Summit focuses on the campus as a living laboratory – a place where sustainability solutions are developed, studied, implemented and evaluated.

As an Administrative Assistant & Student Services Representative, Marianne champions sustainability personally and in her work on the Green Ambassadors team.

Cornell Campus Sustainability Office | Fall 2018

Sustainability Life Recipe Series

Cornell Chronicle | Sherrie Negrea,  March 2, 2017

A new smartphone app, Humble Bee, will engage and motivate students to change their behavior to improve sustainability on campus. “The problem hasn’t been engaging staff – it’s been engaging students,” said Casey Franklin, a doctoral student in human behavior and design. “How do we reach a new generation that would rather play Pokémon Go than look at our sustainability website?”

Pawprint | January 26, 2017
Staff commended and provided with new tools to act as the front-line eyes and ears of creating a welcoming campus.

Two of Cornell’s programs were found to be particularly relevant: the university’s faculty tenure clock-stop policy for families with new dependents and the financial support faculty can receive to defray the cost for their dependents to accompany them on professional travel or to arrange home care for dependents while the faculty member travels.