The Phi Kappa Tau house, located at 106 The Knoll, was recently named the first fraternity or sorority house in New York State to use New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s comprehensive energy assessment, known as Home Performance with ENERGYSTAR. Improvements to the house will save Phi Kappa Tau approximately $1,100 per year in energy costs.

Jolyon Bloomfield ’12, along with other interested students, gathered volunteers and began Lights Off Cornell by flipping switches in Rockefeller Hall and Baker Lab.

An initiative undertaken by the Administrative Streamlining Program plans to save the University up to $16 million by June 2014 through improvements implemented in the campus’ facilities department.

The Hanrath Energy laboratory, also known as the Hanrath Group, combats one of the biggest obstacles that marketable solar energy technology faces: cost. Led by Prof.

Perhaps it’s America’s humble, rural origins that produced this backcountry entertainment, such as livestock competitions and baking exhibitions. Or maybe it’s just the personal desire to win that has driven generations of Americans to town, county, and state fairs.

By tradition, State Fairs are a recreational gathering of competitors and patrons alike, seeking their amusement from musicians and farming oddities, but there’s a reason they award ribbons of eight colors. Competitors have traditionally been driven by the desire to display the fruits of delicate labor and achieve the respect of their friends and neighbors.