Cornell to host carbon neutrality forum March 28

Cornell's Senior Leaders Climate Action Group will host a public forum March 28 to discuss "Options for Achieving a Carbon Neutral Campus by 2035" from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Hotel Ithaca.

Cornell buttons up, battens down during winter storm

A nor’easter, combined with a winter storm from the Great Lakes, bore down on the Northeast Tuesday and Wednesday. For the first time in three years, Cornell closed the Ithaca campus due to a snow storm.

Cornell hosts Hong Kong sustainability meeting April 6-7

Cornell will host "Sustainability in Asia: Partnerships for Research and Implementation," a conference about sustainability research and community engagement in Hong Kong, April 6-7.

Barn swallow behavior shift may be evolutionary

A new population of barn swallows near Buenos Aires, established only about 30 years ago, has adapted both its migration cycle and its breeding cycle in a dramatically short time.

'Servant-leader' role suits Weber-Shirk, AguaClara program

Students teach students and make many of the key decisions in AguaClara, a program that for more than a decade has helped communities in Honduras have potable running water.

AguaClara opens its 14th Honduras plant, debuts micro system

AguaClara has opened its 14th water processing plant in Honduras, and has expanded its reach into that country's smallest villages with development of a new, compact system.

Doctoral student named Future Leader in Science

Ann Bybee-Finley, a second-year doctoral student at Cornell studying cropping systems resilience with a focus on Northeastern dairy producers, has been named a 2017 Future Leader in Science.

Grant explores using seminal fluid proteins to control mosquitoes

Cornell researchers are exploring a new approach to reducing the spread of mosquito-borne viruses through seminal fluid proteins from male mosquitoes that disrupt the reproductive biology in females.

Gregory Poe, expert in environmental economics, dies at 56

Gregory Poe, professor of applied economics and management, died unexpectedly March 11 at his home in Ithaca. His work focused on applied welfare economics, nonmarket valuation, experimental economics and water pollution policy.