The new Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems, or CROPPS, funded by a five-year, $25 million National Science Foundation grant, aims to grow a new field called digital biology.
Aaron Rice, a research associate with the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on a decision by the Trump administration to allow five companies to conduct seismic tests that could harm thousands of whales and other marine life.
Cornell has earned a platinum sustainability rating – the top status – from an international group that tracks environmental stewardship for over 1,000 college campuses.
Cornell Atkinson is calling for proposals for faculty research related to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The center’s Rapid Response Fund will award seed grants of up to $10,000 for projects.
Through a partnership between the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and EDF, four Cornell faculty members have received new grants for regional sustainability projects with global implications.
Peggy Stevens, administrative assistant in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering (BEE), has been nominated as a sustainability champion for engaging faculty, staff and students for input on and participation in increasing office sustainability practices in Riley Robb Hall.
Paul Mutolo, a chemist and director of External Partnerships for the Energy Materials Center at Cornell University, comments on the world's first hydrogen-powered trains, which began service in Germany.
Cornell faculty and students can now champion greener consumer products, supply chains and commercial trade, as the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability began a partnership with The Sustainability Consortium on Jan. 13.
Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University and a faculty fellow at Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future comments on the Trump administration's plans to make it easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere.
