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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)

Two Cornell Human Ecology faculty members have recently been awarded fellowships, including one that was newly endowed.

Denise Green ’07, associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design, has been named the inaugural Morgan Engaged Faculty Fellow, and Laura Bellows, associate professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, has been named the new Evalyn Edwards Milman ’60 Fellow, both in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR). Both will serve in their roles through

New research from the Division of Nutritional Sciences helps explain how fat tissue develops in mammals and could one day contribute to biomedical treatments for obesity and related diseases.

Daniel Berry, assistant professor in the division, studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern the lineage of adipose cells, or how fat tissue develops from a fertilized embryo and how that path can change in response to diet and environmental conditions. 

Mammals have two types

During the early days of the pandemic, Anthony Ong, professor of psychology, made a curious observation: Some of his friends were thriving in isolation. Yet others have felt lonely even when surrounded by others.

Ong, who is also professor of gerontology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, knew that loneliness and isolation had negative health effects, including on cognition, and that older adults were especially at risk. Some studies had investigated whether loneliness or