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News & Events

Department News

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News

Collaboration brings healing, honoring garden to Akwe:kon

A new garden at Akwe:kon, established by students from the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program and the Cornell Botanic Gardens, aims to honor Indigenous students and their connection to the land.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Landscape Architecture
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News

Let the grass grow
Cornell urban grassland and landscape experts provide tips on how to mow less and save you money, fuel and time while yielding multiple environmental benefits -- including reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Landscape
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.

News

Cornell students help Tarrytown envision waterfront future

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
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News

Local floodplain home buyouts can inform federal plans

Cornell researchers compared federal floodplain home buyout policies with regional programs, showing that local strategies may make these acquisitions more equitable and effective.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Climate Change
Susan Riley and Caroline Williams pictured in front of a large red banner with the Cornell seal, holding the plaque for the Cornell New York State Hometown Alumni Award.

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Oneida County native receives NYS Hometown Alumni Award

The 10th recipient of the Hometown Alumni Award, Caroline Williams '01 has spent the last 15 years working to improve living conditions in Utica, New York, and her nearby hometown of Remsen.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Landscape Architecture

Department Lectures

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Lecture

Lunch & Learn
Engaged Teaching Join us for a catered lunch as we learn about Professor Marvin Pritts' approach to engaged teaching and how he is connecting his students to the community through plant-based projects and collaborations with local berry growers...
  • Department of Global Development
  • global development
  • Global Development
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Lecture

Marvin I. Adleman Memorial Lecture: Walter Hood
The Department of Landscape Architecture is proud to welcome Walter Hood, who will deliver the 2021 Professor Marvin I. Adleman Memorial Lecture. This virtual lecture is open to the public. Speaker Bio: Walter Hood is the Founder and Creative...
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Lecture

Andrew Sargeant: Landscape Singularity: Innovative Tools for Design
The Department of Landscape Architecture is proud to welcome Andrew Sargeant to present at the department's Landscape Lecture Series. Speaker Bio: Andrew Sargeant, ASLA, is a tech enthusiast looking to pioneer the use of design technology for...
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Lecture

Thaisa Way: Why History Matters NOW
The Department of Landscape Architecture is proud to welcome Thaisa Way to present at the department's Landscape Lecture Series. Speaker Bio: Thaisa Way is the Director of Studies for Garden & Landscape Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research...
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Lecture

Jane Hutton: Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements
The Department of Landscape Architecture is proud to welcome Jane Hutton to present at the department's Landscape Lecture Series. Speaker Bio: Jane Hutton is a landscape architect, teaching at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture...