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Faculty discuss curriculum changes in Arts and Sciences

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.

Memory limits give rise to open-ended language abilities

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.

New proposals sought for digital grants

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.

Cornell receives U.K. support to fight global wheat supply threats

Cornell will receive $10.5 million in aid from the U.K. to help an international consortium of plant breeders, pathologists and surveillance experts fight diseases hindering global food security.

Weill Cornell lab helps translate ideas into innovations

The Dean's Entrepreneurship Lab provides resources and education opportunities to students and faculty who have ideas with commercial potential that they want to translate from the lab to the patient.

Sloan program attracts diverse students at Visit Day

The Sloan Program in Health Administration hosted its first Visit Day in November to reach out to a broad spectrum of potential students.

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.