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Feinstone Award Celebrates Native Visions

The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will celebrate Native visions for a sustainable future during its 2010 Feinstone Environmental Awards dinner.

ESF Cross-Country Teams Compete in Two Meets

The ESF men's and women's cross country teams competed in the Hobart/William Smith Invitational Sept. 18 in Geneva, N.Y., and the Roberts Wesleyan Invitational Sept. 25 in Rochester, N.Y. The teams showed a strong performance in both events.

ESF Golf Team Marks Tournament with Two Medals

The ESF golf team played in its third tournament of the season, the Onondaga Community College Fall Invitational, at The Links at Sunset Ridge Sept. 26. The Mighty Oaks placed second out of three teams, with ESF golfers winning both low score medals in the tournament.

Mighty Oaks Soccer Teams Battle Onondaga

The Mighty Oaks men's and women's soccer teams faced off against their cross-town rivals, the Onondaga Community College Lazers, Sept. 26. The ESF men played well, defeating Onondaga; the Mighty Oaks women did not fare as well, falling to Onondaga despite some strong play.

Hands On, Even When It's Solid Waste Disposal

Students in this engineering class are the people who will be designing systems for waste management and recycling after they graduate and this project gives them a global understanding of waste: who generates it and what they generate. Three days a week, the students brought in their personal trash, including bottles, cans, paper, plastics, etc. The students sorted through all the refuse and separated it for recycling or disposal. The project is a hands-on way of looking at the systems engineers design and the methods of reducing, reusing, and recycling.

ESF Receives $1.47M to Renovate Aquatic Labs

A team of aquatic scientists at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has been awarded a $1.47 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to renovate aquatic laboratories to expand research into topics such as fish disease, invasive species and water quality.

Service Projects Send Students into Community

About 300 new ESF students spent the first Saturday of their college years doing volunteer work in the Syracuse area as part of the College's seventh annual Saturday of Service.

ESF Golf Team Starts Season

The ESF golf team started the season with solid showings at two tournaments this month, spotlighting their growth as individuals and a team.

Men earn two wins; women leave with tie, loss

Two ESF faculty members will be featured speakers in the Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future II series, which will begin Sept. 24.

ESF Participates in Research Ethics Training

ESF is participating in a partnership that has been awarded a three-year grant to develop a Northeast Ethics Education Partnership with Brown University's Center for Environmental Studies.