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EYP, a Page Company has received two Touchstone Awards for evidence-based design for healthcare facilities thanks to research partnerships with Rana Zadeh, associate professor and Alan Hedge, emeritus professor, Department of Human Centered Design.

The projects used assessments and interviews with front-line practitioners to design positive interventions in two hospitals. Hypotheses were documented and surveys questions targeted feedback of specific environmental attributes relative to mitigating medical errors, adverse events, reduction in perception of excessive walking

Emmy Hsiung '23, a fiber science major in the Department of Human Centered Design, is the first co-author on a recent paper on the use of nanofibrous webs for fast-disintegrating drug delivery. She has been working in Prof. Tamer Uyar’s NanoFibers and NanoTextiles Lab since her first year at Cornell.

“Research is rewarding when things work out but there are definitely challenges to get there,” said Hsiung.

Ondansetron is an antinausea drug. By embedding the

Kalem Hanlon's work sits at the intersection of dietary fiber, the gut microbiome and precision nutrition: a field that explores how genetics, environment and microbiome composition shape individual responses to food. 

After experiencing gut issues for much of his life, he became driven to uncover why the same food can benefit one person while offering no advantage, or even discomfort, to another. And when he's not studying how diet shapes microbial health in the Angela

Sehar Mapara is a recent graduate who majored in design and environmental analysis (DEA). She is now an architectural designer with MAOarch Architecture, a woman- and minority-owned boutique firm specializing in luxury retail, workplace and commercial projects. In addition to her day-to-day work at MAOarch, she has participated in New York and Paris design weeks.

Mapara shared insights into how her undergraduate experience informs her work: 

Q. What do you do as an architectural

Human Centered Design Ph.D. students Wenjia Zong and Yoon Yang took their start-up business, Lacuna Technology, to phase one of the eLab—an accelerator program for student startups. “We are trying to develop an algorithm to create better patterns based on body shape,” said Zong, Lacuna’s chief executive officer, who is studying with Fatma Baytar, assistant professor of Human Centered Design and director of the Fashion and Body Tech Lab.

Lacuna Technology is developing a