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Monday, August 18, 2025

Passion and Purpose Guide Incoming Class of 2029

Cornell welcomes 3,861 first-year students and 640 transfers who begin moving to campus Aug. 18. They hail from all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Mariana Islands, and 97 countries.

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Thursday, August 14, 2025
Building Energy Model Offers Cities Decarbonization Roadmap

Timur Dogan

Associate Professor Timur Dogan and his team used Ithaca as a case study to demonstrate a software tool that models building energy use and identifies cost-effective strategies to improve efficiency and reduce emissions.
Monday, August 4, 2025
Engaged Opportunity Grants Connect Students with Hands-On Community Projects

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Assistant Professor of Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam is featured for co-leading a student-supported project that uses augmented and virtual reality to enhance radiation therapy education. The project is funded through Cornell's Engaged Opportunity Grant program.

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Monday, August 4, 2025
Assessing Progress and Barriers to Ecological Restoration of State Property Buyout Programs

Linda Shi

Associate Professor Linda Shi coauthored a Next City op-ed summarizing multi-year research on state and local flood buyout programs. The article highlights how more equitable and ecologically restorative approaches can offer critical alternatives to the federally run FEMA model.
Thursday, July 24, 2025
A Bottom-Up Urban Building Energy Model for Evaluating Thermal Load Electrification Measures

Timur Dogan

Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan's paper in the Journal of Building Performance Simulation introduces a fully automated UBEM framework that integrates diverse data to model energy performance, evaluate retrofit and electrification scenarios, and advance decarbonization planning, demonstrated with over 5,000 buildings in Ithaca, NY.