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ESF Professor Earns Highest Faculty Honor
05/08

Dr. Richard C. Smardon, a faculty member at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) received SUNY's highest faculty honor May 7 when he was appointed a Distinguished Service Professor.

ESF Awards Steingraber an Honorary Degree
05/03

Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) during Convocation May 11.

ESF to Confer Degrees at May Commencement Ceremony
05/03

The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will confer more than 535 degrees during joint Commencement exercises with Syracuse University May 12 in the Carrier Dome.

Bike Library Rolls onto ESF Campus
04/30

This fall borrowing a bike at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry could be as easy as borrowing a book from Moon Library.

ESF Student Debuts Original Composition at Music Society Concert
04/29

An original composition, written by senior Forrest Baird, made its campus debut April 11 at the ESF Music Society's Breakfast Club Concert in Nifkin Lounge.

ESF Offers Summer Research Ethics Workshop
04/29

The ESF Deptartment of Environmental Studies will host a three-day graduate training workshop on "Ethics, Culture, and Community-based Environmental Research" Aug. 14-16. Part of the National Science Foundation-funded Northeast Ethics Education Partnership with Brown University's Center for Environmental Studies, the session will be led by Drs. Dianne Quigley and David A. Sonnenfeld.

ESF Joins Effort to Make Climate Change Data Available
04/25

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced a partnership of federal, state and air quality experts, including the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), that that will create an online-based New York Climate Change Science Clearinghouse to make the state's climate science data and literature accessible and useful to the public, decision-makers in state and local government, scientists, universities, private business and non-governmental organizations.

Take Our Kids to Work Day Comes to ESF
04/25

Children experience day of hands-on science

Greenfield Named Executive of the Year
04/24

Brenda Greenfield, executive director of the ESF College Foundation at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), was honored as a Nonprofit Executive of the Year by the Central New York Business Journal.

ESF Scientist Rediscovers Long-lost Giant Fish from Amazon
04/23

A professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has put aside nearly a century and a half of conventional wisdom with the rediscovery of a species of giant Amazonian fish whose existence was first established in a rare 1829 monograph only to be lost to science some 40 years later.