NEWS In April, urban and regional studies senior Edward Anthes-Washburn was selected as one of 10 recipients of the universitywide Cornell Tradition Senior Recognition Award. The award included a $500 honorarium to be used as a donation to a nonprofit agency of his choice, and a one-year $4,000 Cornell Tradition Fellowship to be bestowed on another student in his honor during the next academic year. In December 2006, Asmita Bhardwaj, a Ph.D. candidate in city and regional planning, presented “From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution in India: 1965–2007” at the 9th Biennial International Conference on Ecological Economics held at Delhi (India). Jessica Daniels, a graduate student in city and regional planning, received a fellowship for summer 2007 from Solimar Research Group, Inc., to be a research associate. Solimar provides information and analysis on land use policy. The winter 2007 issue of Progressive Planning magazine includes four articles written by CRP students in a 2005 class taught by Professor Pierre Clavel. The articles are part of a special section dedicated to the “Progressive Cities and Neighborhood Planning” Collection at Cornell, and were created through archival research and an effort to build on the collection. The articles include “Walter Thabit: A Planner for Cooper Square,” by Colin Dentel-Post; “Expanding Public Spaces in Burlington, Vermont, 1981–2006” by Crystal Lackey; “North Brooklyn: Industrial Jobs Zoned Out,” by Daniel Pearlstein; and “Progressive Innovation in the 1970s: Madison, Wisconsin, and the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies,” by Jonathan Thompson. Gregory A. Donofrio, a Ph.D. candidate in historic preservation planning and visiting lecturer in CRP, is one of nine winners of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship. Donofrio will receive $1,500 and the opportunity to research for four weeks in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. His work is titled “The Container and the Contained: Preserving the Traditional Uses of Historic Food Markets.” A video installation entitled “Levers Project: Operation Roma,” by architecture student Billy Erhard, was presented in April by blueroom and Open Video Projects, at the Rialto Sant’Ambrogio in Rome. The work of M.F.A. student Shea Hembrey was on view at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in summer 2007, in an installation/walk of “mirror nests.” Hembrey has created replicas of birds’ nests with fine strips of embossed aluminum woven together using real nests as models. Hembrey’s recent work is being featured in New American Paintings volume 70, edited by Charlotta Kotik, contemporary art curator at the Brooklyn Museum. In the fall, Hembrey will begin an artist residency at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain. As part of an internship with New York City Economic Development Corporation, M.R.P. student Jason Kaye conducted an urban retail study of the Melrose section of the South Bronx. The study was part of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s South Bronx Initiative, which seeks to articulate a vision for the future of the South Bronx and to make plans to realize that vision. The Melrose area was selected for its high number of new construction and rehabilitation projects underway and because it is scheduled for completion by 2010. For more information about the study, see www.nycedc.com/melrose.
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Morgan Ng (B.Arch. ’07) was the head organizer of the Environmental Colloquium, held at Cornell’s Telluride House in April. The goal of the colloquium was to assemble an interdisciplinary group of scholars to critically analyze and adequately address environmental issues. The event was cosponsored by the Department of Architecture and included faculty members Dana Cupkova and Kevin Pratt. Meredith Nickie, a graduate student in fine arts, is one of four Cornell students spending the 2007–2008 academic year studying in Germany on a prestigious DAAD fellowship (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst, or German Academic Exchange Service). Nickie will study in Berlin at the invitation of Rebecca Horn, a noted artist and professor of multimedia at the Berlin University of Arts, to explore “identity and its visual representations.” Adriana Rodriguez Pliego, an undergraduate in the Department of Architecture, has been awarded this year’s AIA/TRKL Travel Fellowship. Each year, one student from a North American university receives the $2,500 prize, intended to “encourage and support foreign travel undertaken to further education toward a professional degree.” Rodriguez Pliego will travel to the Netherlands next summer to conduct a morphological study focusing on architecture that is adaptable to the effects of long-term climate change, specifically variant water levels.AAP 01 Architecture that cooks: For his senior thesis, Hugh Hayden designed a new headquarters for the James Beard Foundation in Manhattan, incorporating multiple cooking and food-derived architectures. 02 Gary He, Artist Lofts, Ithaca, New York. 03 Detail of Project by Javier Galindo. 04 An outreach effort takes art majors to a local detention center. Credit: Martha O’Connell.
