Art students worked toward their B.F.A. degrees this year with studio and seminar classes, visits to museums and artists' studios, internships, meeting curators and exhibiting their work at AAP NYC.
The “New Day at the MTA” conference, co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Empire State Development Corporation, explored solutions for an aging transit system that moves 8.6 million people a day.
Students placed price tags on about 80 trees April 18 to demonstrate the dollar value of the ecosystem services the trees provide, such as energy savings and intercepting storm water runoff.
Hector Abruña, the Emile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been awarded the Frumkin Memorial Medal from the International Society of Electrochemistry.
Urban and regional studies undergraduates went to Brooklyn on a recent field trip with associate professor Thomas Campanella, taking in the borough's history and recent wave of development on a tour of key sites.
More than 100 people participated in the Cornell Online Learning Community's seventh annual event, “What Works and What’s Next in Online Teaching and Learning?”
Timur Dogan, an architect, building scientist, and a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, comments on New York City legislation that would set greenhouse gas emission caps for buildings.
Assistant professor of architecture Jenny Sabin has received a 2014 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, for a portfolio of her work.