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Theatre collaboration sets stage for community engagement

The Ithaca theater organization Civic Ensemble’s “Fertile Grounds” is a community-based play that invites the audience onto a fictional farming cooperative involving people of color to explore the relationship of grief, community and wellness.

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Theatre collaboration sets stage for community engagement

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Carley Robinson ’20 is directing the play “Fertile Grounds” for Ithaca’s Civic Ensemble.

Theatre collaboration sets stage for community engagement

Natalia Urbas '23 (3rd from left) receives the 2023 JFK award from members of the award committee, from left Cynthia Wolloch ’64, Carolyn Neuman '64 and Katie Dealy '00.

JFK Award winner to mentor girls of color in STEM

Sruti Yanamandra ’22, a master’s student in mechanical engineering, introduces Internet of Things technology to students at Geneva High School.

Students use the Internet of Things to connect, inspire

Abigail Boatmun ’23 receives the 2023 Campus-Community Leadership Award from Joel Malina, vice president for university relations.

Boatmun ’23 honored for campus-community leadership

Hannah Rudt in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.

CWSP student wins national student employee award

Maribel Garcia awardee advances STEM education in Angola

2023 Senior Spotlights

Einhorn Center Executive Director Basil Safi, left, and Douglas Kaplan ’88 present the 2023 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship to Gen Meredith

Kaplan faculty fellowship honors public health partnerships

Sheryn Albayati ’23 and Hannah Rudt ’23

Community Work Study Program students honored

Students’ island clean-up trip inspires multimedia projects

Members of Cornell’s Translator-Interpreter Program, winners of the 27th annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony.

Translator-Interpreter Program wins annual Perkins Prize

Front row (l-r): Alisha Robbins '26, Najeh Abduljalil '25, Yasmin Ballew '23, Michael Dicpinigaitis '24; Back row (l-r): Karen Yearwood, Adin Choung '26, Penny S. Haitkin '65, Basil Safi, Ryan Lombardi, Neil Giacobbi '96

Robinson-Appel Awards honor student service projects with local youth

New faculty award celebrates community engagement across Cornell

Maureen Waller will study driver’s license suspensions as an Access to Justice Scholar

New hires, new focus enhance academic initiatives at Einhorn Center

Service-learning helps students help communities

Blog post: The impact of community-engaged learning

Support the Einhorn Center on Giving Day

Student voting ambassadors boost civic engagement through Cornell Votes

CHOUNG | Giving back

MLK lecture examines racial justice after affirmative action

Center partners with ILR on new engaged, experiential programs office

MLK Commemorative Lecture: Racial justice after affirmative action

Cornell, NYSEG pilot app to help consumers moderate electricity use

Blog post: On the dynamics of kitchen utensils: Icebreakers, discussion and preparation!

Richlove Nkansah ’26

First-years share their transformational journeys ... so far

Althea Brennan '25

ILR School's Ithaca Co-Lab builds on research

Cornell receives national voting recognition

Town-gown awards honor food-related community partnerships

Laidlaw scholars at Cornell gain global perspectives

New fellows expand community-engaged learning network

Cornell Votes hosts second-annual civic celebration to commemorate unprecedented voter turnout

Cornell Votes members Dana Karami ’23, center, vice president of operations; Patrick Mehler ’23, founding member and president; and Lauren Sherman ’24, incoming vice president of external operations, gather in Willard Straight Hall.

Students get out the vote, on campus and across the state

Local teens conduct outdoor design research through Cornell collaboration

Nika Colley ’23, foreground, works on a teaching farm in Rochester as part of her summer internship through Cornell Cooperative Extension.

CCE interns recall summer experiences and community connections

Blog post: Skip the small talk!

Publication: Writing and Publishing Community-Engaged Scholarship

Blog post: Flexibility and Adaptability

Incoming students worked at the ReUse Center during the Pre-Orientation Service Trips program. Chris Kitchen.

Orientation service connects students with local community

Student’s research focuses on Indigenous agriculture system

Morgan Chen (left) and Anna Paaske '24, who is modeling a piece Chen created during her residency

Artist explores cultural identity by deconstructing materials

A high school student and librarian Daniel McKee participate in the Upward Bound summer program on Tuesday, July 20, 2022.

Upward Bound helps local high school students get to college

Douglas Kaplan ’88 presents award to Laura Niemi.

Niemi wins Kaplan Family Fellowship

Warner wins Levy Engaged Teaching and Research Award

Cornell engineering students built a cutting-edge, outdoor food-sharing cabinet to stave off chronic hunger among local residents.

