The World Cultural Council recognized J. Meejin Yoon, B.Arch. ’95, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, for extraordinary accomplishments as an architect and educator, including designs of innovative public spaces and memorials committed to community and social justice.
To feed the world in a healthy, sustainable way, nations need to reorient today’s agri-food systems for distant generations, said Chris Barrett at an Earth Day forum.
Using the five steps of design thinking, Diane Levitt from Cornell Tech gave a workshop Feb. 20 on how to work as a team to create rapid prototypes in an attempt to solve real-world problems.
The 2019 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, a Norway spruce from Florida, New York, will be cut down on Thursday and transported to New York City, arriving this Saturday, Nov. 9. Daniel Weitoish, an arborist at Cornell Botanic Gardens, says the Norway spruce is an excellent choice for the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Dan Huttenlocher, dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech, who positioned the campus as one of the most forward-thinking and interdisciplinary in the nation, will step down Aug. 1 to become dean of MIT’s new college of computing.
The Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy joined with the American Enterprise Institute to host White House adviser Mitch Landrieu and a panel of infrastructure industry leaders.
At its May 26 annual meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees elected three new trustees to four-year terms; they join two recently elected alumni trustees, and a new student-elected trustee.
Weill Cornell Medicine’s 106-member Class of 2023 was sent off to medical school Aug. 20 with the annual White Coat Ceremony that officially marks the beginning of graduates’ medical education.
Six NYS businesses have been awarded funding to participate in the Cornell Center for Materials Research JumpStart Program, in which they collaborate with Cornell faculty to develop and improve their products.
