Curie Academy is a one-week residential program for high school girls who excel in math and science. The focus is on rising juniors and seniors who may not have had prior opportunities to explore engineering, but want to learn more about it in an interactive atmosphere. As the faculty director, Professor H. Oliver Gao organized the week-long CURIE Research Project (2018) on Smart and Healthy Cities.
– Cornell Engineering Diversity Program
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CATALYST Academy is a one-week residential program for rising high school juniors and seniors from underrepresented backgrounds who desire to learn about engineering and careers within an interactive milieu. As the faculty director, Professor H. Oliver Gao organized the week-long CATALYST Research Project (2017) on Built Environment and Sustainability. Forty-eight dynamic junior and senior high school students participated in this one-week summer residential program intended to advance diversity in engineering and its related disciplines.
– Cornell Engineering Diversity Program
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Deteriorating infrastructure, rising seas, and more frequent extreme weather events are challenging today’s engineers, architects, and urban planners like never before. On May 23, 2017, more than 60 people gathered at the Cornell College of Architecture, Art and Planning’s (AAP) studio space in New York City to consider how built environments can help meet these challenges. The one-day workshop, “Rebuilding the Built Environment,” was organized by Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) and AAP NYC. The CTECH Cornell PIs are fellows of ACSF, and CTECH Director Oliver Gao was an invited speaker on the opening panel of the workshop to talk about transportation infrastructure planning, environment, and community health.
– Cornell Chronicle
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Oliver Gao, Director of CTECH, gave a keynote speech on Transportation and Environment/Energy Systems at the Ivy Plus Facilities Management Spring Conference on April 24, 2017.
In April 2007, Yale University President Rick Levin invited teams of representatives from the Ivy Plus institutions to gather at Yale to focus on Sustainability and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Commitments. The Ivy Plus Sustainability working group emerged from that initial meeting. The Ivy Plus Sustainability working group is committed to sharing solutions that include the implementation of innovative technologies as well as research and operational methodologies that advance our commitment to greenhouse gas reduction on our campuses.
– Center for Technology, Environment, and Community Health (CTECH)
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CTECH’s core mission of education, research, and outreach enables the Center to play a key role in this university-wide initiative. CTECH faculty, students, and staff are collaborating with various university units and community partners (e.g. Cornell’s Senior Leaders Climate Action Group, Transportation and Mail Services, Campus Sustainability Office, Tompkins County Area Transit (TCAT), Ithaca Metropolitan Planning Organization, etc.) to use Cornell/Ithaca as a living lab for transportation innovation towards a carbon-neutral campus and community.
– Center for Technology, Environment, and Community Health (CTECH)
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Wang, D., M. Tayarani, B.Y. He, J. Gao, Joseph Y.J. Chow, H.O. Gao, and K. Ozbay (2021). Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
