- Dec 8, 2025
- Community Engagement, Student Life
Hotel room redesign connects students with community partners
Welcome baskets filled with products crafted by Finger Lakes artisans. Luxurious bathrooms with vanities of natural wood and stone that reflect Ithaca’s beauty. Watercolor renderings of McGraw Tower and other campus landmarks. These are among the concepts that student teams presented to the industry panel for their “Reimagine the Statler Hotel Guest Room” project.
DEA 1110 Making a Difference by Design is a required course for Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA) majors and a popular
- Apr 29 ,2026
- Human Centered Design
- Human Ecology Building T49 and Zoom.
Hybrid Body Lab Artist Talk by Lauren Hooks
Join the Hybrid Body Lab for an artist talk with artist Lauren Hooks. Specializing in artistic braiding and editorial styling, she merges technical skill with cultural storytelling. She will share about her artwork series titled “A.I. Ancestral Intelligence” created during the Hybrid Body Lab Artist Residency.
- Apr 29, 2026
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Holistic Human Health, Donor, Student Life
Pre-health students build skills and improve community health
Every week, Rebecca Herzberg ’26 and Derek Liang ’27 lead a team of students providing preventative health checks at Loaves and Fishes, an Ithaca community kitchen.
Herzberg and Liang are certified EMTs. They train and oversee the students, who check guests’ blood pressure, vision, and blood sugar. If results are concerning, they refer guests to the Ithaca Free Clinic. Many visitors to the meal center are on Medicaid or Medicare or do not have health
- May 1, 2026
- by Kathy Hovis
- Student Life
Entrepreneurial students win awards for summer work on their startups
- May 1, 2026
- Social Impact + Justice
Why nearly 4.3 million people are no longer receiving food stamps
Roger Figueroa, assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, provides expert analysis on food insecurity and SNAP participation declines.
- May 4, 2026
- by Olivia Hall
Community Engagement Awards celebrate partnerships creating positive change
- Apr 27, 2026
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Technology + Human Thriving
Archival fellow highlights public health legacy and its lessons for today
Tara Pearson, a Ph.D. student in Human Behavior and Design and the 2025 dean’s graduate summer archival research fellow, analyzed the sanitation bulletins that Cornell mailed to rural New York women in the early 20th-century as part of the Cornell Reading Course for Farmers' Wives.
Martha Van Rensselaer created the reading course as part of the university’s outreach to New York’s farm families. She blended storytelling, humor and practical advice to empower rural women