Course helps hone design for Hospicare expansion

Students from a variety of Cornell majors presented patient-centric ideas for a proposed expansion of Hospicare and Palliative Care Services of Tompkins County.

Professors gaze toward a secure, sustainable future

Deliberating security and a sustainable future, six professors from a variety of disciplines offered quick-takes on destiny – and how our society adjusts - at Charter Day Weekend.

Social sciences, arts, humanities focus of Atkinson Center pilot

Cornell University’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future has selected 11 faculty for the pilot class of its new Fellowship for Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts.

Jack Elliott connects nature, classical art in new exhibition

Artist and design professor Jack Elliott's new installation at the College of Human Ecology features classical plaster casts, new works of sculpture and the remains of a 150-year-old tree.

Bird’s-eye view of NYC for Architecture, Art and Planning

The College of Architecture, Art and Planning’s New York City program has moved into a new space in the Standard Oil Building, a historic landmark overlooking lower Manhattan.

Lighted clothing that flashes to beat of music will hit runway

These clothes soon may be all the rave: Fiber science and physics students have teamed to create fashionable “smart” garments with vivid, luminescent panels that pulse to music.

What becomes a dragon most ... is teamwork

First-year architecture students carry on more than a century of campus tradition March 27 with Dragon Day, an annual project honing the architects' skills in design, fabrication and teamwork.

Cornell Rewind: The Straight creates 'a more human place'

About 57 years after Cornell opened, Willard Straight Hall opened its doors Nov. 18, 1925. The building, bustling with music, dance and club meetings, achieved instant success and a richer student social life unfolded.

Charter Day panelist preview: architect Jenny Sabin

Jenny Sabin talks about the April 26 panel discussion, "Seeing and Hearing at the Cutting Edge: The Time of Experience," part of Charter Day Weekend's Festival of Ideas and Imagination, April 24-27.