- Oct 22, 2025
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Technology + Human Thriving, Student Life
Leigh explores ethics and product design in liminal contexts
A camera that refuses to take a bad photo. A radio that only delivers news that aligns with your political taste. A necklace that pressures you into never saying the wrong thing.
Welcome to “Perversion of Interfaces,” a revolving exhibition showcasing prototypes from the Machine Poetics Group, a practice-based research lab directed by Sang Leigh. These wacky, unsettling and thought-provoking items, each powered by an artificial intelligence (AI) core, offer a glimpse at an
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- by Melissa Conroy
- Human Centered Design
- Jill Stuart Gallery, Human Ecology Building
Farm to Fashion
Farm to Fashion is an exhibit that shares the story of an ongoing collaboration between knitwear design students at Cornell University and partners within our regional textile economy. The exhibit features work by students from the Department of Human Centered Design as well as others engaged in fiber farming and textile manufacturing. The exhibit was funded by a generous donation from the Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation and a grant from New York Fashion Innovation
- Oct 23, 2025
- by Tom Fleischman, Cornell Chronicle
- Sustainability + Society, Technology + Human Thriving
Reusable nanofiber membrane filters water sustainably
A Cornell research group has developed a cyclodextrin-based fibrous membrane that in lab testing removed approximately 90% of aqueous triclosan, an antibacterial agent that poses a threat to aquatic organisms.
- Oct 28, 2025
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Technology + Human Thriving, Student Life
Agile by design: active learning and interdisciplinary study shape future-ready fashion and fiber graduates
From bed sheets to denim jeans, woven materials surround us. To explore the dynamic interplay of warp and weft in woven fabrics, students in Larissa Shepherd’s Structural Fabric Design (FSAD 2370) course practice stitch patterns ranging from basic to complex using pocket looms, the dobby loom and the TC2 electronic jacquard loom.
“I believe the best learning happens through doing,” said Shepherd, assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design (HCD). “In my class
Melisa Medina-Rivera
- Oct 20, 2025
- by Susan Kelley, Cornell Chronicle
- Student Life
New leadership institute anchors nation’s first Black fraternity
Alumni brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha’s Alpha chapter, founded at Cornell in 1906, unveiled a new leadership institute and student residence, inspired by the fraternity’s founding principles.
- Oct 25, 2025
- Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice