The College of Architecture, Art and Planning has established the Ratan N. Tata Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of the decades-long philanthropy of the late Ratan Tata ’59, B.Arch. ’62, a former Cornell trustee and renowned business leader.
Mia Bachrack ’25 and Sophia Peck ’26 are working on an independent study focused on costume designer Edith Head with the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection and Cornell Cinema.
Students can win up to $1,500 for projects that combine art and technology in the inaugural Art + Tech exhibit hosted by The Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.
Two new kinds of on-skin electronics, developed in the Hybrid Body Lab, allow users to build and customize them directly on the body – with potential applications in biometric sensing, medical monitoring, interactive prosthetic makeup and more.
Ratan N. Tata ’59, B. Arch. ’62, one of India’s most influential and respected business leaders and philanthropists, and a former Cornell trustee who became the university’s largest international donor, died Oct. 9. He was 86.
In advance of his upcoming lecture at AAP, new chair of the Department of Architecture Jose Castillo shares lessons learned through his wide-ranging work to date and reflected on some of the big questions still driving him as both an educator and architect.
