<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/top_seven_2025.php" dsn="2023-news"><title>Top ESF Highlights for 2025</title><subtitle/><item_date>12/22/2025</item_date><summary>“Every day at ESF, our students, faculty, and staff inspire us with the work they do” said Joanie Mahoney, president of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). “Please enjoy the following highlights from 2025. I’m proud of the incredible work that defines ESF and look forward to even more discovery in the year ahead.”</summary><featured/><heading-type>image</heading-type><image><img src="/news/2025/images/chestnut_mining_bee.jpg" alt="Bee resting on pollen-laden tree bud"/></image><image_caption>Chestnut mining bee (Andrena rehni)</image_caption><video/><thumbnail><img src="" alt=""/></thumbnail><internal>true</internal></item>