While Cornellians reported that the university’s carbon footprint strategies were working, the campus still had a long road to meet its sustainability goals by 2050.
Community members, students, professors and activists came together April 5 to discuss the world food crisis and to plan such collective actions as writing letters to federal lawmakers. (April 9, 2009)
David M. Lodge, the Francis J. DiSalvo Director of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future discusses his priorities in the coming year and how the center is making an impact around the world.
Cornell researchers are working hard to eradicate plum pox virus from New York as it can destroy orchards of peaches, plums and apricots. (Sept. 8, 2010)
Cornell received three grants, one for $3.5 million, to collect data on the biology of the Great Lakes, information that continues long-term datasets and provides current measures for researchers, fishery managers and policy makers.
DesignTeach is a youth outreach program that introduces teenagers to the concepts and skills of landscape architecture. A first-year student discusses its influence on her.
The month of April on campus is sprinkled with more than 30 public events related to sustainability activities at Cornell, across the basic themes of energy, environment and economic development.
A team led by Ikhide Imumorin, Cornell assistant professor of animal genetics and genomics, is the first to apply a new, inexpensive genomics technique to cattle called genotyping-by-sequencing.