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New BEE Faculty Search in Controlled Environment Agriculture:https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29031
Three new BEE Faculty Search Positions:
Water and Sustainabilityhttps://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26284
Sustainable Transitions for Climate-resilient Future https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26334
Norman R. and Sharon R. Scott Professor of Agriculture and Life Sciences https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26335
In January 2023, the Tanzania subteam traveled to Sunuka, Tanzania to do an on-site evaluation and assessment of an in-progress irrigation system. This video showcases our adventures! Team - Tammo Steenhuis (faculty advisor), Josh Umansky-Castro (advisor), Krisha Jivani (team lead), Aisha Brundan, Janeth Manyalla, Jenna Rotheram, Ajay Sunkara Photography and videography - Krisha Jivani, Josh Umansky-Castro Written, produced, and edited - Krisha Jivan
Assoc. Prof. Jillian Goldfarb has been selected as one of the College of Engineering's outstanding teachers and is the winner of the James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest award for teaching in the college.
Sabrina Marcos, Ph.D. student in the Barstow lab receives Cornell Atkinson thematic grant
Alexa Schmitz, Ph.D., is the recipient of an inaugural ‘Rising Women Innovator Award.’ Alexa is a post-doctoral research associate in the lab of Buz Barstow, Assistant Professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and In the Barstow lab, she is working on engineering microbes to extract rare earth elements. Her work has been funded by multiple sources, including The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, the Cornell Energy Systems Institutes, and the Burroughs Welcome Fund. Video produced by Cornell alumna Shira Evergreen '02 from Uplifted Ithaca.
New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado visits the Barstow lab
Barstow lab receives climate solution grant
Welcome to the Water Resources Institute’s Year of Water – an educational effort to inform students and Tompkins County residents.

2021 News

BEE March Lab Collaboration: In a collaborative effort, a team from Cornell working with a team from Einstein College of Medicine have published results from a study on building synthetic molecules that have similar structure to microbial metabolites normally found in the gut. Using this approach, termed “metabolite mimicry,” the team was able to demonstrate that making indole-based molecules could significantly reduce intestinal inflammatory markers in both murine and human organoid models.
BEE Prof. Jung awarded NSF funds to help design COVID-19 masks
DOE ARPA selects Prof. Barstow collar. topic for Solicitation on Topics Informing New Program Areas Funding Opportunity Announcement
Walter Lab paper selected as the Best Paper for the Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment in 2020
Prof. Datta Lecture at IFT Food Engineering Division, 2020 Annual Meeting
BEE Professors Barstow and Wu receive $1M DOE award
BEE Prof. Jung and incoming BEE Prof. Roh receive NSF award
Prof. Goldfarb named associate editor of Fuel, one of the top journals of the fuel science community.
BEE FA 21' PhD student Briana Hackos receives 3-year Cornell Sloan/Coleman Graduate Diversity Fellowship
Prof. Jung in National Geographic: How cat tongues work-and can inspire human tech

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June 4, 2025

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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June 4, 2025

Microbes that extract rare earth elements also can capture carbon

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

Cornell clock tower with cherry blossoms

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May 22, 2025

Cornell researchers win Four Bezos Earth Fund Awards

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

A mayfly sitting on the surface of water

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April 25, 2025

Mayflies accumulate more mercury when selenium is added to polluted water

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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April 22, 2025

Meet our faculty: Manoj Karkee

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

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