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.
Climate Week NYC will get a Big Red tint as Cornell researchers suggest carbon solutions for the travel industry, discuss agricultural methane and participate in a nuclear energy conference.
Led by College of Architecture, Art and Planning experts, “Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity in Practice” seeks to help communities center justice principles while implementing sustainability strategies.
The university has announced a realignment within the Office of the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer designed to improve long-term financial oversight and cross-campus coordination between Ithaca and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.
A symposium led by the Department of Communication brought together more than 100 scholars, students and community members to discuss topics such as histories of media and propaganda, content moderation on social media, public opinion as freedom of expression, and how freedom of expression relates to our other core values and responsibilities as a university.
Cornell will provide a $4 million annual voluntary contribution to the City of Ithaca – an increase of $2.4 million – under a long-term extension of their Memorandum of Understanding approved Oct. 11 by the Ithaca Common Council and Oct. 13 by the executive committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees.
President Martha E. Pollack issued a statement, committing to Cornell’s “core values,” following the Supreme Court’s decision June 29 to strike down admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.