- Sep 26, 2025
- Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice
Strong social ties may slow aging
Barbara Strupp
- Sep 26, 2025
- by Carolyn Keller
- Community Engagement, Student Life
Celebrating “What Works” in creating engaging learning experiences
The Center for Teaching Innovation will host “What Works,” on Oct. 1, featuring presentations, the Canvas Course Spotlight awardees, and a poster showcase that will demonstrate engaged learning approaches from Cornell faculty teaching in a diverse range of courses and fields.
- Sep 16, 2025
- Student Life
CCE summer interns celebrate community connections, collaborations
Summer projects spanned urban gardens in New York City, youth development in Buffalo and using artificial intelligence in health decision making.
- Sep 15, 2025
- by Caitlin Hayes, Cornell Chronicle
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice
Beloved nutrition programs for low-income NYS residents set to end
Implemented by Cornell Cooperative Extension and partners, SNAP-Ed New York helped hundreds of thousands of low-income New Yorkers improve their diet and overall health every year.
- Aug 9, 2023
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Community Engagement, Technology + Human Thriving
Middle schoolers learn about tech, design and emotion
Last month, 22 Ithaca middle school students spent a day just like Cornell students, brainstorming how everyday technology influences their emotions and behaviors, enjoying lunch and movement on the Ag Quad, designing and discussing ways to apply design methods and psychology principles to their daily life, and enjoying Cornell Dairy ice cream with peers.
Jay Yoon, assistant professor of human centered design (HCD), and Jeremy Faulk MS ’20, an HCD Ph.D. student, led the workshop
- Oct 17 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Human Ecology Building T01
Fast Fashion Before Fast Fashion: Rethinking Histories of Mass-Produced Clothing
Fast fashion is often understood as a recent business model defined by speed, low cost, and disposability. Yet many of its challenges—labor exploitation, environmental harm, and the normalization of overconsumption—have much deeper historical roots. This talk traces the emergence of “fast fashion” through the lens of nineteenth- and twentieth-century shifts in media, merchandising, and consumer culture at large, showing how notions of “progress” and “prosperity” helped obscure the human and environmental costs of mass-produced clothing
