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Startup aiming to reduce plastic reliance joins Cornell incubator

June 10, 2024

RETRN Bio, a startup aspiring to use ag waste to replace petroleum-based plastic liners in consumer products, has joined Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures incubator.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Food & Agriculture

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

NYS Impact

Summer Research Students Explore Cutting-Edge Science

August 12, 2024

Through engaging research projects, technical lecture series, and hands-on learning, thirty students from institutions across the United States and Puerto Rico are taking their studies to the next level of research excellence.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Around Cornell

Satellite images of plants’ fluorescence can predict crop yields

May 1, 2024

Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a new framework that allows scientists to predict crop yield without the need for enormous amounts of high-quality data – which is often scarce in developing countries, especially those facing heightened food insecurity and climate risk.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Food & Agriculture

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Global Reach

Law, Government & Public Policy

UV light treats beet disease, combats fungicide resistance

April 29, 2024

Germicidal ultraviolet light is effective at killing a damaging fungus that infects table beets, adding an important organic tool to fight the growing problem of fungicide resistance, according to a new Cornell study.

Food & Agriculture

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

NYS Impact

NYS solar work: Good for climate, but are they good jobs?

April 26, 2024

A report from the ILR School’s Climate Justice Institute finds significant issues in New York state’s solar construction workforce, including transience, uncertain benefits and racial pay disparities.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Law, Government & Public Policy

NYS Impact

News & Events

New York City

Public Engagement

ESG strategies for corporate sustainable development

May 1, 2023

In a recent webcast, industry leaders shared corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies for achieving sustainable development goals that protect the environment, increase revenue and improve customer loyalty.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

‘Worst case scenario’ – Canadian wildfires could impact NY all summer

June 29, 2023

Max Zhang, a professor of engineering at Cornell University, says we’ve seen wildfire smoke pollution in New York before, but the exposure this June could point to future concerns.

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Students help Ithaca building owners see progress on emissions

May 29, 2024

Since 2016, students have worked to calculate and share the progress of the Ithaca 2030 District, an initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of Ithaca’s commercial buildings.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

NYS Impact

News & Events

Public Engagement

Low-cost microbe can speed biological discovery

February 13, 2024

To conduct low-cost and scalable synthetic biological experiments, Cornell researchers have created a new version of a microbe to compete economically with E. coli – a bacteria used to synthesize proteins.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering