Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, honoring the pioneering home economist who was among the first female faculty members at Cornell, is home to the College of Human Ecology and the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
Just outside is the PolyForm, a dazzling public-art pavilion with colorful glass walls and jewel-like stainless steel modules.
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🟡 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
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College of Human Ecology
Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
⭐ College of Human Ecology
The College of Human Ecology (CHE) applies an interconnected, empathetic and dynamic lens to address contemporary issues including health equity, sustainability and society and technology and human health.
Students identify, examine and develop solutions to local and global challenges in the areas of design and technology; human development and behavior; human health and nutrition; and economic and social well-being. Human Ecology also is home to Cornell majors in fashion design and fashion design management.
Approximately 75 percent of Human Ecology undergraduates pursue research with faculty during their time at Cornell. CHE takes innovation out of the lab and into the community through community-engaged learning and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.
Students identify, examine and develop solutions to local and global challenges in the areas of design and technology; human development and behavior; human health and nutrition; and economic and social well-being. Human Ecology also is home to Cornell majors in fashion design and fashion design management.
Approximately 75 percent of Human Ecology undergraduates pursue research with faculty during their time at Cornell. CHE takes innovation out of the lab and into the community through community-engaged learning and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.
⭐ Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Launched in fall 2021, the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy harnesses the university’s wide-ranging expertise in public policy teaching, research and engagement into a shared academic home. The school offers undergraduate majors in public policy and health care policy, as well as graduate-level programs in public administration and health administration.
With expertise in every region of the world, Brooks School faculty apply a global, interdisciplinary and problem-oriented focus to important public-policy issues in data science and technology policy; environmental and sustainability policy; global security; health policy; the politics and economics of development; race, racism and public policy; and social policy and inequality.
Students also have an opportunity to study policy and gain hands-on government experience through the Cornell in Washington program.
With expertise in every region of the world, Brooks School faculty apply a global, interdisciplinary and problem-oriented focus to important public-policy issues in data science and technology policy; environmental and sustainability policy; global security; health policy; the politics and economics of development; race, racism and public policy; and social policy and inequality.
Students also have an opportunity to study policy and gain hands-on government experience through the Cornell in Washington program.
