Leadership & Staff
Our offices are in 200 Rice Hall on Tower Road, near the center of campus.
The Atkinson Center represents a bold commitment to develop and deploy knowledge, advancing solutions to some of society's most complex and pressing problems. Sustainability transcends individual disciplines, while resting on a foundation of disciplinary understanding. The Center's three major program areas—Energy, Environment, and Economic Development—are tightly linked and interdependent.
The Atkinson Center is led by a team of four tenured faculty and three academic staff members. The director and three associate directors serve on a part-time basis, in addition to their teaching and research, while the Center's executive director, partnerships director, and communications director are full-time administrators. Two staff members, the web and communication manager and an administrative assistant, complete the full-time roster. Additional part-time staff and students assist the Center in carrying out its mission.
You may contact us via an online form, or call us: (607) 255-7535.
Director
Prof. Frank DiSalvo
J. A. Newman Professor of Physical Science
200 Rice Hall
607-255-8891
fjd3@cornell.edu
Associate Directors
Prof. Drew Harvell
(Environment)
Professor, Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology
607-254-4274
(alternate: 607-255-0091)
cdh5@cornell.edu
Prof. Jeff Tester
(Energy)
Croll Professor of Sustainable
Energy Systems
607-254-4785
jwt54@cornell.edu
Prof. Wendy Wolford
(Economic Development)
Polson Professor of Development Sociology
607-255-2146
www43@cornell.edu
Center Staff
Dr. David Dieterich
Executive-in-Residence &
Director, Strategic Collaborations
213 Rice Hall
607-254-1380
dd355@cornell.edu
Lauren Chambliss
Communications Director
Department of
Communications
216 Rice Hall
607-255-7344
elc55@cornell.edu
Katy Noonan
Development Director
215 Rice Hall
607-254-6520
kan3@cornell.edu
Mark Lawrence
Paula Euvrard
Assistant to the Directors
200 Rice Hall
607-255-7535
pge3@cornell.edu
