Applications open for community-engaged learning grants

The Office of Engagement Initiatives is accepting applications for grants to fund faculty, staff and students who are launching, advancing or participating in community-engaged learning at Cornell.

Study reframes the history of LGBT mental health care

Research co-authored by assistant professor of history Stephen Vider reveals that community-based clinicians play a key role in reshaping mental health care for LGBT people and broader attitudes about sexuality and gender.

Studies: Single-family rentals can limit access to housing

Suzanne Lanyi Charles, assistant professor of city and regional planning, looks at the effects of large corporations’ converting foreclosed houses into rental units in a pair of recently published research papers.

LGBTQ beauty vloggers draw on queer culture to stand out

New Cornell research explores how racially diverse LGBTQ beauty vloggers market themselves and make marginalized people more visible.

CIPA to integrate data science into its curriculum

The Cornell Institute for Public Affairs will revise its curriculum to ensure that all students graduate with proficiency in data science.

Feedback sought on two public policy models

A faculty committee’s interim report details the potential structure of a school or college of public policy at Cornell. The university community is invited to offer feedback in upcoming listening sessions, Nov. 20 and Dec. 12.

New center will foster data science research

Cornell’s Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society, launching this fall and led by David Shmoys, will enhance research in the increasingly important field of data science.

Struggle to save America’s cities is focus of University Lecture

Harvard University historian Lizabeth Cohen will examine the role of government and private enterprise in renewing urban areas in a University Lecture, Nov. 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall.

Two doctoral students win Fulbright-Hays fellowships

Cornell doctoral students Mary Kate Long and Jiwon Baik have received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education.