SPRING 2007 STUDENT PRIZES AND AWARDS DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE American Institute of Architects Awards went to Patricia Brizzio, AIA Medal and Certificate; and Jason Teck Chye Lim, AIA Certificate. Alpha Rho Chi Medal, awarded to a graduating student who has shown ability for leadership, performed willing service for the school and shows promise of professional merit through his or her attitude and personality, went to Jonathan Moody, undergraduate; and Namita Dharia, graduate. Clifton Beckwith Brown Medal, awarded to the graduating student with the highest cumulative average in architectural design, went to Hyuck Jin Yoon. Kazuaki Terry Yoneda received the William Downing Prize, recognizing outstanding achievement in architectural design. Patricia Brizzio received a Merrill Presidential Scholarship. Brett Edward Desmarais received the Michael Rapuano Award for excellence in design. Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal: silver: Jennifer Chuong; bronze: Hugh Elliott Hayden, Jacqueline Stluka, Asami Takahashi. DEPARTMENT OF ART Ana Sousa received the John Hartell Graduate Award. Kathleen Hawkes received the Faculty Medal of Art and a Merrill Presidential Scholarship. Nora Hardwick Chase and Hannah Naomi Kim received the Department of Art Distinguished Achievement Award. The Charles Baskerville Painting Award went to Nora Hardwick Chase and Shea Hembrey. The Elsie Dinsmore Popkin Painting Award went to Alexa Dawn Rose and Jillian Beth Salik. DEPARTMENT OF CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING The Thomas W. Mackesey Prize, awarded in memory of the former dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, was given to Shigeru Tanaka. The American Institute of Certified Planners’ Outstanding Student Award went to Ann Fisher Dillemuth. The Peter B. Andrews Memorial Thesis Prize went to Lesli Hoey for the best Master of Regional Planning thesis. Emily Alice Goldman received the John W. Reps Award for a graduate student in Historic Preservation Planning who has demonstrated superior academic excellence. The Department of City and Regional Planning Graduate Student Community Service Award, given to socially conscious and active students who, through exemplary community service within and outside of the university, significantly contributed to the department, went to Diedra Schenelle Whittenburg. The Urban and Regional Studies Academic Achievement Award, given for outstanding academic achievement in the URS program, went to Todd Thomas Henry and Daniele Petrone. The Kermit C. Parsons and Janice I. Parsons Scholarship went to Emma Catherine Hamme, Mark Vorreuter, and Andrew Rumbach for their promising work in the department. The Robert P. Liversidge III Memorial Book Award recipient was Daniel Pearlstein.AAP
PLANNING STUDENTS WIN BUSINESS ETHICS GRANT The Planning Students of Color applied for and received a $1,000 Hatfield Grant on Business Ethics last spring. The group used the funds for a day trip to Rochester on April 21, where they met with representatives of various local groups to discuss race and class issues in the city. Student leaders of the group were Sukjong Hong and Aatisha Singh.AAP
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ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS SCORE NATIONAL AWARDS This year, students in the Department of Architecture received an unusually high number of prestigious national awards, walking away with scholarships, travel funds, and design commendations. Hugh Hayden (B.Arch. ’07) has been awarded a Skidmore Owings & Merrill Foundation Travel Fellowship, a $20,000 prize, to pursue his research. The fellowship enables an outstanding graduate to travel and pursue independent study after commencement. Hayden plans to document the formal and functional relationships between food, architecture, and design in the United States, Japan, France, and Spain, with the goal of creating a collection of “food and architecture pairings.” Hayden’s research will involve interviewing the world’s top chefs, experiencing their cuisines, and analyzing the spaces in which they occur, as well as surveying local and regional purveyors, foodstuffs, and culinary practices. Yueh-Nan Lu, a graduate student in architecture, has been selected for Perkins Eastman’s Shanghai Scholarship Program. Lu, one of only two students selected—based on their design strength, academic merit, and achievement—will spend eight weeks working in Perkins Eastman’s Shanghai office on projects located mainly in China. Lu is in his third year of the M.Arch. I program, and expects to receive his degree in late 2007. A native of Taiwan, Lu looks forward to experiencing Shanghai through a Western lens and transforming Western ideas to fit the Chinese milieu in terms of architecture and design. M.Arch. student Javier Galindo has been awarded one of three $10,000 travel fellowships from international architects Kohn Pedersen Fox. For the second year running KPF has invited submissions from the universities attended by their partners. Galindo’s portfolio was selected from among 43 entries. He traveled to capital cities in Latin America during summer 2007, studying rapid globalization. In July 2007, Jennifer Chuong, an undergraduate in architecture, won a Storefront/Control Group Student Award for her project Household Dwellings on the Surface. This was the first in a series of competitions that leverage technology in an attempt to bring a broader understanding of architectural thinking to the public. Third-year architecture student Gary He received one of four awards for design made by the Boston Society of Architects’ Pursuit of Housing awards program. His project—Artist Lofts, Ithaca, New York—was designed in the second-year studio The Sectional City, taught by Associate Professor Milton Curry. Second-year B.Arch. students Nicholette Chan, Andrew Kim, and Jean You won first place in the fourth annual AIAS/ICPF Chair Affair Student Design Competition, in which students design chairs utilizing corrugated board and glue. Selected from 176 entries, six finalists’ chairs were displayed in the AIAS Student Lounge and Gallery in San Antonio. They received a prize of $2,500.AAP 04
ART STUDENTS REACH OUT TO GIRLS IN DETENTION CENTER For an hour and half on Friday afternoons the members of Art Beyond Cornell exchange the walls of Tjaden Hall for those of a medium-security juvenile detention center about 15 miles outside Ithaca. At Lansing Residential Center about 20 female art majors have been offering weekly art classes to the young women who live and attend school there. The project began in 2005, when one particularly talented resident requested an art mentor. A group of students responded and now regularly prepare and give instruction each week. “We are not really trying to teach technique,” says Hannah Mattheus-Kairys, one of the founding members of Art Beyond Cornell, “so much as to encourage self-expression.” A number of the Lansing girls are not especially interested in art, but they value the time they spend with the Cornell students for other reasons. “Some of them are cut off and unresponsive, while others are very responsive. Our goal is to interact with them, have 04 fun, and talk,” says Mattheus-Kairys. “Participating in the process of art creates a place for people to communicate, relax, care, escape, and find out,” says Martha O’Connell, another Cornell participant. “We can never be sure what the girls take from the Friday afternoons, but they teach us so much, and hopefully they see how much we believe in art and in them.” Last year Cornell and Lansing students worked together to design and execute two murals at the facility, which is otherwise stark and institutional. In February of this year, for the first time, Art Beyond Cornell mounted an exhibit called “Voice” in Tjaden Hall, to bring the work of the Lansing residents to its first public audience. In recognition of their work and the exhibition, Art Beyond Cornell was honored with an Outstanding Activist Award by Cornell’s Student Activities Office.AAP
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