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When the refurbished 68th Street Hunter College subway station reopened on Manhattan’s Upper East Side earlier this year, commuters were greeted by three vibrant mosaics. 

In decorating the station, the MTA looked to the work of oil painter Lisa Corinne Davis to celebrate the neighborhood’s diversity and opportunities. Cornell Human Ecology’s (CHE) Eddy Man Kim ’09 brought Davis’s vision to life as a design consultant for the project. He translated Davis’s intricate paintings into large-scale

The Contribution Project is once again funding student ideas to make the world a better place. Of the 100 students selected for the 2023 awards, 17 are in Cornell Human Ecology. Their projects range from improving campus gathering spaces, to providing toiletries to homeless people in Ithaca, to encouraging teenagers to help make blankets for children in South Africa. 

Since it started in 2019, the Contribution Project has provided an opportunity for Cornell Human Ecology

In a recent systematic review, a team of researchers led by Yuexing Hao, a Ph.D. candidate in human centered design, found that while Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to help cancer patients and clinicians make decisions about care, the models’ average accuracy remains low and current limitations pose potential risks to patients.

The team reviewed 56 papers, with an overall model accuracy of just 76.2%, with average diagnostic accuracy of 67.4%

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