Curbing hunger: Students build inventive outdoor food pantry

Katherine McComas, vice provost for land-grant affairs; Jenny Loeffelman, assistant vice president for student and campus life; Krista Saleet, deputy executive director for the David. M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement; Avery MacLean '22; Matthew Borinshteyn '25; Jennifer Lee '23; Marla Love, dean of students

Three students win Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards

A display table featuring some of the student projects.

With $400, students turn ideas into impact

Maribel Garcia Awardee increases connection through student stories

Five students receive SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

Students, county agency raise awareness of commercial sexual exploitation of children

Community engagement, scholarship, and leadership take Cornell students beyond campus

Students find many paths to discovery, insight and innovation

Mui Ho ’62, B.Arch. ’66.

Major gift endows Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities in AAP

Members of the Cornell Translator-Interpreter Program pose for a portrait in Kennedy Hall.

Student Translator-Interpreter Program breaks language barriers

Student Experience: The Grand Challenges Framework

John F. Kennedy Award recipient reimagines public safety

Grants aim to unite networks to increase impact

Student grants serve communities from New York to Ethiopia

CALS junior earns national award for addressing social change

Students’ tool forecasts manganese in Ithaca water supply

Unbuild better: a Collegetown case study in deconstruction

Justice for marginalized communities

Volunteer scientists change opinions about vaccines

Engineers propose greener recycling for medical PPE waste

Patrick Mehler '23, left, Kiran Ganga '24 and John Hanna '24 are members of Cornell Votes, a university-wide, nonpartisan group seeking to increase civic engagement on campus, and promote voter registration and turnout.

Cornell Votes hails 2020 rise in student voter turnout

Jason Jiang (Dining) and Zhijie (Jacky) Cheng (Engineering) study food safety and English.

CLASP participants celebrate growth in learning partnerships

Faculty build network of community-engaged teachers, scholars

Glass half full: Cornell’s COP26 delegation returns informed, inspired

Global Health students participating in the KCMU-Co collaboration in 2019, the last time the program was in-person.

Forum showcases community-engaged learning projects

Cornell, Ithaca College effort moves housing project forward

Cornell’s first Laidlaw scholars research, lead

Community partnerships honored at 2021 TOGO awards

In the virtual front row, Cornell students saw COP26 unfold

First-Generation Student from Harlem Leads College Prep Course for Underprivileged High School Students

Student organization promotes early childhood STEM education in Ithaca

An Oct. 22 ceremony in the Statler Hotel formally dedicated the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, honoring Cornell Trustee David M. Einhorn ’91, who has provided endowment funding for the center through his foundation, Einhorn Collaborative.

David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement dedicated

Panel explores ‘cutting-edge’ Engaged College Initiative

Students recount life-changing CCE internships

Youth participants and researchers celebrate the completion of the program at the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem. Members of the Leak research group, bottom left to right: Doctoral candidate Navika Gangrade; Thais Salas ’23; Samantha Heller ’23; Hannah Rudt ’23, YeonJin Jung ’22 and Dane Allen ’23.

Students teach NYC teens about food systems, justice

New moral psychology minor takes on challenging questions

Community of practice explores digital storytelling in the classroom

Students’ satellite mission explores earliest universe

New engaged course supports NYS rural schools

Emma Harte worked to protect shorebirds this summer.

Helping shorebirds, refugees through summer work

Research partnership supports NYS families fighting opioids

Student veteran given Maribel Garcia Community Spirit Award

Cornell Atkinson awards $1.8 million to fund vital collaborations

Joseph Margulies, professor of law and visiting professor of government (GOVT).

Margulies receives Levy faculty engagement award

Blog showcases community-engaged learning and social change

Krista Saleet, will be deputy executive director of Public Engagement, and Basil Safi, will be executive director.

New center expands community engagement opportunities

Break it down: CR0WD task force forges zero waste goals

New global development major unites classroom, field training

Faculty profiles: From circular construction to academic law ambition

Cornell poet’s play “Trap Door” opens an aperture into Ithaca history

Students capture Ithaca civil leaders’ oral histories in new book

Engaged learning spotlight: beyond incarceration

2021 Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award recipients

Alice Soewito receives Class of '64 John F. Kennedy Memorial Award

Joanna Papadakis ’21 honored for town-gown innovation

Rachel Bezner Kerr: Taking a farmer-led approach to food justice

Students ‘serve in place,’ reflect on community action

Newman Civic Fellow works for meaningful change

Author Valarie Kaur to kick off new CURW speaker series

Community-engaged learning initiative helps students change the world

New initiative engages communities in neuroscience

Brianna Johnson ’21, a student researcher on a Cornell team working to increase food security for local residents.

