Student Notes An exhibit by Elizabeth Corkery (M.F.A. ’13) appeared recently in New York City. Galerie, a storefront installation of five works that each consisted of multiple, modular, handprinted panels, appeared at 303 10th Avenue in New York City in late October. Corkery also received a grant from the Ian Potter Cultural Trust to spend a month in the United Kingdom this past summer. As a dual U.S./Australian citizen, Corkery was eligible to apply to the Australian-based organization, which offers grants to “assist early career artists of exceptional talent to undertake professional development, usually overseas.” An exhibit titled Exploring Fall Creek and Cascadilla Glen Trails and Gorges featured work by students in associate professor of art Greg Page’s Introduction to Print Media class. The exhibit was on display at the Cornell Plantations’ Nevin Welcome Center during November and December. The students created photographs, photo-positive lithographic plates, and combinations of a traditional lithographic stone and woodcut relief prints as a way of comparing today’s gorges to what they looked like 100 years ago. As part of an independent study during the fall semester, Christian Higgins (B.S. URS ’14) worked with Chemung County Transit in Elmira to produce a transit corridor study on a bus route that runs from downtown Elmira to Arnot Mall
in Horseheads, New York. The study, which included a survey conducted by Higgins, analyzed ways to increase ridership along the route. Quinn Kelly (B.S. URS ’14) spent the summer as an intern for the city of Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he focused on bicycle transportation planning. He moved an on-street bicycle infrastructure plan from the public input stage through approval by the city council and into the creation of final design. Katie MacDonald (B.Arch. ’13) and Kyle Schumann (B.Arch. ’13) recently received a Cornell Council for the Arts grant to rework their furniture collaboration, Wavepier, and build it on the Cornell campus this spring. Wavepier originally won an honorable mention in the Hernesaari Urban Furniture Competition in Helsinki, Finland, last spring, and appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of AAP News. Fifth-year CRP Ph.D. student Scarlett Zuo presented “Vehicle Lifetime Trends and Scrappage Behavior in the U.S. Used Car Market” at the Third International Conference of Regional Science Association International (RSAI) in Beijing, China, and the Ninth World Congress of the RSAI in Timisoara, Romania. She also attended the Association of Environmental Resource Economists’ Second Annual Summer Conference in Asheville, NC. AAP
CRP Interns: Summer 2012 “Professionally focused summer internships are an integral piece of our programs. Dozens of placements are made each year, and are often supported through a matching grant program. The internships provide opportunities for our students to explore their fields of interest, and learn from the unpredictability of “real world” or non-academic planning. West coast or east coast, in the U.S. or abroad, our students return to campus with eye-opening experiences, ideas for projects and new directions of study, and a firmer sense of what their career options really involve. See below for several examples of last summer’s projects.” Professor John Forester, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of City and Regional Planning
HAUD Exhibition Work from the fall 2012 History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD) Graduate Practicum taught by Mary Woods, the Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architecture, was on display at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art this winter. The seminar and exhibit, both titled Mirror of the City: Imagery from Rome to Detroit, 1450–2012, explored how imagery shapes, brands, and archives cities,
including Rome, Paris, Havana, New Orleans, New York, Delhi, Detroit, and others, from the 1450s to the present day. Inspired by Mirror of the City: The Printed View in Italy and Beyond, 1450–1940, another exhibit on display at the museum at the same time, the seminar looked at how repeatable images have shaped urban aspirations and nightmares, as well as realities. AAP
Student Awards
CRP Graduate Student Receives USDA Fellowship
Pamela Mikus Graduate Fellowship Rafia Usmani (M.R.P. ’12) Gibian-Rosewater Award Xin (Scarlet) Meng (B.F.A. ’13) Earl R. Flansburgh Merit Award Seijin Na (M.Arch. ’14) Granted for the 2011–12 academic year
Ph.D. candidate Becca Jablonski, CRP, has been awarded a $75,000 fellowship with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to create a methodology for assessing the economic impact of local food systems on rural communities. Granted by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the two-year fellowship is designed to develop the next generation of scientists who will lead agriculture into the future. Jablonski is testing the methodology with several case studies of local food system initiatives in New York state. The results of her research, which is part of her dissertation, could help state, local, and federal policy makers craft an agenda for rural economic development.AAP
Birk, Ellington, and Springer. photo / provided
Three students spent the summer in Palestine. Eva Birk (M.R.P. ’13) interned with the Barrier Monitoring Unit (BMU) of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which documents the impacts of the West Bank Barrier wall. Birk’s work is helping to form a learning alliance between BMU and Cornell, and also implement action research tools for their projects. Amy Ellingson (M.R.P. ’13) worked with the Riwaq Center, a Palestinian architectural conservation organization in Ramallah. As part of a protection plan that Riwaq is drafting, Ellingson’s work included survey studies of the historic center of Ramallah’s old city. Haden Springer (M.R.P. ’13) worked for Bayti Real Estate Investment Company, the developer of the first planned city in Palestine, called Rawabi, located about 10 kilometers north of Ramallah. As a planning intern under a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant at the Piedmont Triad Regional Council (PTRC) based in Winston-
Salem and Greensboro, North Carolina, Desmond Corley (M.R.P. ’13) did research to create and implement a selfassessment for sustainable practices for each member jurisdiction in a 12-county region. Corley’s work also included scenario testing using CommunityViz and Envision Tomorrow, and creating a regional retail food environment index. Three URS students— Christian Higgins (B.S. URS ’14), Jack Newton (B.S. ’13), and A. J. Velarde (B.S. URS ’14)— interned with Metro North in New York City. Higgins’s internship focused on collecting head counts and data on multiple positions, and working on budgets. Newton worked for the long-range planning department on a number of projects, including conducting an economic impact analysis study on the capitalization effects of the Second Avenue Subway Line on surrounding real estate prices. Velarde headed her own project, planning bike racks at
Metro North stations. Catherine Jung (B.S. URS/B.A. History of Art ’13) interned with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, managing collections in the Asian Arts department. There, she photographed 300 ceramic artifacts for the museum’s website, contributed notable acquisition descriptions to the museum’s biannual newsletter, and led tours for visitors. On her tours, she often chose to focus on animals in art, which mostly consisted of sculptures, as well as the representations of women in art, which
covered a wider variety of mediums. Catalina Marshall (M.R.P. ’13) worked at the Capital Projects and Planning Office of Cornell University. Marshall worked with a team to put together a complete street proposal for the Cornell campus. The project involved multimodal integration catering to vehicles, transit, pedestrians, and bikes, and addressed current issues in campus transportation, landscape, and public spaces. Jennifer Pierce (M.R.P. ’13) worked for the International Council for Local Environmental
Initiatives (ICLEI), an association of local governments for sustainability, at their Biodiversity Center in Cape Town. She prepared a toolkit for mainstreaming biodiversity plans across local governments and an analysis of 12 local biodiversity strategy and action plans. Pierce also gave a presentation at ICLEI’s Urban Nature Conference in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and served as a representative for ICLEI at “Rio+20: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.”AAP