At Cornell AAP, faculty enriches the college’s commitment to academic and creative excellence through research and engaged learning that bridges fields and inspires and supports the development of the next generation. Their work brings critical inquiry, research, design, and imagination to bear on the greatest challenges of our time to build a more just, sustainable, resilient, thriving, and inspired world.
Paper Challenges and Opportunities in Scaling Climate-Resilient Housing Solutions in the United States
A paper in Nature Communications coauthored by CRP Associate Professor Linda Shi assesses risk reduction actions in coastal communities based on interviews with experts across housing-relevant public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Paper Voxel Shader – An Efficient Shadow Calculation Approach For Urban Building Energy Modeling
Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan and Amber Su (B.Arch. ’25) introduce a voxel-based ray-tracing method that efficiently computes sunlit fractions for urban surfaces using point cloud or mesh data without the requirement for manual geometry simplification.
Paper Pragmatic Remunicipalization Across Diverse Geographies in the US
Using national surveys that covered 539 local governments across the US, this paper by CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Austin Aldag (Ph.D. ’24) found that two thirds of respondents remunicipalized at least one commonly provided public service.
Paper Governing Land on a Dynamic Earth: How Property Shapes Planning for Equitable Climate Adaptation
CRP Associate Professor Linda Shi coauthors this paper which argues that dominant American property regimes fundamentally constrain attempts to plan for and achieve socially just and ecologically reparative adaptation.
Book Walls Wearing Worlds
This full-color catalog documents Art Assistant Professor Leeza Meksin’s solo site-specific exhibition at Ortega y Gasset Projects in 2025, with a curatorial essay by Eric Hibit and an interview between Jodi Hays and Meksin.
Exhibition Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue
This traveling group show, which includes work by Art Assistant Professor Oscar Rene Cornejo, traces major conflicts that have scarred Central America since the 1960s and explores how their histories are entwined with that of US agriculture through the corn industry.
