AAP Team Develops Sustainable Building Simulation Method

With support from Cornell Atkinson's Small Grants Program, a team led by Fellows Timur Dogan (AAP) and Katharina Kral (AAP), along with Allison Bernett (M.Arch '20), has put forth a new sustainability framework for injecting as much information as possible into the pre-design and early design phases of a project.

NSF Challenges Cornell to Tame Winter, Natural Disasters

In partnership with New York community groups, Cornell researchers led by Fellow Max Zhang (ENG), and including Fellows Keith Tidball (CALS), Toby Ault (CALS), Art DeGaetano (CALS), and David Orr (CALS), are developing a hyperlocal weather forecasting system designed to help emergency response. A 2018 Cornell Atkinson Academic Venture Fund grant contributed to this effort.

Reed Awarded $1.4M Grant to Advance Human-Natural System Modeling

Fellow Patrick Reed (ENG) is advancing the field of 'multi-sector dynamics' with a new $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy that will focus on techniques for better projecting the outcomes of human interactions with the natural world.

Environmental Policies Not Always Bad for Business, Study Finds

A new analysis of Chinese policies co-authored by Fellow C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell (Dyson) found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, market-based or incentive-based policies may actually benefit regulated firms in the traditional and "green" energy sectors.