To demonstrate that by using creativity all employees can participate in Cornell's opportunities, Angela Winfield, director of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity, scaled the wall at the new Lindseth Climbing Center.
About 150 faculty members, and Interim President Hunter Rawlings, attended a Jan. 23 forum to discuss curriculum reforms in the College of Arts and Sciences.
A study in PLoS ONE led by Cornell psychology professor Morten H. Christiansen provides new insight into how languages come to be composed of reusable parts.
The Grants Program for Digital Collections in the Arts and Sciences seeks new proposals to digitize collections. The deadline for expressing initial interest is Feb. 17.
Activist, theologian, musician and public intellectual Rev. Osagyefo Sekou will lecture on "The Task of the Artist in the Time of Monsters," Jan. 30 at 4:45 pm in 142 Goldwin Smith Hall.
On Feb. 3-4, the English department will host an international conference to address the theoretical impact and importance of the groundbreaking "Theory of the Lyric" by professor Jonathan Culler.
Using a chemical "toolset" it developed, a Cornell group reports the ability to track a single protein's response to a chemical, which has implications in the emerging field of precision medicine.
An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant of $1.1 million will extend the interdisciplinary seminar series Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, established in 2014.
