoral fellows/associates to apply to serve as peer mentors to support the success and professional development of first-year doctoral students.
Mentees: MAC invites first- and second-year doctoral students to apply to participate in the MAC Mentoring Program as mentees, which brings senior graduate students and postdocs together with beginning graduate students for monthly discussion sessions focused on common issues faced by early career graduate students.
The MAC Mentoring Program runs on a late September through late March schedule.
