Resist Cynicism: A New Year’s Resolution to Help Solve Climate Change

Bayu Ahmad (Chemistry & Chemical Biology)

…to reduce future climate risk. Current carbon capture technologies are mainly based on amine-based scrubbers, which face challenges such as susceptibility to oxygen and water and large parasitic energy costs….

Innovations to Build Sustainable, Equitable, Inclusive Food Value Chains

Partners

Partnering to Turn Knowledge Into Impact At Cornell Atkinson, we leverage our Innovation for Impact Fund to build partnerships with non-profits, companies, and government agencies to catalyze solutions for the…

Funding

Catalyzing Innovative Research for Impact We provide both short- and long-term funding, often in partnership with other organizations, for novel and sometimes high-risk, high-reward research. By reaching across the university,…

Kendra Kintzi

…Social Equity in Southwest Asia’s Renewable Energy Transition From electricity protests in Jordan and Lebanon to the creation of renewable ‘smart’ cities in Saudi Arabia, the region of Southwest Asia…

Lara Roeven (Global Development)

The Impact of Biocultural-Heritage Conservation on Farmer-to-Farmer Seed Exchange and Social Inequality in the Peruvian Andes Advisor: Rachel Bezner Kerr Throughout her dissertation project she explores agrobiodiversity conservation, farmers’ seed…

Oppenheimer: Impartial Scientist or Advocate?

Monica Contestabile

…first social science editor at Nature Research. She has handled original research and review articles across the entire breadth of social sciences, and interdisciplinary articles integrating natural and social science…

Leah Valdes (Entomology)

Social Bees and Disease: Bumble Bee Sociality Affects the Distribution of Disease in Diverse Pollinator Communities Advisor: Scott McArt Bees provide essential pollination services to terrestrial ecosystems, therefore their decline…