Department Events & Lectures

Jośe de Jesus Leal in front of mural

Lecture

Landscape Architecture Spring 2025 Series, Expanded Practices: Jośe de Jesus Leal
Join us in 461 Kennedy Hall for a lecture with Jośe de Jesus Leal, Principal and Director of Native Nation Building Studio at MIG. This lecture is titled "Land as a Relation: Supporting Indigenous Connections/Reconnection and Our Obligations to...
  • Landscape
Monique standing outside

Lecture

Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Monique Ekaete Bassey, Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska – Lincoln. This lecture is titled "Rooted In Advocacy: Empowerment Through Design." Monique will share her personal...
  • Landscape
Students collectively drawing

Webinar

Are you interested in the Master of Landscape Architecture degree? Did you miss our first two info sessions? Now is your chance to join in on one more info session! Come join us for our virtual info session on Tuesday, November 26 at 10am EST...
  • Landscape
Ed Wall standing in front of a gray background

Lecture

Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Ed Wall, Professor of Cities and Landscapes at the University of Greenwich, and Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. This lecture is titled "Public...
Ketevan Gurchiani standing in front of a black background

Lecture

Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Ketevan Gurchiani, Professor of Anthropology at Ilia State University in Tbilisi. This lecture is titled "On Hidden Power of Trees: Urban Resistance in Tbilisi." This event is co-sponsored by the...

Department News

Thomas J. Campanella, MLA ’91, professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, spearheaded the effort to commemorate Pearl S. Buck’s first residency in Ithaca with a New York State Historic Marker, funded by the Pomeroy Foundation. He offered a preview of the marker prior to its Dec. 8 installation near Forest Home Chapel. Photo by Ryan Young.

News

Historic marker celebrates Pearl S. Buck’s stop in Ithaca

Years before writing “The Good Earth” and winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, the aspiring novelist received encouragement and a master’s degree at Cornell.

  • Landscape Architecture
  • Applied Economics
Brown soil and green plants in a field

News

Fifty-four research projects addressing New York’s agriculture, environment and communities have collectively received $1.6 million from the USDA.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Student model simulating water circulation and leachate movement at Seneca Meadows landfill. Photo by Angel Selenis.

News

Juniors in Cornell’s landscape architecture design studio are taking on a tall challenge this fall: to imagine the future of Seneca Meadows, New York State’s largest landfill.
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Environment
Ratan N. Tata ’59, B. Arch. ’62, one of India’s most influential and respected business leaders and philanthropists and Cornell’s largest international donor, at the Tata Scholars Reception in 2012.

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Ratan N. Tata ’59, B. Arch. ’62, one of India’s most influential and respected business leaders and philanthropists, and a former Cornell trustee who became the university’s largest international donor, died Oct. 9. He was 86.

  • Agriculture
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
An aerial view of a city scape along water

News

  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape