Cornell NutriPhone: Personalized Micronutrient Analysis

A team of Cornell engineers, health experts, and social scientists are developing a smartphone-based system for personalized micronutrient monitoring called the NutriPhone. Inadequate nutrition is responsible for a variety of…

How Can We Realign Academic Research Priorities to Help Solve the World’s Sustainability Challenges?

Leah Crenshaw (Natural Resources and the Environment)

…must identify conservation solutions that meet both social and environmental needs. This challenge is particularly acute for species that rely on working landscapes that also support human livelihoods. Fortunately, agroforestry…

Charles Arthur Tebbutt (Ph.D. Candidate, Natural Resources and the Environment)

Charlie is a social-ecological systems researcher focussed on empowering people as stewards of their own environment. Working primarily with natural latex rubber in the Amazon, he uses bioacoustics to assess…

Andrew N. Stillman

…biodiversity and predict responses to fire under various climates forest conditions and land management scenarios. Working with Viviana Ruiz Gutierrez (Lab of Ornithology) and partners at the USDA Forest Service,…

Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellows

Preparing Early-career Researchers and Business Students for Careers in Sustainability As the scope, pace, and impact of environmental and social issues increase in scale and complexity, there is a growing…

Misaki Saito (MBA ’25)

…are leaders in these programs which aim to restore ecological environments, improve working conditions for farmers and address issues around climate change and biodiversity. Now that some time has elapsed…

Seeding Solar in New York

…This team will investigate how expanding solar capacity will affect New York agriculture. Working closely with landowners, solar energy developers, and local and state policymakers, the researchers will identify economic,…

Jaleigh Goben (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)

…from erosion and sea-level rise and they improve water quality via filtration. However, due to climate change, disease and human pressures, oysters and their benefits are disappearing. By 2011, the…

Celina Scott-Buechler (Atmospheric Science)

…precipitate socially equitable societies. Until recently, Celina was pursuing the study and conservation of coral reefs. Her professional/academic direction changed, however, when she served on the Cornell delegation at Conference…