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.
Arthur DeGaetano, director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, and climatologists Jessica Spaccio and Samantha Borisoff are available for interviews about Hurricane Florence and can discuss landfall probabilities, past similar storms, and anticipated impacts.
It’s got Finger Lakes hops, malt and cherries, plus Cornell maple syrup. Introducing ‘Gorges Libe-ation,’ a red ale developed by grad students and chock full of New York.
A team of scientists at the Center for Bright Beams – a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center led by Cornell – are working on the next generation of superconducting materials.
Prompted by Cornell research, the Standard Hydrogen Corp. and National Grid announced plans March 11 to build the first hydrogen “energy station” of its kind in the nation.
Mimi Prober will serve as designer-in-residence at the Jill Stuart Gallery from Oct. 13 to Nov. 9. She will meet with students, critique their work and exhibit her own. She will also create a new garment made from pieces that were slated to be retired from the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection.
On the island of Kaua‘i, six native bird species recently experienced collapses coinciding with a sharp increase in mosquitoes and malaria. Dr. Katherine McClure is working to save Hawai’i’s native bird populations from this disease, specifically the Hawaiian honeycreepers.
John Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and an expert on conservation biology is available for interviews to discuss federal government plans to drastically reduce habitat protections in Western states for the sage grouse.
Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory has tapped into the university’s Lake Source Cooling system, which uses cold water from Cayuga Lake to remove heat from the district chilled water loop that cools most Cornell facilities.
