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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Dean Yoon Awarded 2022 World Cultural Council Leonardo da Vinci Award
J. Meejin Yoon, Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts recognizing her extraordinary accomplishments as a leading architect and educator.
Monday, September 19, 2022
6 Videos/6 Questions: Meet Fall 2022 Teiger Mentor in the Arts Emilio Rojas
In advance of his October 3 lecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP), preview examples of Rojas's performances and gain insight into the motivations that fuel his work.
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Sound, Light Artists to Lead Celebration of Cornell Biennial
The Cornell Chronicle previews exhibition tours, performances, and artist panels (September 15–17) celebrating the fifth edition of the interdisciplinary Biennial, which this year is exploring the theme of "Futurities, Uncertain."
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
First-of-its-Kind 3D-Printed Home Blends Concrete, Wood
The Cornell Chronicle reports that the two-story, single-family home, designed by Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, demonstrates innovative construction processes that may help address housing shortages.
Monday, September 12, 2022
Best Designed By Doing: Radical Hybrid Thinking Across Disciplines
As part of a pilot collaboration between AAP and Cornell Tech, colleagues came together across disciplines to explore innovative ways of teaching and thinking about design and technology. Now, they are poised to take their ideas even further.
Thursday, September 1, 2022
This September 27–28, "Critical Conversations for Urban Transformation" brings urban leaders and expert design practitioners, scholars, artists, and activists together around some of the most pressing challenges facing cities today.
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Three Projects Awarded Belonging at Cornell Innovation Grants
The Cornell Chronicle reports that B@C (Belonging at Cornell) 360, a collaboration between the university library and multiple Cornell colleges including AAP, has been awarded support for 2022 programming.
Monday, August 22, 2022
Fall 2022 at AAP: Inclusion and Innovation through Collaboration
As the college welcomes students, faculty, and staff back this fall, the semester ahead includes new courses that invite interdisciplinary participation and innovative partnerships that draw new connections and build community.
Friday, August 19, 2022
Defiantly Optimistic: Centering Humanity in Our Institutions
Associate Professor of Art and AAP's Associate Dean for Diversity and Equity Jen Delos Reyes shares thoughts on art, agency, and making change by changing the way we work toward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEI).
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Cornell AAP announces the appointment of eight new faculty members and two fellows who will bring social justice and radical collaboration to the forefront of the college's efforts to build a more sustainable, just, and thriving world for all.
Monday, August 15, 2022
CRP's Richard Booth Retires after Decades Devoted to Public Service and Teaching
Professor Booth offers a backward glance at a career dedicated to education and the environment and offers his incoming colleagues a few words of advice.
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Warner Wins Levy Engaged Teaching and Research Award
The Cornell Chronicle reports that CRP Professor Mildred Warner has won the award, given by Cornell's David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, for her work to promote age-friendly communities and public health in Tompkins County.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Study of Unions, Local Government Earns Prize
CRP Professor Mildred Warner's study with co-author Amir Hefetz exploring how the unionization of local governments impacts contracting for services earned the top research article award from the journal Local Government Studies.
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Sustainable Preservation Certificate Launches to Address Climate Concerns
Launched by CRP Visiting Lecturer Katelin Olson, the online certificate program offered through eCornell demonstrates how sustainability, energy efficiency, and historic preservation can work collaboratively, reports the Cornell Chronicle.
Friday, July 1, 2022
Cornell Atkinson Awards $1.4 Million to New Sustainability Projects
The 2022 round of Academic Venture Fund seed grants will support nine collaborative projects, including work involving Architecture Associate Professor Jenny Sabin and CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt, the Cornell Chronicle reports.
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
$30M gift to establish Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate
Paul Rubacha's '72, MBA '73 gift creates a multicollege department of real estate jointly led by AAP and the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell.
Monday, June 6, 2022
Alumni Group Advocates to Advance Equity Work at AAP
Alumni group helps create channels of philanthropy intended to directly support the experience and growth of students of underrepresented backgrounds and strengthen the work of AAP's Office of Diversity + Inclusion.
Monday, June 6, 2022
Tear Down Academic Silos: Take an 'Undisciplinary' Approach
The Cornell Chronicle highlights "Undisciplining the University Through Shared Purpose, Practice, and Place," a paper coauthored by CRP Lecturer Mitch Glass that identifies drivers that bring different disciplines together in joint research.
Friday, June 3, 2022
'Measures and Meaning' Exhibition features AAP Alums, Faculty
The Cornell Chronicle previews an exhibition curated by Architecture Associate Professor Sean Anderson (B.Arch./B.S. '96) that showcases work by 20 artists and architects whose views of the built environment defy boundaries.
Friday, June 3, 2022
New Trustees to Join Cornell Board
The Cornell Chronicle reports that the Cornell Board of Trustees has elected eight new members, who join recent alumni-elected trustees including Kimberly Dowdell (B.Arch. '06).
