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For some students, NS 2470 is the first time they’ve ever held a chef’s knife or carefully measured out ingredients. For others pursuing a career as a registered dietitian, it is a requirement, and they learn alongside classmates who are just beginning in a kitchen. Across a semester that starts with baking simple muffins and culminates in creating complex culturally appropriate dishes, students learn to feed themselves, even on a budget.

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Self-watering planters that improve air quality and alert users to risk. Fashion that transforms gendered words into powerful symbols of passion. A reimagined classroom designed to foster active learning. These are some of the bold and innovative student projects presented at the Cornell Fashion & Design Expo on April 25, the annual juried exhibition hosted by the Department of Human Centered Design (HCD). 

This year’s theme, Challenging Convention in 2025, honors Cornell Human Ecology’s (CHE)

Twenty-five Cornell Human Ecology (CHE) student designers traveled to New York City to showcase their work to more than 200 industry experts, alumni and friends at this year’s Cornell Fashion & Design Expo on April 11. 

From restorative spaces that improve well-being to inclusive clothing that values identity, the students were selected by a faculty jury for their human-centered design-thinking and innovation around this year’s theme: human thriving by design. This year the expo expanded

Two Human Ecology graduate students spent this past summer in New York City as part of a summer fellowship through the Action Research Collaborative (ARC), learning how researchers and communities can work together to effect change. The fellowship offers a blend of academic mentorship from ARC-affiliated faculty and practical experience working with community partners on action research projects based in the city. This year’s fellows were Samantha De Leon Sautu, a Ph.D. candidate in human

When the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, it brought many aspects of life to a standstill. For adolescents, this included attending school and the social interactions that happen there. But the process of growing up continued — including puberty.

This had Kathleen McCormick ’16, a doctoral candidate in psychology studying reproductive transitions, wondering about how adolescents were handling this coming-of-age process during the pandemic, specifically the link between puberty and depression for girls.

“The

For Savita Sastry, one of the biggest benefits of the newly renovated research labs in Kinzelberg Hall can be measured in just a few steps.

Sastry is a Ph.D. candidate in molecular nutrition. When she was learning to use microscopy to image tissues, she sometimes found herself spending an hour trying to troubleshoot a problem on her own. Now, researchers from other labs with expertise in microscopy are working nearby. She just has to walk

On a recent afternoon, four women gathered in the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC) in Cornell Human Ecology (CHE) to “mine” the collection. The collaborators were preparing an exhibit for the upcoming film screening of “Sunset Boulevard,” and selecting garments that embody main character Norma Desmond, an aging relic from the silent film industry who aspires to recapture her faded glory.

Molly Ryan, director of Cornell Cinema,  approached Catherine Kueffer Blumenkamp, associate director of