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Two Sigma to be first tenant at The Bridge at Cornell Tech

Forest City Ratner Cos. announced Jan. 23 that Two Sigma Investments, a tech and investment firm, is the first company to be selected to locate at The Bridge at Cornell Tech.

Activist, theologian Osagyefo Sekou to lecture, perform

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.

PCCW microgrants fund women-led student projects

The President's Council of Cornell Women announced the recipients of its PCCW spring 2017 microgrants that support women-led student projects.

Jan. 31 faculty forum aims to foster adventurous students

A faculty forum – "Get Out of Your College!" – will discuss helping students get the most out of Cornell, Jan. 31 in the Klarman Hall auditorium.

Plants' chemical messages keep pests moving

Plant chemical defense systems keep pests moving to new plants in dense populations, thereby distributing damage evenly and leaving minimal damage on each plant in a field, a recent study finds.

Pope's picture spurs Republicans to shift climate views

After Pope Francis framed climate change as a moral issue in his second encyclical, conservative Republicans shifted and began to agree, according to a new Cornell study.

Rawlings offers condolences on death of Nellie Corson

Interim President Hunter Rawlings sent his condolences Tuesday to the family of Nellie Corson, widow of Cornell's eighth president, Dale Corson. Nellie Corson died Monday, Jan. 23, at the age of 102.

On economic mobility report card, Cornell earns top marks

Cornell helps set its students on the path to the American Dream, according to the Equality of Opportunity Project's "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility."

New technique improves blood flow to damaged tissues

A gene essential for making blood vessels in embryos can successfully transform amniotic cells into therapeutic blood vessel cells, according to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine.

Brain cells mobilize sugar in response to increased activity

New research from Weill Cornell Medicine provides insights into why the brain is so reliant on sugar to function.

Conference to explore Jonathan Culler's work on the lyric

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.

Linguist Herbert L. Kufner dies at 88

Linguistics professor Herbert L. Kufner, Ph.D. ’56, died on Oct. 20, 2016, in Unterhaching, Germany. He was 88.