Celebrated bonobo Kanzi honored in workshop
Kanzi's legacy and the relation between great apes and language will be explored in a Humanities Lab Workshop on April 19.
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Psychology News
Engaged Opportunity Grants fuel community-engaged learning for students
Seven projects are receiving a boost from the latest round of Engaged Opportunity Grants, awarded two times a year by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement to teams of faculty or staff and their community partners.
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Cornell Center for Social Sciences names 2025-26 Faculty Fellows 
12 faculty members from seven colleges have been named 2025-26 Faculty Fellows with the Cornell Center for Social Sciences.
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Students gain decision-making insight from alumna Cheryl Einhorn
“If you’re outside of your comfort zone, then you’re on the right track."
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Power of babble: Babies elicit simpler speech from adults
Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech in response to babies’ babbling and early speech, supporting language development, new Cornell research finds.
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Short and sweet: Supportive texts give partners a boost
Supportive texts from a significant other can help people cope with stressful events in their daily lives, Cornell psychology research finds.
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Folk icon Peter Yarrow ’59, of Peter, Paul and Mary, dies at 86
Musician Peter Yarrow ’59, who drew early inspiration from his time at Cornell before joining the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died Jan. 7 in Manhattan.
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‘Politics, not policy’: Meta ending fact-check program
Psychology professor Gordon Pennycook, a misinformation expert, says he supports using crowdsourced fact-checking, "but removing third-party (professional) fact-checking strikes me as a major mistake.”
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