Cornell's Program in Real Estate has received an $11 million gift from Lisa and Richard Baker '88. The gift will more than triple the program's current endowment. (April 12, 2012)
Cornell and Steven Holl Architects announced today (July 11) that they had mutually agreed to dissolve their relationship for the design of the proposed new home for the university's Department of Architecture. Steven Holl Architects was the winner of an invited architecture design competition sponsored by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.
Cornell's entry in the 2009 Solar Decathlon goes outside the box in solar house design. The team returns in October to the biennial competition in Washington, D.C. (May 20, 2009)
Events on campus this week include a talk by environmental writer Dan Fagin, a young people's concert with Cornell Symphony Orchestra, and a debate on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Cornell has announced four finalists in an invited architecture design competition for its College of Architecture, Art and Planning. The $25 million project is intended to provide new studio space and other related services and offices for the Department of Architecture.
The 28th annual Cornell Fashion Collective runway show, is set for Saturday, April 28, 7-9 p.m., at Barton Hall. Some 3,000 attendees are expected. (April 23, 2012)
Kent Hubbell, Cornell's dean of students, moonlights as an architectural designer of such Fiberglas fabric structures as the one sheltering the Chene Park Performing Arts Complex.
Cornell University Sustainable Design hosted the inaugural 'Interdisciplinary Sustainability Student Summit' Oct. 29 to generate an intercollegiate discussion about sustainability issues. (Nov. 1, 2011)
A student has used Cornell technology to make a mask, hooded jackets and shirts that can trap and decompose harmful gases for military applications or for people living in smog-choked cities. (April 12, 2011)