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Last month, as both New York Textile Month and Climate Week NYC  drew to a close, the Hybrid Body Lab (HBL) led a sustainable e-textile workshop in Manhattan. The event took place at 570 Lexington Avenue, Cornell’s midtown hub for research, learning and engagement.

Participants learned to make EcoThreads, or biodegradable and conductive yarns, using a wet spinning process with materials sourced from the grocery store. Participants included current or retired faculty from New York

Two Human Ecology faculty members have recently been awarded fellowships from the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR).

Corinna Loeckenhoff, the Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor of Developmental Psychology,  has been named the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Engaged Faculty Fellow, and Renata Leitão, assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design, has been named the new Evalyn Edwards Milman Fellow. Both will serve in their roles through June 2027.

Both

Faculty in Cornell’s Action Research Collaborative (ARC) joined New York City and State policymakers and community members for ARC’s second symposium on June 22. The annual symposium is an opportunity for researchers, policymakers and community stakeholders to share their knowledge and advance equity in areas like nutrition and health, housing and social services, and youth development. 

Co-directors Neil Lewis, Jr. ’13, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

This spring's Humecathon brought together students from across Cornell Human Ecology (CHE) and Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences to come up with novel solutions to improve refugee wellbeing. 

Students on the Dean’s Undergraduate Advisory Council (DUAC) launched the Humecathon in 2019 with the understanding that some problems are just too big for experts from any one discipline to solve. The hackathon-style sprint gives students from across the College’s departments the chance to leverage their

Two recent research projects from the Hybrid Body Lab (HBL), directed by Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, assistant professor of human centered design, are providing new opportunities in the field of human-computer interaction and for makers of electronic-textiles (e-textiles).

The Contribution Project, an initiative that helps college students make a difference in ways they find meaningful, is expanding to teenagers throughout New York state through a new partnership with 4-H.

Anthony Burrow, director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR) and the Ferris Family Associate Professor of Life Course Studies in the College of Human Ecology (CHE), started the Contribution Project on the belief that youth have ideas about how they can meaningfully