- 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
- Oct 3 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Human Ecology Building, T01
Threads: Sustaining India’s Textile Tradition
Threads: Sustaining India’s Textile Traditions features four Indian designers and their collaborations with traditional textiles artisans that produce fashion collections for a contemporary market. Through in-depth interviews and visually stunning footage, this film demonstrates how these committed, creative collaborations innovate traditional textile techniques and reinvigorate the communities who produce them.
Katherine Sender, PhD is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication. She is also a member of Feminist, Gender, and
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- Human Centered Design
- Level T Vitrines, Human Ecology Building
Threads of Progress: 100 Years of Fashion & Innovation
Threads of Progress: 100 Years of Fashion & Innovation celebrates over a century of fashion innovation, education, and outreach at Cornell University, tracing the evolution of the Textiles and Clothing program from its early days in the College of Home Economics to its current home in the Department of Human Centered Design in the Cornell Human Ecology. Visitors will see garments worn and made by students, faculty, and extension agents—from wartime uniforms to Olympic leotards—showcasing
