The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future's Academic Venture Fund awarded $1.8 million in 2017, with 15 grants to seed novel approaches to some of the world's greatest sustainability challenges.
Cornell University received two one-year institutional development grants for stem cell research from the state of New York as part of $14.5 million in similar awards granted statewide Jan. 7. (Jan. 16, 2008)
George Malliaras, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been named the L.B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility, and Don Tennant of Lucent Technologies will be director of operations.
Khaliq Gant has not worn a basketball uniform since a career-ending injury in January 2006. But he's still part of a team that went from just one winning season in nine years to winning Ivy League championships. (March 19, 2009)
Alice Pell, international professor of animal science, was named director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development, effective July 1.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed funding for the Cornell IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems. The new award of $3,338,800 will provide two-year graduate fellowships of $27,500 a year for 30 students over the next five years, beginning with 12 new students in the fall of 2004. The funds also will provide computer services and general support for the program offices. This is an extension of a previous five-year program launched in 1998. IGERT is NSF's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program for training a diverse group of scientists and engineers to take advantage of a broad spectrum of career options. More than 100 programs at doctorate-granting institutions are involved, including a second IGERT program at Cornell in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity. (December 5, 2003)
Interest in gardening will germinate at a Cornell workshop July 22 at the Schurman Hall/Education Center (Cornell Veterinary College). The workshop's theme is "Cultivating Community Through Youth Gardening."