Cornell faculty and husband-and-wife creative team Mendi and Keith Obadike have worked for decades across music, text, and visual art to explore complex histories and social tensions. The resulting pieces invite the audience into a conversation with both the artists and their material.
Led by College of Architecture, Art and Planning experts, “Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity in Practice” seeks to help communities center justice principles while implementing sustainability strategies.
Three Cornell undergraduates received Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards to honor their significant involvement in community engagement. Ariela Asllani ’26, David Ni’ 24 and Melody Welles ’27 each received a $2,500 prize towards projects that improve the lives of diverse local populations, including adopted and foster children, refugee students, and immigrants.
Thirteen Cornell faculty members have received Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. The awards recognize faculty who have recently developed community-engaged learning, leadership or research activities that create opportunities for students.
This April, the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities welcomes Joseph Kimani, Executive Director of Slum Dwellers International–Kenya, to campus to share conversation and learning as both organizations seek to support informal settlement residents in their efforts to achieve increased housing security and equitable access to urban services.
Celebrated designer and pioneer in transdisciplinary, practice-based research, Faircloth, FAIA, will join Cornell as Associate Professor in AAP’s Department of Architecture and as a Cornell Atkinson Scholar and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
“Monarchs: A House in Six Parts,” a towering architectural-art installation designed by Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, assistant professors of architecture, is featured at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
A multidisciplinary project to design a new facility and community garden for the Enfield Food Distribution Center – which has seen demand skyrocket since 2020 – is among eight teams of Cornell faculty, students and community partners to receive Engaged Research Grants from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
