Using algae for biofuels and harvesting wind energy around buildings are two of the five workshops and seven research projects funded by the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future. (Oct. 21, 2008)
At the first switchgrass field day Sept. 10, farmers and others learned about the status of Cornell studies designed to determine which field grasses have the best potential for biofuel. (Oct. 2, 2008)
Anthony Shelton, Cornell professor of entomology, has co-edited the new book, which informs the debate about using transgenic crops to control pests. (Sept. 29, 2008)
In a Cornell Perspectives piece, Johnson School Dean L. Joseph Thomas discusses the silver lining of high oil prices for U.S. manufacturing. (Sept. 29, 2008)
On Sept. 24 President David Skorton recognized the work staff members have done on campus initiatives in safety, health, emergency preparedness, sustainability and environment risk management. (Sept. 24, 2008)
On Sept. 19, Cornell's chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects transformed a metered parking space on College Avenue into a mini park for the day to observe National Park(ing) Day. (Sept. 24, 2008)
A conference at Cornell promotes 'podcars' that would move people quickly and efficiently enough to convince them to leave their cars home. (Sept. 16, 2008)
Cornell's first greenhouse gas inventory reveals that the university expects to reduce its central utilities emissions by almost one-third by 2010 -- far exceeding its goal of being 7 percent below 1990 carbon emission levels by 2012. (Sept. 16, 2008)
Cornell is now a member of the Great Lakes-Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, which involves research in biological, physical, social and cultural sciences needed to study ecosystems in North America. (Sept. 15, 2008)
A group of engineering management master's students dedicated their fall 2007 master of engineering project to a case study for increasing energy efficiency in Cornell buildings. (Sept. 11, 2008)
Greg Budney, audio curator of the Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, traveled to Guatemala's Peten region to inventory bird species and collect audio recordings at two pre-Columbian Mayan archaeological sites. (Sept. 9, 2008)
