Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus earns bragging rights when the world's first high-rise residential building built to passive house standards - a rigorous energy use standard - rises on campus.
Even more violent food riots and overthrown governments are predicted in a new book edited by Cornell's Christopher B. Barrett, “Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability.”
Using 15 months of energy research conducted by Cornell students, the Tompkins County Planning Department unveiled ideas Oct. 21 to substantially reduce the county's carbon footprint by 2050.
As Cornell considers geothermal heat to warm campus, an Icelandic engineer told a green backstory for how his country abandoned coal and then set standards to achieve blue-ribbon blue skies.
Warming up to a brisk idea to save building energy, the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Cornell researchers a $3 million grant to create new clothes that integrate "air-conditioning" into undergarments.
Cornell University’s entry for the International Genetically Engineered Machine synthetic biology competition earned three prizes and a gold medal at the 12th annual iGEM Giant Jamboree in Boston.
Connecting upstate and downstate, urban and rural, a pavilion made from reused metal grain bins opened to the public June 23 on Governors Island in lower New York Harbor. Four Cornell faculty members collaborated on the project with a team including students and alumni.
Blue forms adorning the Ag Quad are more than whimsical art to engage passersbys: the shapes are visions of what landfill architecture might look like in the future, according to Katherine Jenkins.