Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have announced three Innovation for Impact Fund (IIF) awards for research projects that aim to accelerate problem-solving research and catalyze the rapid integration of r
April 7, 2021
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have announced three Innovation for Impact Fund (IIF) awards for research projects that aim to accelerate problem-solving research and catalyze the rapid integration of recent research into effective policy.
The IIF brings together academic and NGO experts and practitioners to develop and test evidence-based solutions to some of the world s more intractable sustainability problems and addresses urgent environmental and public health challenges.
Cornell Atkinson has supported over 40 IIF Awards since 2012, including more than 20 in partnership with EDF.
“The Innovation for Impact Fund supports research with clear pathways to impact. Partners such as EDF allow for an emphasis on actionable, short-term results,” says Paul Atkinson ’92, Chair of the Cornell Atkinson Advisory Council. “The projects selected this year address the impact of urgent climate issues on humans including
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Mary Nichols, former chair of the California Air Resources Board, will be a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. Mary Nichols ’66 brings fresh air to Cornell Atkinson
March 10, 2021
In the summer of 1964, Mary D. Nichols ’66 joined 30 other Cornell student volunteers to explain civics and to register Black citizens as voters in a deep-South Tennessee county. She traces her passion for justice and the environment to that moment.
“That experience is what led me eventually to law school and to environmental activism,” said Nichols, now an internationally acclaimed environmental regulator who has spent her career working for California governors and U.S. presidents to cool a warming Earth and to provide fresh air.