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Electrochemist Héctor Abruña’s research team is developing new materials for batteries and hydrogen fuel cells that will be critical to storing renewable energy and enabling...
Conservation social scientist Shorna Allred studies global sustainability, conservation and land use decision-making, community resilience, and environmental justice “Natural...
Architect and building scientist Timur Dogan wants to decarbonize our building stock – from Ithaca to Ankara – by developing digital tools that simulate energy demand and...
Fiber scientist Margaret Wilde Frey creates nanofibers that are hundreds of times thinner than a human hair, and studies the way these fibers can remove pathogens from air and...
Civil and environmental engineer Greeshma Gadikota has long been fascinated by the intersection of energy and the environment – and a believer, she said, that you can’t have...
American Studies professor Maria Cristina Garcia’s research on immigration, refugees and asylum seekers is something that’s always been personal to her, having left Cuba for...
Computer scientist Carla Gomes has seen excitement about computational sustainability grow dramatically since she helped pioneer the field some 15 years ago “We showed you can...
Mario Herrero, professor of sustainable food systems and global change, is studying circular food systems that seek to reduce the more than 30% of food wasted in production and...
Douglas MacMartin worked as an aerospace engineer in the private sector before finding his way to academia, where he studies Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM) The concept is based...
From studying volcanoes to observing Earth’s surface from space, atmospheric scientist and Cornell Atkinson Senior Faculty Fellow Natalie Mahowald strives to better understand...
Animal scientist Joseph McFadden researches the interactions between nutrition, environment and food animal production He’s also leading the development of four respiration...
Chemist Phillip Milner develops novel strategies to remove greenhouse gases from emission sources and directly from air One major goal of his lab is to reduce the energy needed to...