Project to Optimize Food Plant Worker Safety, Product Supply

A Cornell-led project involving Fellows Renata Ivanek, Samuel Alcaine, Martin Wiedmann, and Aaron Adalja will use computer modeling and outreach to find optimal strategies to minimize COVID-19 cases and transmission among workers in food processing facilities, while maintaining the best possible production.

Authors Break Down History of 'Envirotech' in New Book

To plan for a better future for the environment and technology, we have to look to history, writes Fellow Sara Pritchard (A&S), co-author of a new book exploring the new research field of environmental technology.

Cornell startup Combplex Wins $500K in 76West Competition

Combplex, a startup founded by doctoral students and Cornell Atkinson Research Fellows Hailey Scofield and Nathan Oakes and dedicated to protecting honeybees, was awarded a $500,000 runner-up prize at the fifth annual 76West Clean Energy Competition.

Efficacy, Politics Influence Public Trust in COVID-19 Vaccine

If an initial COVID-19 vaccine is about as effective as a flu shot, uptake by the American public may fall far short of the 70% level needed to achieve herd immunity, according to new research by Fellows Douglas Kriner (A&S) and Sarah Kreps (A&S). The study was supported through a Cornell Atkinson Rapid Response Fund.