{"id":1799,"date":"2010-10-29T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T16:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2010-10-29T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T16:46:29","slug":"cornell-gets-80-million-gift-for-sustainability-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"Cornell Gets $80 Million Gift for Sustainability Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1801\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/AtkinsonsCornell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1801\" title=\"AtkinsonsCornell\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/AtkinsonsCornell.jpg\" alt=\"Patricia and David Atkinson (Cornell University)\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/AtkinsonsCornell.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/AtkinsonsCornell-150x149.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia and David Atkinson (Cornell University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cornell University alumnus David R. Atkinson and his wife Patricia Atkinson (pictured right) have given the university an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/Oct10\/AtkinsonGift.html\">$80 million gift<\/a> to turn a three-year-old pilot program that they funded into a permanent, research center on challenges in the global energy, environmental, and economic development arenas. The university says the contribution represents the largest gift by an individual ever to Cornell&#8217;s Ithaca, New York campus, as well as the largest gift to a university for sustainability research and faculty support.<\/p>\n<p>In its pilot stage the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainablefuture.cornell.edu\/index.php\">David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future<\/a> already harnesses contributions from 220 faculty fellows in 55 departments. Frank DiSalvo, the center\u2019s director and a professor of chemistry says, &#8220;The center provides the means and programs to build new, multidisciplinary collaborations and the external partnerships needed to meet such challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Examples of these collaborations include a project joining Cornell engineers and chemists with IBM scientists on solar capture technologies. In another example, veterinary, engineering and computer science researchers are collaborating to replace antibiotics with bacteriophages -\u2013 viruses that infect bacteria -\u2013 which can be used in the food-animal industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell University alumnus David R. Atkinson and his wife Patricia Atkinson (pictured right) have given the university an $80 million gift to turn a three-year-old pilot program that they funded into a permanent, research center on challenges in the global energy, environmental, and economic development arenas. The university says the contribution represents the largest gift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[92,86,38,64,105,26],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-ventures","tag-agriculture","tag-engineering","tag-grant","tag-life-sciences","tag-physical-sciences","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}