In the talk 'The Future of Small' July 6, Professor Paul McEuen discussed the importance of the very small and how the tiny just may help solve some very big problems. (July 12, 2011)
On a drizzly gray day, visitors were cheered Oct. 23 by a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cornell Plantations Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center at the Mullestein Winter garden, next to Plantations Road. (Oct. 27, 2009)
Oceanographer Chuck Greene is working to optimize an ocean-observing tool to collect and transmit ecosystem data to his desktop in real time, tracking the ocean like the weather. (Jan. 5, 2012)
For Cornell's second annual Fuel Cell Ride and Drive, representatives from Toyota, GM and Mercedes-Benz publicly displayed each company's hydrogen fuel-cell car prototype. (Oct. 20, 2009)
The Campus Savings and Efficiencies Committee says that improving efficiency in e-SHOP as well as in printing and energy use will be among the university's first cost-saving efforts. (Feb. 16, 2009)
The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future’s Academic Venture Fund has awarded $1.5 million to a range of projects that will provide sustainable solutions around the world, from the Finger Lakes to the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia.
A team from Cornell has won the Ed Bacon Competition, a student urban design challenge, for the second straight year, with a plan for an international exposition in Philadelphia in 2026. (Dec. 10, 2010)
Severe winter weather outbreaks are more likely due in part to the seemingly far-off problem of melting sea ice in the Arctic, according to Cornell earth scientists.
After eight years of Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania, residents still have mixed feelings about it, report researchers at Cornell's Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference, Dec. 13. (Dec. 14, 2011)
A conference at Cornell June 3 included planners and architects, discussing how compact, walker- and biker-friendly communities with high-performance buildings would help the energy, climate crises. (June 16, 2011)