New grant funding will support eight research projects seeking to reduce AI鈥檚 energy use and integrate AI in environmental research.
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With support from Cornell Atkinson, students conducted fieldwork at an experimental cattle ranch in Florida, studying how plant structures influence methane transport and how deep soil layers affect methane production.
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With support from Cornell Atkinson, graduate students mentored undergraduates to conduct summer research on methane mitigation, food security and climate forecasting.
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Ethan Duvall, an inaugural Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellow, co-founded a nonprofit in the Ecuadorian Amazon to strengthen green economic opportunities.
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Ethan Duvall, an inaugural Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellow, has launched a nonprofit aimed at protecting biodiversity and culture in the Amazon Rainforest.
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McGraw tower in summer from the Alpha Phi Alpha Centennial Memorial bench.
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Atkinson Venture Fund awards have distributed $21.7 million to 223 projects spanning every college on Cornell鈥檚 campus over 15 years.
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Anne Thompson of NBC News, Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund, and David Lodge, the Francis J. DiSalvo Director of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability (left to right) discuss the value of visionary partnerships between Cornell Atkinson and organizations such as EDF on April 10 during Cornell Atkinson鈥檚 15th anniversary celebration.
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The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability鈥檚 15th-anniversary conference addressed past successes and future efforts to support climate and sustainability.
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The evening panel will be moderated by Anne Thompson, NBC News鈥 chief environmental affairs correspondent and the spring 2025 Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist.
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Cornell Atkinson is supporting 36 graduate students 鈥撀爄ncluding some in A&S 鈥 whose work protects biodiversity, improves health, reduces climate risk and more.
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Cornell's Combined Heat and Power Plant will provide researchers access to real-world flue gas emissions as home to the CAPTURE-Lab, an experimental facility that will explore carbon capture and industrial decarbonization.
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Cornell researchers Greeshma Gadikota, Phil Milner and Tobias Hanrath discuss their carbon capture research, including a new experimental CAPTURE-Lab at Cornell鈥檚 Combined Heat and Power Plant.
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Kavya Mittha 鈥26, left, and Aisha Brundan 鈥25, working for Prof. Maha Haji, test their bobbing buoy wave energy converter at the DeFrees Hydraulics Lab in Hollister Hall.
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Researchers from five colleges, including Arts and 麻豆视频, have received awards to support work on sustainable energy systems.
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Local beekeepers and researchers examine an open log with a Melipona favosa nest during a workshop led by ABC Colombia on how to transfer colonies to artificial hives to facilitate management and honey harvest.
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Alison Power, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will study adaptive agricultural landscapes in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
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Researchers and community members gather ceratophyllum demersum from a water access point in northern Senegal.
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One year since Dead & Company鈥檚 iconic show at Barton Hall, proceeds from the fundraiser have begun to flow to its climate-fighting recipients, including Phillip Milner, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology.
Cheyenne Reuben-Thomas, a doctoral student in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology, does field work on land management.
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Thirty-one graduate students across three colleges, including A&S, have been awarded research grants from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
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Cornell Atkinson faculty fellow Phillip Milner has won a Carbontech Development Initiative grants to develop carbon removal technologies.
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability鈥檚 Academic Venture Fund will support 11 new projects across nine colleges; three include Arts & 麻豆视频 investigators.
鈥 year鈥檚 Academic Venture Fund (AVF) seed grants for research support equitable and sustainable development, offshore wind 鈥 Improving indoor air quality, supporting equitable and sustainable development, and 鈥
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Senior lecturer Mark Sarvary instructs a student during class in 2017.
鈥淎lmost everyone has enjoyed being back in person and having that sense of community, but Zoom and other technologies are still powerful tools in our arsenal.鈥
Researchers found that the share of men receiving their degrees from the most prestigious doctoral programs is about 6 percent higher than the share receiving their degrees from all other programs.
