AI-Driven Innovations at the Nexus of Nutrition Science and Climate Resilience

…as NSF. If graduate student tuition is built into the budget, the total tuition cost incurred must be cost-shared equally by Cornell Atkinson and your department or unit. Funds may…

Emily Baker (Global Development)

…of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda. Diversified agroforestry and home garden systems have gendered implications for smallholder social and ecological resilience, livelihoods, and food security. Working…

Juliet Lu

…Chinese firms that have moved into planting and processing across the region. However, while most environmental and social justice advocacy groups have corporate engagement strategies for targeting established market firms,…

Nikita Agarwal (Food Science & Technology)

…and grape juice industry produces over 70 million tons of grape pomace “waste” annually. This low-cost by-product is a rich source of phenolic acids, which leads to soil pollution when…

Seeking Synergistic Opportunities in the Confluence of Soil Health and Urban Agriculture in Circular Bionutrient Systems

…The convening will enable the group to formulate a strategy to advance the urban and peri-urban circular bionutrient economy by building on the group’s collective experience and ideas. The convening…

Ethan Flanagan (Chemistry and Chemical Biology)

…current electrolyzers rely on expensive platinum-group metal catalysts. Anion-exchange membranes (AEM) provide a cost-effective alternative but face challenges in ionic conductivity and alkaline stability. This project builds on a newly…

Michael Vega

…microbial communities influence environmental problems such as water quality and climate change. At Cornell Atkinson, he will study how to improve rice farming sustainability through lenses of environmental engineering, geochemistry,…

Quang Pham (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

…some species, like the desert-dwelling plains spadefoot toad (Spea bombifrons), thrive in arid habitats by evolving adaptive water-conserving strategies. Aquaporins (AQPs), water-channel proteins with diverse, tissue-specific roles, are hypothesized to…

Science Is Easy to Make Fun of and Hard to Live Without

Improved Flood Prediction With Better Hydraulic Simulation

…DEP, watershed managers, conservationists, and municipal water providers to accurately depict hydroclimatic trends, tree-specific water uptake data, and other measures of ecosystem health. Investigators: Taryn Bauerle, Todd Walter, Joe Guinness…