Fashion design senior wins $30K Geoffrey Beene scholarship

Senior fashion design major Justine Lee received a $30,000 Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship for her design of a clothing "system."

Planners to study development in Indonesia

City and regional planning professor Victoria Beard is leading a new international development planning workshop this winter and spring, focused on squatters in the city of Solo, Indonesia.

Jewelry, socks ease diabetes and arthritis pain

Four students in the Textiles, Apparel and Innovation course have designed products and apparel that ease pain but don't attract attention.

Hip-hop fashion: from street culture to mass appeal

A new paper co-authored by Tasha Lewis, Ph.D ’09, assistant professor of fiber science and apparel design, looks at a music genre's influence on men's fashion.

2014 Biennial to explore nanotech as artistic medium

Cornell's first arts biennial in 2014 will frame dynamic changes in 21st-century culture and art practice, and in nanoscale technology, with projects by faculty, students and guest artists.

Cornell Tech designed 'for next century'

At a New York City symposium Nov. 15, the sustainable elements of the Cornell NYC Tech campus on Roosevelt Island were described in detail.

Service learning course embraces design and health

Students in a new service learning course study the public health impacts of such hot-button local issues as the county jail expansion and whether Ithaca homeowners should be allowed to have backyard chicken coops.

New course blends health policy and facility design

Policy Meets Design, a new course offered by the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, gives students real-world design experience in health care facilities.

Landscape architecture program inspires local teens

DesignTeach is a youth outreach program that introduces teenagers to the concepts and skills of landscape architecture. A first-year student discusses its influence on her.