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Lindsay France/Cornell University McGraw tower in summer from the Alpha Phi Alpha Centennial Memorial bench.
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

Cornell Atkinson awards catalyze solutions in food, climate, clean energy

Cornell Chronicle

Atkinson Venture Fund awards have distributed $21.7 million to 223 projects spanning every college on Cornell’s campus over 15 years.

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Simon Wheeler for Cornell University 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’s 15th anniversary celebration.
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

Cornell Atkinson at 15: celebrating science, fostering hope

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s 15th-anniversary conference addressed past successes and future efforts to support climate and sustainability.

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Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

Day-long conference celebrates Cornell Atkinson at 15

Cornell Chronicle

The evening panel will be moderated by Anne Thompson, NBC News’ chief environmental affairs correspondent and the spring 2025 Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist.

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Ecology and evolutionary biology

Cornell Atkinson awards support graduate student biodiversity and sustainability research

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell Atkinson is supporting 36 graduate students – including some in A&S – whose work protects biodiversity, improves health, reduces climate risk and more.

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Provided 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.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

What you need to know about carbon capture, utilization and storage

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers Greeshma Gadikota, Phil Milner and Tobias Hanrath discuss their carbon capture research, including a new experimental CAPTURE-Lab at Cornell’s Combined Heat and Power Plant.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Kavya Mittha ’26, left, and Aisha Brundan ’25, working for Prof. Maha Haji, test their bobbing buoy wave energy converter at the DeFrees Hydraulics Lab in Hollister Hall.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

2030 Project Fast Grant awards support energy systems of the future

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers from five colleges, including Arts and Sciences, have received awards to support work on sustainable energy systems.

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Credit: Natalia Roa Lopez/Provided 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.
Ecology and Environmental Biology

Beekeeping, hydropower: Cornell Atkinson awards nearly $1M in grants

Cornell Chronicle

Alison Power, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will study adaptive agricultural landscapes in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

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Jason Rohr/Provided Researchers and community members gather ceratophyllum demersum from a water access point in northern Senegal.
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

Dead & Company concert funds $800K for new climate solutions

Cornell Chronicle

One year since Dead & Company’s 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.

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Cheyenne Reuben-Thomas, a doctoral student in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology, does field work on land management.
Sustainability

Grad student grants support sustainability, biodiversity

Cornell Chronicle

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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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Researchers win grants to remove carbon from air, manufacturing

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell Atkinson faculty fellow Phillip Milner has won a Carbontech Development Initiative grants to develop carbon removal technologies.

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Atkinson Center

Cornell Atkinson awards $1.6M in seed grants

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s Academic Venture Fund will support 11 new projects across nine colleges; three include Arts & Sciences investigators.

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Sustainability

Cornell Atkinson awards $1.4 million to new sustainability projects

Cornell Chronicle

This year’s Academic Venture Fund (AVF) seed grants for research support equitable and sustainable development, offshore wind energy, and improved indoor air quality.

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Matt Hayes/Provided Senior lecturer Mark Sarvary instructs a student during class in 2017.
Education Innovation

Students want some online learning features in ‘new normal’

Cornell Chronicle

“Almost 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.”

Interdisciplinary

Cross-college Program in Environment and Sustainability launches

Cornell Chronicle

The expanded environmental and sustainability sciences major is now available to students in both the College of Arts & Sciences and CALS.

Sociology

Gender gap found in Ph.D. fields and in program prestige

Cornell Chronicle

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.

Molecular Biology & Genetics

Human DNA influences gut bacteria

Cornell Chronicle

A new study sheds light on the interactions between microbes, genetics and diet in the human microbiome.