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)
Gail Holst-Warhaft and Tammo Steenhuis traveled to Greece this summer to continue spreading public awareness on severe water shortages in the Mediterranean. (Sept. 4, 2008)
The Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell, launched with a $10 million NSF grant, will apply computer science to problems in managing and allocating natural resources. (Sept. 3, 2008)
A car that gets 100 miles a gallon may sound far-fetched, but the technology is available now, says Cornell's Progressive Automotive X Prize Team. (Aug. 19, 2008)
