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Cornell Atkinson awards catalyze solutions in food, climate, clean energy

Atkinson Venture Fund awards have distributed $21.7 million to 223 projects spanning every college on Cornell’s campus over 15 years.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
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Cornell geochemists and synthetic biologists have collaborated to improve the efficiency of microbes that can dissolve rocks to extract critical minerals while speeding carbon sequestration from air.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Microbial biology
  • Environment
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Four Cornell faculty members have been awarded grants from the Bezos Earth Fund’s inaugural AI Grand Challenge for Climate and Nature. Among 1,200 global applicants, only 24 were selected – three from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animal Science
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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Researchers found that at low levels of mercury, selenium additions did seem to help mayfly larva from accumulating mercury. But at high mercury levels – the condition in which environmental remediation is most needed – selenium actually made...

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Water
  • Ecosystems
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Academic focus: Artificial intelligence (AI), automation and robotics in agriculture Research summary: My research program focuses on innovating AI, machine learning and robotics solutions for agricultural applications, aiming to reduce resource...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Agriculture