Environmental Studies News
November 2, 2011What is the role of urban agriculture in a 21st century sustainable food system? Are urban farms gimmicks, distractions, or key ingredients in a better agriculture? On Nov 9th, with slides and clips from his films and travels, filmmaker and environmental advocate Ian Cheney explores the wild world of urban farming, blending humor and whimsy [...]
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September 7, 2011Rhawn Denniston, associate professor of geology, has been awarded a $98,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study pre-historical hurricane activity in tropical northern Australia. This research continues Denniston’s work on stalagmites and involves field work in caves in the remote Kimberley region of Australia, as well as laboratory work at the University of New [...]
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November 2, 2010On Nov 9th, Dr. Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll, visiting presidential fellow, will present a lecture on “The Paleoclimatic Evolution of the Monsoon Environment of Northern Australia: From Plate Tectonics to Aboriginal Vegetation Burning.” The seminar will outline the controls of the northern Australian summer monsoon at time scales ranging from those of plate tectonics to the likely [...]
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June 18, 2010Professor Glenn Freeman (English) will be an artist in residence this year at two national parks this summer: Rocky Mountain National Park and Isle Royal National park. Freeman was one of six artists were selected out of one hundred and four applicants. The other artists selected, along with their art medium, are: Steve Gifford, Photographer [...]
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March 8, 2010Winona LaDuke, a Native American environmental activist and two-time Vice-presidential candidate for the Green Party, will give the keynote speech at Cornell College’s annual Feminist Symposium on Saturday, March 13. LaDuke will speak about Women and the Environment at 4 p.m. in the Hedges Conference room at The Commons on Cornell’s campus. Her talk will [...]
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February 4, 2010Marty Condon’s path-breaking research, which was featured on the cover of Science magazine in May 2008, has exposed extraordinary and surprising levels of species diversity in tropical plant/insect communities. With a 2010 $270,000 National Science Foundation grant in hand, Condon and her research team are poised to push their investigations even further. Condon and her [...]
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February 3, 2010UPDATE: You can read Biology Professor Marty Condon’s monograph here. MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College Biology Professor Marty Condon has been awarded $270,769 from the National Science Foundation to continue her research uncovering extraordinary levels of tropical diversity. The research, which was featured on the cover of Science magazine in May 2008, addresses a major [...]
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September 14, 2009MOUNT VERNON – On Thursday, Sept. 10, Cornell College Geology Professor Rhawn Denniston participated in meetings with Iowa members of Congress in Washington, D.C., as part of delegations organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to discuss the American Clean Energy and Security bill recently passed by the House of Representatives. Denniston joined UCS [...]
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September 14, 2009Chase Whitney ’02 is a business developer for Iberdrola Renewables, the world’s largest owner and operator of wind energy facilities. Whitney majored in Environmental Studies and History at Cornell and now lives in Denver, Colo. What does your job entail? My job is to advance wind energy projects from varying stages of development to construction and [...]
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August 13, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Despite a year of economic turmoil, Cornell College could still count on its supporters to provide its students, community, and campus with one extraordinary opportunity after another. Cornell closed out the 2008-2009 year strongly, raising $9.8 million in gifts, pledges, and grants, including nearly $1 million for the environmental studies program and [...]
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June 29, 2009MOUNT VERNON – The Environmental Studies Program at Cornell College has been awarded a $316,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enhance curriculum and further interdisciplinary study. The funds will be used to enhance integration of existing courses, develop field courses in Latin America, help introduce new courses, and to create a capstone [...]
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May 22, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Jamie Bernthal, a junior at Cornell College, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) award and will utilize the nearly $6,000 award to perform environmental policy analysis. Bernthal, a politics and economics and business major, will work this summer with a policy researcher from the University of [...]
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May 21, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Cornell College is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation. Cornell College will receive $10,000 per year for up to five years and an additional stock gift. The gift will provide funding for Cornell’s environmental studies program. “This is an exceptional gift from an [...]
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March 12, 2009Cammy Watkins ’02, has been recognized as one of 70 female eco-achievers in the April issue of Glamour Magazine. Watkins’ work for the Sierra Club’s ‘Cool Cities’ clean energy campaign is highlighted in the story, which includes photos taken of the group in New York City’s Central Park. Other Glamour eco-achievers include actress Alicia Silverstone, [...]
