• Faculty Adviser, Dual degree in City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture
• Co-Chair, Cornell University Campus Planning Committee
• Cornell University Campus Master Planning Committtee
• International Studies in Planning Program  
• College of Art, Architecture, and Planning Visual Resources Committee
• CRP Masters program admissions committee

Selected conference presentations (peer reviewed abstracts)

• Organizer, Pre-organized session: Public spaces and the role of the planner, 2009 ACSP Conference, Washington DC
• Schmidt, S. and Nemeth, J. “Comparing publicly and privately owned spaces in NYC”, Paper and presentation, ACSP Conference, October, 2009, Washington DC
• Schmidt, S. "Post-Socialist Sprawl: Explaining land consumption patterns in east and west Germany." Paper and presentation , Joint ACSP-AESOP Conference, July 2008, Chicago, Ilinois.
• Schmidt, S. "Recent development in German land use planning tools." Paper and presentation, Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning, October 2007, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Schmidt, S. "Local planning practices in the US and Germany: A comparative study."  Paper and presentation, Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning, October 2006, Ft. Worth, Texas (Electronic copy of working paper available here)
• Schmidt, S. "Open space and the 'ratables' chase: preservation as a tool for fiscal planning." Paper and presentation, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, October 2005, Kansas City, Missouri.
• Schmidt, "Nature in the suburbs: The determinants of local open space preservation." Paper and presentation, Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning, October 2004, Portland, Oregon.

• CRP 408/508 Introduction to GIS for planners

• CRP 354/554 Introduction to Environmental Planning

• CRP 384/585 Green Cities

• CRP 395/585 Comparative Urban Development: The European Case