ESF, Upstate Receive Technology Accelerator Award

ESF and Upstate Medical University were among the five SUNY colleges to receive funding from the SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund, which supports innovation by providing funding to accelerate development and commercialization. (5/24)

ESF College Foundation Honors Miller for Teaching Achievement

Anthony J. Miller, an instructor in the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry's (ESF) Department of Landscape Architecture, has received the 2013 ESF College Foundation Award for Exceptional Achievement in Teaching. (5/23)

Fabius-Pompey HEROS Science Club Partners with ESF

When ESF general chemistry students meet a group of elementary students, the reaction is a positive one. This spring students ESF teamed up with Fabius-Pompey Elementary School's HEROS (Homework, Exercise, Recreation On-site) program. For six weeks the group investigated various types of chemistry including polymer chemistry, acid-base chemistry, photochemistry, thermochemistry and electrochemistry. (5/22)

ESF Cheers for Student Athletes

ESF celebrated the success of its athletic teams this spring with a capacity crowd at a banquet held in the college's new Gateway Center. (5/20)

ESF Alumnus Inducted into NGA Hall of Fame

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has inducted SUNY-ESF graduate Curtis B. Ward '72 into its Hall of Fame. (5/17)

Germain's Research Focuses on Working Forests

Rene Germain's ambition is to help people and working forests. He conducts applied research that keeps him in the woods and working closely with the very forest practitioners who benefit from his research findings. (5/17)

ESF Student Named Scholar Athlete

ESF student Zachary Kalette has received the Chancellor's Scholar Athlete Award. Kalette, a member of ESF's basketball team, is a senior in the college's five-year landscape architecture program. He is a resident of Fayetteville, N.Y. (5/16)

College Begins Expansion of Centennial Hall

ESF has embarked on a project to expand its first residence hall, Centennial Hall, in a response to student interest that has kept the building at capacity for its first two years. A five-story, 84-bed addition will be constructed on the west end of the residence hall. (5/16)

Loon Race, Guide Boat Celebrate Summer at Newcomb Campus

The Adirondack Interpretive Center (AIC) kicks off the summer season with plans for its second rubber loon race and the return to Newcomb of a 100-year-old Adirondack guide boat May 25. The two events will be the centerpiece activities of the AIC's second annual Loons and Logs Day, celebrating the AIC's second year of operation as part of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry's (ESF) Newcomb Campus (5/15)

High-tech, Remote-controlled Vessels Gather Data in Lake Ontario

Dr. Gregory Boyer is participating this week in a project that launches two autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in Lake Ontario to produce intensive data for analysis of nearshore-offshore interactions, fish productivity, changes to the lower food web and algal abundance. (5/15)