Awarded graduate students will study sustainability, biodiversity, accelerating energy transitions, advancing human health, increasing food security or addressing climate change.
Two Cornell Engineering undergraduates are working to make arrays of wave energy converters – devices catch the waves and turn them into electricity – and move the technology closer to actuality.
John W. Fitzpatrick, who led the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for 26 years, earns high honors for a lifetime of groundbreaking work in the study of birds. He is the recipient of the James Madison Medal, an alumni award presented by Princeton University.
Decades before any probe dips a toe – and thermometer – into the waters of distant ocean worlds, Cornell astrobiologists have devised a way to determine ocean temperatures based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space.
Andrew Reid Bell will join the Department of Global Development at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences as the inaugural Schleifer Family Professor of Sustainability, effective July 1, 2024.
Carolyn Fornoff explores how contemporary Mexican writers, filmmakers and visual artists have reacted to climate change in her book "Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change."
The long-standing student dance group – committed to spreading the joys of Punjabi culture and dance – invites the Cornell and Ithaca community to its annual Bhangra showcase, the 21st PAO Bhangra, on March 16.
A Millard Meiss Publication Fund award will support the publication of Kelly Presutti's "Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France.”
The initiative has supported faculty initiatives ranging from a project to design indigenous seed storage; a documentary on rural LGBT life; and the development of architectural designs for a new elderly center for the Onondaga Nation.