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Cornell AAP Receives Gift to Endow Judith Kinnard Early Career Design Fellow in Architecture
With a gift from two AAP alumni, the college has established a position meant to be a "powerful running start" for emerging design educators.
Ratan N. Tata Posthumously Honored with Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award
Milstein Hall's auditorium was at capacity for the April ceremony, during which speakers shared personal reflections on Tata's wide-ranging impact and legacy.
Autodesk Gives Jointly to Cornell's Colleges of Engineering and Architecture, Art, and Planning
To advance teaching, research, student experience, and post-graduate success in Cornell Engineering and Cornell AAP, Autodesk gifts $4.3M to be shared by the two colleges.
Nice Flex: AI-Powered Smart Clothing Logs Posture, Exercises
Cornell Bowers CIS and Design Tech Professor François Guimbretière coauthored a paper that studies a new technology using flexible conductive threads sewn into a short-sleeved t-shirt and AI to track workouts.
Robinson-Appel Award Recipients Create Community-Engaged Solutions to Social Challenges
Keishaun Wade (B.S. URS '25) received a Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award to honor his significant involvement in community engagement. The $2,500 award goes toward innovative, community-engaged learning projects dedicated to tackling social challenges.
Speculative Thinking: AAP NYC Spring Studio Explorations
This semester's architecture studios at the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center encourage students to investigate alternative possibilities for addressing contemporary urban challenges.
Colors of the Wind: Dragon Day Beast Gets an Artistic Twist
For Dragon Day 2025, the first-year architecture student tradition resulted in a blank canvas beast that marched to the Arts Quad to be met with a kaleidoscope of vibrant hues.
New Mui Ho Center for Cities Podcast Explores "Wicked" Urban Problems and Actions Across Scales
The Good City connects people with a passion for urban issues, both within and outside academia, through engaging conversations and shared knowledge.
Admitted Class of 2029 Channels Passions into Knowledge
Through volunteer work, research, and advocacy, the 5,824 students admitted to the Class of 2029 reflect Cornell's commitment to changing lives through public engagement, the Cornell Chronicle reports.
Architecture Students Set to Show "How to Build Your Dragon"
The Cornell Chronicle previews the annual Dragon Day parade, which is expected to feature an 80-foot dragon designed by first-year architecture students that will glide through campus aided by sail-like wings.
AI Ring Tracks Spelled Words in American Sign Language
Professor of Information Science at Cornell Bowers CIS and Design Tech Faculty François Guimbretière is among the coauthors of SpellRing, a paper presenting an AI-powered ring with micro-sonar technology that continuously and in real time tracks fingerspelling in American Sign Language.
Cornell Faculty Honored for Community-Engaged Innovation
Associate Professor of Architecture Pamela Karimi is among 13 faculty members from across Cornell who are being honored by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement with this year's Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards.
On April 24, the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities will convene experts to share solutions and identify areas for future action that address the multiple and cascading climate change hazards facing New York City.
Announcing: CriticalProductive edited by Architecture Professor Milton S. F. Curry
After two pilot issues, the journal has launched a media-rich inaugural volume, "Sovereignty / Populism," and dedicated itself to disseminating experimental scholarship and creative work to a broad audience.
Solar Solutions: Bio-Inspired Approach Creates Bespoke Photovoltaics
HelioSkin, an interdisciplinary project led by Design Tech Chair Jenny Sabin, College of Arts and Sciences faculty Itai Cohen, and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty Adrienne Roeder, combines computational design, digital fabrication, and 3D printing to create customized filters and photovoltaic panel assemblies.
Trailblazing Architect Kimberly Dowdell (B.Arch. '06) Aims to Inspire Others
Kimberly Dowdell (B.Arch. '06), Director of Strategic Relationships and Principal at the global architectural firm HOK and a leading voice on the importance of diverse perspectives in her field, shares her story with Cornellians.
Reimagining Urban Research as Participation and Collaboration
In High Stakes, High Hopes, CRP Chair Sophie Oldfield chronicles a long-term partnership with residents of Valhalla Park that dynamically linked the university and the community to reframe research addressing core neighborhood challenges.
The Soil Factory Receives Warhol Foundation Grant
A local, community-run space for exploring art, science, and ecology, the dynamic organization was selected for new multi-year funding at a "transformative moment." The proposal was crafted collaboratively by AAP art faculty, CALS faculty and a post-doc associate, and Ithaca-area community members.
Art Faculty Jen de los Reyes and Oscar Rene Cornejo Awarded 2025 Creative Capital Project Grant
The unrestricted funding will support their work LAND, a site of education, research, cultivation, care, and conservation.
An Open Invitation: AAP's Spring 2025 Semester Highlights
With the start of a new semester comes a fresh opportunity to engage with AAP colleagues and guests, explore concepts on campus and in the field, and find inspiration in the work and ideas on display at every turn.
