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Historians launch Immigration Syllabus website

2/1/2017 Cornell Chronicle

"We hope the suggested readings, primary sources, and multimedia sources will help educators and citizens in their teaching and public discussions," says historian Maria Cristina Garcia.

From the president

President Rawlings issues statement on immigration executive order

1/29/2017

The university has created a new resource page for faculty, staff and students concerning the Jan. 27 presidential executive order on immigration. Interim President Hunter Rawlings also sent the following message to the Cornell community Jan. 29:

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Psychology

Memory limits give rise to open-ended language abilities

1/30/2017 Cornell Chronicle

A hallmark of human language is our ability to produce and understand an infinite number of different sentences. This unique open-ended productivity is normally explained in terms of “structural reuse”; sentences are constructed from reusable parts such as phrases. But how languages come to be composed of reusable parts in the first place is a question that has long puzzled researchers in the language sciences

Cornell library

New proposals sought for digital grants

1/30/2017 A&S Communications

With so much research and exploration being conducted online, having material available digitally is vitally important to faculty and students.

History

Historian re-examines Caribbean history in new book

1/26/2017 A&S Communications

Ernesto Bassi says few other places in the world were as geopolitically complex as the Caribbean in the mid-18th to mid-19th century,

Music & Medieval Studies

New book takes sound studies into the cosmos

1/26/2017 A&S Communications

“We can hear the universe” declared researchers at LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) announcing the first detection of a gravitational wave last year.By capturing a sonic translation of two black holes colliding more than a billion years ago, scientists had finally achieved what ancient scholars had long dreamed of: translating the “music of the spheres” into sound humans can hear.

Alumni

Cornellians honored with Oscar nods

1/26/2017 A&S Communications

"Arrival" and "Hacksaw Ridge" feature Cornell alumni in key production and writing roles.

Curriculum

Faculty discuss curriculum changes in Arts & Sciences

1/25/2017 Arts & Sciences Communications

“The curriculum belongs to the faculty, 100 percent,” declared Interim President Hunter Rawlings at a faculty forum Jan. 23 in the Rhodes Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall.

Physics

Uncovering new insights into quantum materials

1/23/2017 Cornell Research

Kyle Shen, associate professor of physics, creates and investigates artificial and unconventional materials with unusual electronic and magnetic properties. His research into these new materials and their potential applications is explored in this Cornell Resarch story.

Society for the Humanities

Mellon grant extends collaborative seminar series

1/23/2017 Cornell Chronicle

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved $1.1 million to extend the Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities (AUH) interdisciplinary seminar series at Cornell for four years.

Chemistry

Group uses its own 'toolset' to probe chemical responses

1/23/2017 Cornell Chronicle

Using a novel chemical procedure developed in her lab, Yimon Aye and her group are helping to blaze a trail in the emerging field of precision medicine by targeting and modulating single proteins to achieve desired responses.

In Memoriam