Cornell dedicated the Human Ecology Building — the College of Human Ecology’s new 89,000-square-foot hub for interdisciplinary collaboration and design — at a ceremony last week.
The Big Red Bands Alumni Association demonstrated its sustained school spirit by funding the construction of a new 6,400-square-foot facility behind the Schoellkopf Crescent. Construction on the building, which will serve as the new home for the pep and marching bands, is expected to begin in 2012.
The temporary steel framing that is being installed on McGraw Hall will remain in place indefinitely due to a lack of funding from the University. However, the scaffolding will be removed in November.
The reconstruction of University Avenue will result in further delays for pedestrian traffic at the Fall Creek Suspension Bridge, which connects students who live on North Campus to Central Campus.
Weill Cornell Medical College’s new medical research building in New York City — the most expensive building project in Cornell’s history — is on schedule and under budget, according to Stephen Cohen, executive vice provost and executive vice dean of the medical school.
The planned building will house a first floor reserved for commercial use, two parking lots, a fitness center and four floors for residential apartments.
As construction continues on the new Human Ecology College building, a crystalline, geometric time capsule will be placed in the building this November.
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