New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “free tuition” plan applies to only 7 percent of the SUNY-ESF student body. Ben Taylor, Undergraduate Student Association president, said the scholarship has “not influenced SUNY-ESF students in a significant way.” Read more »
The Department of Landscape Architecture at SUNY-ESF will host a lecture by renowned architect Gary Hilderbrand on Thursday. His firm is known for incorporating natural elements into landscape design. Read more »
The Huntington Wildlife Forest is part of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Newcomb Campus — a vast experimental research forest. Read more »
In April, SUNY-ESF’s Academic Governance body passed a resolution calling for relabeling and renovating its bathrooms to increase gender equity and accessibility. This resolution comes after what faculty have said has been a problem for years. Read more »
Atlantic salmon were once native and abundant in New York state, but overfishing and the building of dams, coupled with pollution, caused the fish to die off in the state, according to NYup.com. Read more »
In 2003, SUNY-ESF created Vision 2020, a set of goals centered on topics like student life and financial security from the state to be achieved by the year 2020. The vision was updated with new and reaffirmed goals in 2015. Read more »
While some SUNY-ESF students are celebrating the governor’s free SUNY tuition plan, others have expressed doubt about some of its requirements and concerns about how it might affect admissions. Read more »
SUNY-ESF is becoming a “pollinator friendly” campus, a designation that is assigned by the BEE Protective campaign led by the Center for Food Safety, a program that is aimed at protecting honey bees and other pollinators from pesticides. Read more »
The New York Public Interest Research Group chapter at Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF promotes the group's Her Story Drive and campaign to end hunger and homelessness. Read more »
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry professors expressed concern in interviews that President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget would negatively affect their scientific research. Read more »
The Tug Hill Plateau, a unified forest spanning 150,000 acres about 70 miles north of Syracuse, will be the site of the project, which aims to increase ecological resistance to climate change. Read more »
Rae, who is best known for creating the YouTube series The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl, will speak at Goldstein Auditorium on March 31. Read more »
SUNY-ESF students went on an observational walk at the beginning of the semester around the area OC3 calls the city center to assess the area’s condition. Read more »
Timothy Howard was awarded $114,000 by the US State Department to conduct monitoring of the lower St. Lawrence River wetlands and Lake Ontario. Read more »
Christopher Nomura and post-doctoral fellow Ata Pinto from SUNY-ESF developed a special polymer capable of tricking cancer cells into ingesting chemotherapy drugs in a ‘Trojan horse’ style maneuver. With a more precise delivery method, these polymers may allow for lower doses of chemotherapy with the same effectiveness. Read more »