Cornell adjunct professor Charlie Trautmann and his wife, Nancy, were walking the footbridge that crosses Fall Creek in an area of the Cornell Botanic Gardens known as Flat Rock. Noting how the bridge had fallen into disrepair, Nancy posed
The fourth annual Community Engagement Awards celebrated community-engaged work by students, faculty and staff from across Cornell over the past year. Hosted by the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement in the Statler Hotel Ballr…
“Important Conversations Happen in the Kitchen.” For Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre Company, that slogan speaks to the power of bold and thought-provoking performances to spark dialogue. For Katie Kim ’28, it also describes the role the Kitchen h…
When students at New Roots Charter School in Ithaca need a moment to reset, Taylor Cole ’26 goes for a walk with them, offering conversation and support — a role that has become much more than a job. “Working at New Roots reminded me why I
Three Cornell undergraduates are recipients of this year’s Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards, which recognize students for their commitment to community-engaged work addressing pressing social challenges. Frank Fang ’26, Jonathan Lam ’27 a…
Galiba Anjum ’26 brings something rare to the team at Cornell’s Susan Christopherson Center for Community Planning. As one of the only students with a technical background, the computer science and information science double major has appli…
When Ana Loter ’27 helped launch the Rotaract Youth Leadership Institute (RYLI) at Cornell last spring, she wanted local middle and high school students to leave with more than a day of teambuilding activities and community service ideas. S…
For Ariela Asllani ’26, an interest in migration began with the stories she grew up hearing in Kukës, Albania, near the Kosovo border, where her parents and neighbors once laid mattresses on their kitchen floors to shelter refugees fleeing
Before students in Cornell’s biomedical engineering (BME) program design a solution, they are learning to ask a key question: What challenges do communities actually want to address? At the center of that shift is the Tuskegee-Cornell Unive…
Across Cornell, faculty, staff and community partners are collaborating to address pressing community needs while creating meaningful, hands-on learning experiences for students. The four projects supported by the latest round of Engaged Op…
Every day, the Clothing Closet run by the Catholic Charities of Tompkins/Tioga offers families warm coats and clean shirts — as well as dignity and relief. A vital resource in the Ithaca community, the nonprofit hands out tens of thousands
Cornell’s growing commitment to hands-on, partner-based, reciprocal learning has earned it the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, a national designation recognizing universities with sustained, mutually beneficial community partn…