Alistair Hayden, a professor of practice in public and ecosystem health and a former division chief at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, comments on Canadian wildfire smoke reaching the U.S. and how to improve a national response to future smoke waves.
Rick Geddes, director of the Cornell University Program in Infrastructure Policy, comments on new rules approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for building-out and updating the nation's electric grid.
Rick Geddes, director of the Cornell University Program in Infrastructure Policy, comments on the significance of forthcoming rules for nationwide transmission grid reform.
John Tobin, professor of practice at Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business and a former Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainability at Credit Suisse, comments on climate negotiations between the U.S. and China.
Tuskegee University has become the latest partner of the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS), a Science and Technology Center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation aimed at developing tools to communicate with plants and the associated organisms that make up their microbiomes.
A recently piloted bilateral exchange course is providing new engaged learning opportunities for students from Ithaca, New York to Quito, Ecuador. The partnership between Cornell University and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Cornell’s Global Hubs partner in Ecuador, is fusing collaboration in the classroom and in the field.
The inaugural Interfaith Service Day provided students with the opportunity to meet people from different backgrounds and faiths while planting trees at Groundswell Incubator Farm.
Through the capstone course Art and Science of the Mohawk River Watershed, a group of environment and sustainability majors studied the river through the lenses of art, science and culture, deepening their understanding of a complex natural system.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology filmmaker Gerrit Vyn has been documenting Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve’s birds and wildlife habitats for a documentary project, “America’s Arctic.” In the wake of a Biden administration announcement blocking oil and gas development in the region, images and video assets are available for media use.