Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Support Our Work. Donate Today. Accelerating innovative sustainability solutions for 15 years The hub of collaborative sustainability research at Cornell University Driving real-world impact on cli…
A persistent theme in our “Sustainability Insights” essays during the last three years has been that universities have a great deal of unrealized potential to help solve urgent, important societal problems. In this last post before I retire…
Cornell Atkinson supports the next generation of problem solvers – graduate and undergraduate students – to transform their discoveries, expertise, and commitment into real-world sustainability solutions. A wide range of young scholars has
My previous post looked at the evolution of higher education, some of the reasons behind the public’s recent distrust of research universities, and proposed a renewed statement of the purpose of universities around the creation and dissemin…
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According to the Wall Street Journal, AI giant Anthropic has recently tasked one philosopher with teaching morality to its chatbot, Claude. Oxford-educated Amanda Askell aims to endow Claude with emotional intelligence, a personality, a con…
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Support Our Work. Donate Today. 103 Atkinson Hall, 350 Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-7202 Phone: (607) 255-7535 Fax: (607) 255-6714 Email Us GIVE NOW If you have a disability and a…
Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow Lydia O'Meara helped validate a low-cost mobile phone survey tool in rural Uganda that can collect dietary information remotely, even among low-literacy populations. Building on those findings, she is no…
In my last post, I suggested that the key to successful policy to prevent the importation of nonindigenous invasive species is to focus on the pathways that bring them to our shores: transportation-related pathways, including commercial shi…
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability is proud to be an implementing partner on two climate-smart agriculture projects among others announced today as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s initiative Partnerships for Climate-Sma…
The Academic Venture Fund (AVF) is our incubator for the next generation of sustainable solutions. The AVF seeds original, interdisciplinary research that is not likely to find funding elsewhere because the projects are novel, risky, need e…
The maps above display predictions of: (1) Richness: the number of wild bee species, (2) Conditions: trends in landscape conditions for bees, and (3) Combined: this map integrates both the richness and landscape conditions, and you can clic…