William Jewell, a researcher who pioneered innovative approaches to waste treatment, renewable energy production and groundwater remediation, died Nov. 5, 2024, in Ithaca.
Led by two Cornell graduate students, more than 300 volunteers are heading out into the rain on warm spring nights to help migrating salamanders and frogs.
The new initiative will support finance and insurance innovations that provide producers and agribusinesses with science-based strategies that strengthen soil health, improve water use efficiency, and build farmer resiliency to extreme weather events.
Researchers in Cornell’s Matter of Tech Lab have developed CeraPiper, a fabrication system that creates customized sizes and shapes of ceramic pipes that can be fitted together and filled with water for environmentally friendly evaporative cooling.
Widely cited messages tend to be effective but short-term messaging can only go so far in swaying people regarding the urgency of climate change, an international team led by a Cornell researcher has found.
An interdisciplinary collaboration has developed a way to 3D-print concrete underwater – a technique that could transform on-site maritime construction and the repair of critical infrastructure.
Drew Harvell, a professor emerita of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University and Steven Mana'oakamai Johnson, assistant professor of natural resources and the environment, comment on the die-off of warm-water coral reefs.
