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Students study next to Ezra cornell statue

The university launched two new initiatives to create a more inclusive workplace experience July 1.

Dyce Lab for Honey Bee Studies

Solar farms are known to offer a ready source of green energy. But could they also offer ecological and economic benefits as pollinator-friendly habitats?

Livestock herders in Tajikstan

The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future’s Academic Venture Fund (AVF) supports collaborations that cut across disciplines to address today’s greatest sustainability challenges.

Testing water at Buttermilk Falls

Testing a new water monitoring technology that, if approved by New York state and federal authorities, could drastically reduce the time state park swim areas must close when water is suspected of being unswimmable.

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A former Bethlehem Steel site being rehabilitated as a business park in Lackawanna, New York, stands as an example of sustainable redevelopment and the impact a local government can have on climate change.

Everybody Eats co-founders

Everybody Eats, a social startup created by Cornell students which plans to debut this fall, hopes to offer reduced-price food delivery service through collaborations with local restaurants to try and combat food insecurity faced by low-income families.

Student parking his bike

The (free!) 2018 Ithaca & Tompkins County Bike Map is a user-friendly, full-color road map and now includes road suitability ratings, recommended rides, and info on bike sharing and rentals.

Overhead view of the cornell tech campus in Manhattan

Rooftop solar on two buildings at the Cornell Tech campus will produce 995 MWHs of clean energy annually.

Ron Wolverton

At the 63rd annual Service Recognition Dinner June 5, Cornell President Martha E. Pollack and Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Mary Opperman paid tribute to 250 staff members who began working at Cornell 25, 30, 35, 40 or more years ago.

Shore erosion in Hamlin

Three grants from the New York Sea Grant (NYSG), a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) program, will aid Cornell coastal science research projects along the Great Lakes.