María Pacheco, M.P.S. ’90, a Fulbright scholar, consultant to the United Nations Foundation, founded Wakami, a company changing the way craftspeople enter the international market.
Cornell is offering a four-week Summer Study Abroad Program July 5-31 on ecological design in London and Paris. Students can earn eight credits. (Nov. 11, 2009)
At the President’s Sustainable Campus Committee fall summit Nov. 12, Elizabeth Garrett underscored the university’s commitment to addressing climate change by announcing formation of the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group.
Juan Hinestroza and his students live in a cotton-soft nano world, where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria, captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses.
Cornell University's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Environmental Defense Fund announced four new research projects addressing pressing health and environmental issues Nov. 9. The projects mark the official launch of a new partnership between the two institutions.
Author Peter Matthiessen will present the 2012 Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture on 'Big Oil and Our First Climate Change Refugees,' April 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. (April 10, 2012)
Scientists have developed an inexpensive, environmentally friendly way of synthesizing oxide crystal sheets, which have useful properties for electronics and alternative energy applications. (April 10, 2012)
With support from Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, faculty members are researching harmful molds in food that damage the health of African mothers and babies.
There's still disagreement on "global warming," Cornell and USC researchers discover, but a frosty winter is building support for the concept of "climate change."
ILR students worked over the summer to help reinvigorate the Buffalo, N.Y., economy through The High Road Runs Through the City service-learning program. (Aug. 23, 2011)