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Grad student Leah Crenshaw measures the bill of a white-throated spadebill

Cornell Atkinson Research Grants Support Future Sustainability Leaders

April 8, 2026

Going Nuclear: Student Group Embraces Clean Energy

March 4, 2026

Todd Cowen, Jose Andres, and student researchers in motorboat on Cayuga Lake

Environmental DNA Breakthrough Will Aid Conservation Efforts

January 20, 2026

2025-26 Semlitz Fellows with Stephen Semlitz

Semlitz Fellowship Builds Bridges Between Sustainability Science and Business

December 18, 2025

Close up of dissolved organic matter sourced from decomposition incubations in preparation for measurement with high-resolution mass spectrometry. (Credit: Rachelle Davenport/Provided)

Soil Molecular Diversity Spikes as Microbes Decompose Plants

December 17, 2025

Michael Belfer ’28, Allasandra Avril Valdez, a Ph.D., Eli Barrett-Learn ’28 on ranch in Florida with Prof. Jed Sparks

Student Summer Research Lays Path for Future Scientists

September 16, 2025

Ethan Duvall in a boat on the Amazon (credit: Naia Andrade)

Ph.D. Student’s Nonprofit Seeks to Protect Amazonian Biodiversity and Culture

September 3, 2025

Pond plant corrals at the Cornell Experimental Pond Facility. (credit: Meredith Theus)

Certain Communities of Pond Plants May Increase Greenhouse Gases

August 27, 2025

Illustration of green globe among leaves and moss

Powering Carbon Capture With Sunlight

May 9, 2025

Augustus Pendleton (front) aboard the U.S. EPA’s Lake Guardian research vessel. His work on microbial communities in estuaries is supported by a Sustainable Biodiversity Fund grant. (provided)

Cornell Atkinson Awards Support Graduate Student Biodiversity and Sustainability Research

February 28, 2025

Kavya Mittha ’26, left, and Aisha Brundan ’25 prepare to submerge and test their bobbing buoy wave energy converter at the DeFrees Hydraulics Lab in Hollister Hall.

Student-made Wave Converters Aim to Seize the Sea’s Energy

February 29, 2024

Cheyenne Reuben-Thomas, a doctoral student in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology, does field work on land management.

Grad Student Grants Support Sustainability, Biodiversity

February 29, 2024