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Endowed scholarship challenge is launched

At the start of this year, Cornell launched a fundraising challenge aimed at creating up to 100 new endowed scholarships, totaling an estimated $25 million, for aid-eligible students.

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Invitational lecture to explore Freudian psychoanalysis

Tracy McNulty, Cornell professor of French and comparative literature, will explore the analytic act and its legacy through clinical examples and a reading of Freud's "Moses and Monotheism."

Weill Cornell to help plan international hospital in China

Weill Cornell Medicine has entered into an agreement with Tahoe Investment Group to assist in the development of an international hospital in Shanghai, China.

Ted Lowi, renowned political scientist, dies at 85

Theodore Jay Lowi, the charismatic Cornell professor of government whose seminal books became standards in political science discourse, died Feb. 17 in Ithaca, New York. He was 85.

Jenny Sabin's 'Lumen' wins MoMA PS1 competition

Assistant professor of architecture Jenny Sabin has won the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program design competition for "Lumen," a pavilion opening this summer at PS1 in Long Island City.

Lambda Chi Alpha placed on interim suspension

The Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life has announced that Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity has committed a serious violation of the University Recognition Policy and as of Feb. 16 has been placed on interim suspension status.

Kotlikoff Q&A: Next steps toward campus carbon neutrality

Last fall the Cornell Senior Leaders Climate Action Group submitted its report exploring heating and energy options for the Ithaca campus to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035. Here, Provost Kotlikoff discusses the university's next steps.

Grant to WCM creates rural care residency program in Ithaca

The Ithaca Medical Education Program brings Weill Cornell Medicine residents upstate for hands-on clinical experience and exposure to rural medical practice.

Things to Do, Feb. 17-24, 2017

Events this week include "The Great Dictator" in a Cornell Cinema "Demagogues" series; "Art and the Military" at the Johnson Museum; a book talk by economist Eswar Prasad; and the Vida Guitar Quartet.

Underwater seagrass meadows dial back polluted seawater

Seagrass meadows can reduce bacterial exposure for corals, other sea creatures and humans, according to new research in Science Feb. 16.

Mathematical models predict how we wait in line, traffic

Jamol Pender, assistant professor in Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, collaborated with Cornell colleagues to determine how we choose which line to wait in.

Biology students highlight community service projects

Students shared their experiences with local community service as part of the Office of Undergraduate Biology's Service Leaders Showcase Feb. 9 in Corson Mudd Hall.