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Students in the Climate-adaptive Design studio, a class in the Department of Landscape Architecture, take a break from their research survey last fall at Tarrytown, New York in front of the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge – which spans the Hudson River.

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As sea levels rise over the next decades for low-lying Hudson River towns, Cornell landscape architecture students offered ideas for coping with climate change and embracing the water.

  • New York State Water Resources Institute
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Climate Change
Two pedestrians walk along a walking path atop breakwaters

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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, in partnership with Cornell, is announcing a chance for Hudson riverfront communities to host the university’s Department of Landscape Architecture’s Climate-Adaptive Design Studio in...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Climate Change
  • Water
A professor teaching students in the classroom

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The faculty recipients of the 2021 Innovative Teaching and Learning Awards will use grants of up to $20,000 to explore new teaching technologies and strategies to enhance the student learning environment across campus.
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
A fantastical view of a park where a catering tent is overlaid against the regular park, showing what could be there.

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Cornell graduate students studying landscape architecture examined Ossining last fall, and in mid-December presented the town and village with ideas for climate-change adaptation. The student projects included marrying the built environment with...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Water