Actor and environmental activist Ted Danson delivered the 2015 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture “Fish Tales: How Ocean Conservation Became My Passion” on campus April 20.
Artist and design professor Jack Elliott's new installation at the College of Human Ecology features classical plaster casts, new works of sculpture and the remains of a 150-year-old tree.
Cornell Dining will serve sustainably certified seafood in two eateries, with plans to expand the program to all campus dining outlets by 2015. (Aug. 16, 2012)
Cornell's SRI-Rice Center is helping West African countries scale-up their environmentally friendly, highly productive rice cropping methods. (Aug. 13, 2012)
Paul Alivisatos, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of nanotechnology at University of California-Berkeley, is this year's Hans A. Bethe lecturer. (Sept. 21, 2011)
National and regional biofuel, biopower and bioproducts experts will convene in Syracuse for the Northeast Sun Grant 2010 Regional Conference, hosted by Cornell, May 24-26. (May 10, 2010)
Two negatives – cow manure and flies – can make a positive. Cornell animal scientists, entomologists and a business professor will examine the environmental impact and commercial potential of quickly processing dairy cow manure with fly larvae. And then using the dried larvae to feed other farm animals.
The doctoral student in Cornell's Department of Natural Resources, will spend one year working for the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources as a Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow for 2012. (Jan. 5, 2012)
Jacqueline Novogratz will present a free lecture on Sept. 27, based on her best-selling memoir, 'The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World.' (Sept. 13, 2010)