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2012 News Archive

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Biomass Internships Available for ESF Students
02/23

The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is partnering with the Syracuse Center of Excellence, CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity (CEO) and eight upstate New York businesses to offer paid summer internships to college students who are interested in learning about the increasing use of biomass in the bioenergy field.

Men’s Basketball Team Completes First Season
02/21

The Mighty Oaks men's basketball club team wrapped up its season Feb. 18 at Christian Brothers Academy against the visiting SUNY Cortland club team.

ESF Makes Princeton Review's 'Best Value' List
02/20

The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is one of the nation's "Best Value" colleges and universities according to The Princeton Review.

Nutrition Bar Program Sees Progress on Campus
02/16

ESF senior Kevin Phu began his work with Two Degrees last semester and since then, the program's presence in Syracuse has grown. Two Degrees operates using the "one-for-one" model, in which a nutrition pack is donated to a needy child in a developing country for every bar purchased, Phu said.

Dan Phillips to Speak at NYS Green Building Conference
02/14

Dan Phillips, an environmentally and socially conscious designer/builder, will be the plenary speaker for the 10th Annual New York State Green Building Conference.

SEP Fellowship Brings Green Business Expertise to Syracuse
02/14

The Sustainable Enterprise Partnership (SEP), a collaborative effort that includes ESF and several university-affiliated partners, has announced that Michael Lenox, the Samuel L. Slover Professor of Business at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business Administration, will be the SEP's 2012 Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow.

Saving African Great Apes
02/06

Infectious disease has joined poaching and habitat loss as a major threat to the survival of African great apes as they have become restricted to ever-smaller populations. Despite the work of dedicated conservationists, efforts to save our closest living relatives from ecological extinction are largely failing, and new scientific approaches are necessary to analyze major threats and find innovative solutions.

Five Companies Receive Commercialization Assistance Program Grants
01/30

State Assemblyman William Magnarelli (D-120), the Syracuse Center of Excellence and CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity (CEO) announced at ESF Friday that five companies have received Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP) awards totaling $248,300 to promote the commercialization of innovative green and clean technologies.

Significant Green Buildings Sought
01/30

The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is looking for significant green buildings in New York state.

ESF Scientists Battle Fly That Threatens Darwin’s Finches
01/27

Researchers from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) are traveling to the Galapagos Islands this month to search for ways to combat a non-native, invasive fly that is threatening native birds, including mangrove finches, one of the species studied by Charles Darwin.