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Southern Tier Solutions proposed a fracking method replacing water with carbon dioxide would drastically reduce emissions. Here's what experts said.

Convocation continues with Science today The Faculty of Science will celebrate today as more than 1,100 graduands cross the Convocation stage in two ceremonies. 998 undergraduates, 61 master's, and 40 PhD candidates will receive their degrees. The first Science ceremony starts at 10:00 a.m. Robert Lemieux, Dean of the Faculty of Science, will present Robert Mann for the

In 2020, Charles “Charlie” Van Loan volunteered to stay on as dean of the faculty for an additional year “after it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic would ravage how we run the place,” he said.

Date Time Borehole to reveal potential of geothermal heating Cornell is moving forward, and underground, with plans to drill an observatory borehole to explore the viability – and ensure the safety – of using geothermal energy to heat the Ithaca campus. At a virtual community forum Jan. 19, a Cornell faculty and staff panel outlined the next steps for testing Earth Source Heat (ESH), the process by which water would be extracted from the Earth’s crust, its heat transferred to a separate s...

2020 in review: COVID-19 was the story December 21, 2020 The first mention of the word “coronavirus” in a Cornell Chronicle story in 2020 came on Jan. 29, when the university designated mainland China as an elevated-risk destination, and imposed travel restrictions on students, faculty and staff. Since then, there have been more than 300 stories or university statements that mention COVID-19 posted on news.cornell.edu. It has been the story of the year. The most-read Chronicle story of th...