New research grants support Ithaca-area communities

Cathy Creighton ’87 to direct ILR’s Buffalo Co-Lab

Students help man win freedom after 28 years in prison

Maribel Garcia Community Spirit Award recipient announced

Laidlaw Scholars undergraduate program comes to Cornell

Summer interns discuss storytelling project in CCE podcast

Grants fund community-engaged learning curricula

Community-engaged learning to build on colleges’ strengths

Glass continues Cleveland transdisciplinary studio and CRP workshop with Engaged Faculty Fellowship

NSF funding to help erase upstate NY’s digital divide

Twenty new Engaged Faculty Fellows named

Brothers’ nonprofit feeds hungry in native Puerto Rico

Task force fills food gaps for families

New Engaged Research Grants awarded to 14 partnerships

Summer practicum underway for first rural humanities cohort

Maureen Waller receives 2020 Engaged Scholar Prize

Online showcase celebrates students’ community engagement

Students reflect on engaged experiences, leadership

ILR’s Ithaca Co-Lab to focus on engaged learning, outreach

Professor helps organize county food task force

Website charts COVID-19 spread across NY state

Smooth start to virtual instruction, thanks to weeks of prep

Cornell joins global research university climate alliance

Students face pandemic disruption with resilience

Students sketch Ossining’s budding waterfront ideas

Getting climate smart in Armenia

Yunyun Wang ’20 awarded national fellowship

Yunyun Wang ’20 awarded national fellowship

Four students receive Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards

Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research in the ILR School, has been awarded the 2020 George D. Levy Faculty Award, which recognizes a faculty member whose community collaborations serve as models for outstanding community engagement in higher education.

Bronfenbrenner wins Levy faculty engagement award

Cornell launches science communication minor

Burrow, Felippe named provost’s fellows for public engagement

A panel on community partnerships, from left: Jeff Godowski, assistant dean of Flora Rose House; Ansley Jemison, adviser for New York State Opportunity Programs; and Joyce Muchan ’97, assistant director for student development at the Public Service Center.

Staff share experiences in community-engaged work

Engagement grant will help support disability advocacy

Shelter medicine program takes veterinary care to rural area

CLASP participants connect through lifelong learning

Pelosi meets Cornell students at UN climate change meeting

Student engineers to ply their green skills in NYC

Town-gown awards to recognize community partnerships

Talia Bailes ’20, founder of Ballet and Books, leads a class at the Southside Community Center Oct. 26.

Students pair ballet and books in Ithaca outreach program

Michael Drake, left, 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 Katherine McComas, vice provost for engagement and land-grant affairs.

Cornell support for NY farmworkers wins national recognition

Play looks at how climate change will impact Ithaca’s future

Symposium seeks to beat back ‘zombies,’ grow sustainable housing

New global development unit calls for ‘education with impact’

Students to prep youth with disabilities for employment

Entrepreneurship faculty win grants for course help

Cornellians provide ‘greatest good’ return on investment

Debra Castillo, the Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Comparative Literature and director of the Latina/o Studies Program, gives her presentation on Latinx cultural collaborations during the Rural Humanities Showcase, Sept. 6 at A.D. White House.

Rural Humanities Showcase touts Cornell-community projects

An Architect’s Lens on Societal Wellbeing

Anthony Burrow receives Engaged Scholar Prize

Moseley receives Engaged Cornell faculty award

Salma Shitia honored with Kennedy award

Two named 2018 Kaplan Faculty Fellows for service-learning work

Radcliffe honored for wildlife preservation community partnerships

Allred receives third annual Engaged Scholar Prize

Students in the Cornell in Washington program with Christine Leuenberger, front row, second from left, a senior lecturer in the Department of Science & Technology Studies.

Students tackle climate policy in Cornell in Washington course

Participating in the panel discussion on community engagement are, from left: Moderator Amanda Wittman, Rochelle Jackson-Smarr, Rafael Aponte, Mané Mehrabyan '17 and Fabina Colon.

Institute helps staff help students succeed in community engagement

A pedestrian and walking path atop breakwaters, shown in this rendering, could encourage wetland growth and protect Piermont from storm debris.

Students envision future of Hudson River town confronting flooding

Collaborative play transcends borders, cultures

Rebecca Burd '20 tutoring Boyton Middle School student Da-Kaw Correia part of a after-school program of a Cornell freshman writing class tutoring middle school students.

Cornell, Boynton students find common ground through writing

Max Zhang in Ithaca with home that uses wood as a heat source.

Engineer Max Zhang awarded Engaged Scholar Prize

Bruce Levitt, professor of performing and media arts (PMA) works with students during a rehearsal for a play in Auburn, NY related to the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP).

Bruce Levitt awarded inaugural Engaged Scholar Prize

Hannah McKinney wins JFK Award for prison advocacy work

Owen Lee-Park awarded Community Spirit Award