The center’s funding and programming accelerate groundbreaking research within and across all of Cornell’s colleges and schools.

In turn, the center is the university’s home to bold ideas and powerful new models that ensure people and the planet not only survive, but thrive.

[4] Recognizing that sustainability solutions cannot be limited to one field of inquiry and that discovery in one area may affect other parts of the whole, the center is home to 514 Faculty Fellows representing 12 Cornell University colleges and 90 departments.

By providing startup funding for cross-college collaborations, time-sensitive research, and external partnerships, the center supports pioneering discovery with real-world impact in food systems, energy transitions, climate, behavior, the built environment, and the linkages between human and environmental health.

[5] The Atkinson Center supports Cornell University researchers through multiple funds and fellowships: Partner organizations include but are not limited to: