Participants in the Community Learning and Service Partnership(CLASP)program not only have developed new skills through their semesterlong learning partnerships,they have developed friendships and deeper understandings about themselves and each other.Staff members who paired with student mentors for the fall semester attended aDec.12 luncheon in Warren Hall for a“midyear celebration of learning”at which they thanked their mentors and spoke briefly about their learning partnerships.The students also offered their thoughts about the experiences and what they learned from their partners as well.This semester’s 27 partnerships explored learning photography and video editing skills,Microsoft Excel,writing aprofessional resume,how to create abudget for planning the ingredients for arestaurant meal and more.Sasha Endo,CLASP’s program liaison,described her own job history,which took her from teaching students in an inner-city school in Philadelphia and aschool in Ecuador to working as adishwasher in aConnecticut restaurant before coming to Ithaca to work at Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES and then Cornell.She said what she realized is that while all her co-workers,students and their families have had essentially the same levels of intelligence and talent,they have had very different levels of access to education and learning opportunities throughout their lives. 查看详细>>

Top companies recognize that awell-executed innovation strategy is vital to asuccessful product launch.Developing astrategy that aligns with company goals allows for measurable success and maximum return on investment.To equip professionals with the tools needed to craft an effective innovation strategy,Cornell launched the Innovation Strategy certificate program,which will empower participants to develop aplan and allow them to properly deploy and measure its success.“A successful innovation strategy allows for the creation of winning products to solve unmet needs for customers tied to an organization’s goals,”says faculty author Andrea Ippolito,executive director of the Engineering Management Program at Cornell Engineering.“A sound innovation strategy does not happen by accident.It’s the result of planning for both financial success and cultural change.”From aspiring entrepreneurs and entry-level scientists to MBAs and executive leaders,a wide range of professionals will find value in this certificate program,which is available online through eCornell. 查看详细>>

Cornell Engineering has launched the Veho Institute for vehicle intelligence,formally partnering Cornell with Italian universities and luxury automakers as well as establishing anew academic center at Cornell Tech.The launch celebration was held Nov.25 at Cornell Tech in New York City.Partners include Cornell Engineering,Cornell Tech and the Motorvehicle University of Emilia-Romagna(MUNER)from the University of Bologna,Italy.The institute’s central goal is advancing automotive engineering and data science,with an emphasis on societal impacts,through collaboration between students,faculty and auto industry partners.Subject areas include advanced automotive engineering;virtual reality and computer graphics;autonomous driving;assisted mobility;and transportation and civil infrastructures.The institute is co-led by Silvia Ferrari,the John Brancaccio Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Sibley School;Francesco Ubertini,chancellor of the University of Bologna;and Enrico Sangiorgi,vice chancellor for teaching and education at the University of Bologna. 查看详细>>

Cornell has received anational award for its support of farmworkers across New York state.The honor recognizes avariety of programs that collaborate with farmworkers,a population facing numerous challenges including social isolation,workplace safety issues and heightened immigration enforcement.The C.Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award,which includes$20,000,was announced Nov.10 at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’(APLU)annual meeting in San Diego.Michael Drake,chair of the board of directors of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities,presents the C.Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award to Katharine McComas,vice provost for engagement and land-grant affairs.“We applaud Cornell for its comprehensive work to improve the lives of farmworkers,”said APLU President Peter McPherson.“Public and land-grant universities play aunique role in serving underserved populations.Cornell’s community engagement work powerfully illustrates the impact an institution can have–not just on aspecific population,but across an entire region.” 查看详细>>

The Cornell student chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects(NOMA)was recently awarded second place in the annual student design competition at NOMA’s 2019 conference,held Oct.16-20 in Brooklyn,New York.Cornell’s entry,competing with projects by 39 other teams from U.S.architecture colleges,was“Our Backyard,”which provided ahousing solution for amixed-income residential development in the New York City borough.The National Organization for Minority Architects Students(NOMAS),the student extension of NOMA,exposes architecture students of color to the history,culture and practice of professional architects of color.The Cornell chapter is open to minority students from across the university.NOMA’s 2019 conference was titled“Believe the Hype:A Global Collective of Industry Change Agents.”The annual conference also features workshops,meetings and events focusing on the impact of current issues in architecture on people of color.Students raise funds to attend and participate.During the year,NOMAS activities include special events,guest speakers,field trips and site visits.Competition design requirements change yearly,but always recognize and strengthen marginalized neighborhoods and communities. 查看详细>>

In the evolutionary biology course(BIOEE 1780),students are clustered into teams of five–teams that remain constant throughout the semester,carefully composed based on apre-class survey that asks about prior preparation and collaborative experience.Empty rows between the clusters are traversed by at least 10 graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants,in addition to instructors and faculty,as they engage with students.The teams work together,debate and come to consensus.Their grades depend on it.They sometimes answer questions on scratch cards that look like lottery tickets–scratching until they reveal the right answer,with low-stakes points attached to the number of tries.They sometimes use iClickers,or an instructor may throw a“catch box,”a padded box with amicrophone in it,around the hall so groups can debate with each other.Students who have taken the course,which has been evolving for the last five years with help from Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative,call it acommunity,a collaborative space,a big family.“You could just see how dedicated the instructors were to helping you learn,”says Blake Martin’21.“They created acollaborative environment where you were really working with the content.”Faculty members across every college at Cornell are making both small and large shifts to do this–giving students amore active role in their own learning and building community in their classrooms.In addition to the still-valuable staples of lectures and textbooks,students are asked to debate and apply concepts,to work collaboratively,and to take on the mantle of decision-makers and problem-solvers.Veer Vekaria’19 says these strategies not only helped him retain material but brought to life and made relevant complex concepts.In his social inequality course,taught by Kim Weeden,the Jan Rock Zubrow’77 Professor of the Social Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences,he debated policy solutions to societal problems with his peers. 查看详细>>

With apinch of pomp and circumstance,Cornell’s McGovern Center life sciences business incubator recently graduated two companies–Bactana Corp.and Conamix.“Entrepreneurship is apart of Cornell’s founding mission as New York state’s land-grant university–[where researchers can]discover and disseminate knowledge for the benefit of people across the state and beyond,”Provost Michael I.Kotlikoff said Sept.24 at the McGovern graduation ceremony.“With the aid of venture development and incubation,entrepreneurs are putting research and inventions to good use,”Kotlikoff said.“Conamix and Bactana were both selected by the McGovern Center for the excellence of the science behind their products,their potential for commercial success and the potential benefits to society.”Bactana,steeped in Cornell veterinary research,is developing products for companion animals to improve digestive health and for livestock to increase feed efficiency and weight gain while reducing morbidity and mortality.The company originally explored the benefits of their naturally occurring bacterium by introducing them into livestock to stave off disease and promote healthy growth.For decades,antibiotics have been used liberally to promote growth and prevent disease in livestock throughout the United States and around the world. 查看详细>>

Cornell will lead anew global crop improvement research program to advance plant breeding tools,technologies and methods aimed at delivering staple crops that can increase yields,enhance nutrition and show greater resistance to pests and diseases.The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement(ILCI)will be an integrated research and delivery program with multidisciplinary expertise at the cutting edge of agricultural development,from plant breeding and machine learning to quantitative genetics and gender inclusion.Based in International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,the project will support national breeding programs in East and West Africa,South Asia and Latin America and serve as amodel for introducing advanced agricultural technologies at scale to countries around the world.The five-year,$25 million grant from the U.S.Agency for International Development(USAID)is part of the U.S.government’s Feed the Future initiative,and was announced Oct.16 at the World Food Prize in Des Moines,Iowa. 查看详细>>

For more than adecade,architect and educator Jenny Sabin has created aseries of large sculptural installations at the intersection of architecture,art and science.Integrating new technologies,inventive material and acombination of biological phenomena and mathematics,her latest work adds artificial intelligence,or AI.“Ada,”a responsive,photoluminescent fiber pavilion designed to“smile back at you,”has just opened,suspended in alight-filled atrium at Microsoft Research in Redmond,Washington.Sabin is the Arthur L.and Isabel B.Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture,director of graduate studies,and associate dean for design initiatives in the College of Architecture,Art and Planning.Among her recent works was“Lumen,”a temporary outdoor installation in 2017 that functioned as awork of art and provided shade,seating and cooling for visitors to the Museum of Modern Art PS1 in Long Island City,Queens.For“Ada,”Sabin and her team at Jenny Sabin Studio collaborated with agroup of engineers,data scientists and designers at Microsoft Research to create aresponsive,immersive space that uses AI to process facial patterns and the emotions they reveal as data–known as“sentiment data.”The project began to take shape in 2018,with Sabin’s appointment as Microsoft Research’s most recent artist-in-residence,a program that looks to artists and designers to bring inspiration,material and experimental form to Microsoft’s ongoing areas of research.。 查看详细>>

An online course on inclusive teaching,created and piloted last year at Cornell,will be available to all educators in November as amassive open online course(MOOC).The course,Teaching&Learning in the Diverse Classroom,explores strategies for creating and sustaining effective and inclusive learning environments where all students are positioned to excel,and it gives faculty the tools to teach across difference.“This course embodies Cornell’s commitment to diversity and accessibility,”said Mathew Ouellett,executive director of the Center for Teaching Innovation(CTI).“It is an effort to implement best practices and strategies in our increasingly diverse classrooms as we learn more and society changes.”Last fall,CTI launched Teaching&Learning in the Diverse Classroom to help instructors on campus create inclusive learning environments where this sense of belonging is accessible to all students. 查看详细>>