This page details some of the many contacts available to you, should you wish to bring up an issue or incident on the team (or elsewhere).

All the resources on this page (except for those listed under Confidential Resources) may be required to report certain incidents to the Office of Institutional Equity and Title IX under University Policy 6.4. For a list of confidential resources, see the Confidential Resources section.

Internal Resources

Team Lead

The team lead can be useful as a first step, as well as for lower-level issues. The current team lead is Abigail Varghese.

Abigail Varghese

Abigail Varghese

Faculty Advisors

Faculty advisors can handle a wider array of situations, including those involving SDS accommodations, as well as personal matters. C2S2 currently has two faculty advisors:

Professor Christopher Batten

Christopher Batten

Professor Hunter Adams

Hunter Adams

Project Team Staff

Lauren Stulgis, Kate Reiter, Gibran El-Sulayman, and Noah Hamm are university staff that run the Project Team program. You can find more information about the Project Team Staff on their website here. They additionally have a shared email at eng_projectteams@cornell.edu, which will email all of them.

Lauren Stulgis, Swanson Director of Student Project Teams

Photo of Swanson Director, Lauren Stulgis

Best to contact for:

  • Policies
  • Credits
  • Grades
  • Contracts/Legal issues
  • Students of concern

Methods to contact:

Kate Reiter, Cunningham Assistant Director of Student Project Teams

Photo of Assistant Director, Kate Reiter

Best to contact for:

  • Applications/Recruitment
  • Budgets/Funding
  • Website Updates
  • General Advising

Methods to contact:

Gibran El-Sulayman, Project Teams Assistant

Photo of Gibran El Sulayman

Best to contact for:

  • Purchasing/Reimbursement
  • Card/Facility access
  • Travel planning

Methods to contact:

Noah Hamm, Project Teams Safety and Operations Supervisor

Photo of Noah Hamm

Best to contact for:

  • Safety Concerns
  • Dangerous/Hazardous Operations
  • ELL Space Infrastructure

Methods to contact:

You can also find many of these staff members in their offices in the ELL, which are just as you enter from the Engineering Quad entrance.

Student Support and Advocacy Services

If you are concerned about the well-being of you or a peer, Student Support and Advocacy Services are a great support system to utilize

  • Drop-In: 200 Willard Straight Hall, Monday - Friday, 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Phone:
    • 607-254-8598 (M-F 8:00am - 5:00pm)
    • 607-255-1111 (M-Th 5:00pm-8:30am, as well as weekends) (request the administrator-on-call)
  • Email: studentsupport@cornell.edu
  • Refer: (Non-critical) Complete this form

Office of Institutional Equity and Title IX

The Office of Institutional Equity and Title IX provides support for victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault. They can be contacted at:

If you have any other questions, another good resource is the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education (or SHARE) page, which can help you learn more about your different options and available resources.

Confidential Resources

Some of these resources are permitted to share de-identified statistical or other information with the University Title IX coordinator. For more information, see University Policy 6.4, page 29.

All faculty and staff of the university are required to report bias, discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct to the Office of Institutional Equity and Title IX, with the following exceptions:

Cornell Health

Community Response Team

Cornell Victim Advocacy Program

Women’s Resource Center

LGBT Resource Center

University Ombudsman

Office of Spirituality and Meaning-Making (OSMM)

The Advocacy Center of Tompkins County

  • A Tompkins County organization providing education and resources around Domestic and Sexual Violence
  • info@actompkins.org
  • Office Line: 607-277-3203
  • 24-Hour Hotline: 607-277-5000
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