Assistant professor of architecture Kevin B. Pratt, noted for his expertise in sustainable design and his enthusiasm and energy as a teacher and colleague, died Feb. 19 of natural causes. He was 43.
At an Inside Cornell media event Sept. 20 in New York City, Professor David Wolfe reviewed how quickly the globe is warming and how New York can better prepare. (Sept. 23, 2011)
Frank DiSalvo, the J.A. Newman Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been reappointed to a three-year term as director of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future effective July 1. (Sept. 12, 2012)
About 40 faculty and staff members gathered in the Biotechnology Building March 1 to kick off a universitywide initiative to coordinate and support sustainability efforts on campus. (March 3, 2011)
Every Tuesday afternoon, organic produce grown on Cornell's Dilmun Hill Student Organic Farm is sold on the Ag Quad. The farm also hosts work parties where volunteers can help farm and buy vegetables. (July 11, 2008)
A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Employing powerful genome sequencing tools, Cornell scientists have gained new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste. (Feb. 24, 2011)
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Binghamton, N.Y., Mayor Matt Ryan helped kick off a summer youth employment initiative, an urban farm, as part of the Community Improvement Through Youth Project. (July 16, 2010)
Though biofuels from algae hold great promise, Cornell researchers find that more innovation is needed to make the technology economically and energetically viable at a commercial scale.