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January 9, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Environmental writer Scott Russell Sanders will perform a reading at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, in Hedges Conference Room, Cornell College. The event is free and open to the public. Sanders is the distinguished author of more than 20 novels, collections of stories, and works of personal nonfiction, including Staying Put, Writing [...]
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January 7, 2009MOUNT VERNON – In celebration of the double anniversary of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, Cornell College will host a number of speakers and events commemorating Darwin’s life and work. All lectures are free and open to the public. Dr. Robert T. Pennock will kick [...]
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January 6, 2009Since 1961, the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota has provided Cornell students with a spectacular nature-based classroom. Academic departments ranging from biology to English to politics now take advantage of the field station during first block each year as part of the annual Cornell Wilderness Term. Each course embarks on a canoe journey into [...]
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January 6, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Anna Tsing, professor of anthropology at the University of California-Santa Cruz, will speak at Cornell College as the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 3:10 p.m. in Hedges Conference Room. The lecture, “Fugues for Multi-Species Living,” is a tour through a Japanese forest examining the history of co-existing [...]
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October 29, 2008MOUNT VERNON – As part of their 50th reunion gift, the Cornell College class of 1958 has donated over $677,000 in cash, pledges, and planned gifts to Cornell to endow the environmental studies program and to fund a scholarship in environmental studies. The gift honors long-time geology professor Herb Hendriks, who started one of the [...]
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September 14, 2008Science research opportunities at Cornell took Alyssa Borowske around the globe, and her efforts earned her a 2007 Fulbright grant to study the impacts of Australian magpies on native bird species in New Zealand. “There is simply nothing quite like crawling into a cave which few other humans have ever been inside, or feeling the [...]
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March 29, 2008On paper, Adam Majeski’s Cornell Fellowship in Geology Education was an opportunity to help open a new, 1.5-mile section of Ice Age Trail across a Wisconsin property. What he gained, though, were lessons in responsibility, self-direction, communication, and project coordination. “Going into the project I expected specific instructions on what I was to do and how [...]
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March 10, 2008The front lines of climate change research increasingly include Cornell undergraduates, such as Brian Hoye ’06 and Megan Andresen ’06. Hoye collected stalagmite samples from Goshute Cave in northern Nevada and dated them by analyzing their uranium and thorium components using mass spectrometry. Working with Rhawn Denniston, Cornell professor of Geology, Hoye’s research sought to [...]
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January 11, 2008MOUNT VERNON — New research by Cornell College Professor of Geology Ben Greenstein suggests that global warming may be responsible for migrating coral species along Australia’s western coast, potentially providing a safe haven for temperature-sensitive species as the oceans warm. Along with John Pandolfi of the Centre for Marine Studies, University of Queensland, Australia, Greenstein [...]
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October 24, 2007MOUNT VERNON — One of the nation’s leading prairie and savanna restorationists will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Cornell College’s Kimmel Theatre. Pauline Drobney will discuss lessons learned from 15 years of research and management on the prototype tallgrass prairie and savanna ecosystem in a talk titled “Prairie: It’s not just a [...]
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May 2, 2007MOUNT VERNON — Elizabeth Bach, a senior biology and environmental studies major at Cornell College, has been awarded the R.J. McElroy Fellowship. The award provides $10,000 per year of graduate study for up to three years. Bach, of Richmond, Ind., will pursue graduate studies in soil ecology in tallgrass prairies through the plant biology department [...]
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March 14, 2007MOUNT VERNON — Senior Alyssa Borowske has been awarded a Fulbright grant to study the impacts of Australian magpies on native bird species in New Zealand. She will work with researchers at the University of Waikato using radio telemetry to track habitat use of two endemic species, the Tui and the Wood Pigeon, in areas [...]
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October 10, 2005MOUNT VERNON — The author of the top biological science book for 2004 will speak Monday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in Kimmel Theatre at Cornell College. James Spotila, professor of environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, will lecture on “Sea Turtles: Ecology, Behavior and Conservation.” Admission is free. After the talk, Spotila will [...]
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