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Wharton undergraduate student Corey Fader is featured for having a condition called avoidant/restrictive food-intake disorder, ARFID. Doctoral student Hannah Zickgraf of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about leading a study on the attitudes and behaviors of adult picky eaters. Martin Franklin of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences is also quoted.

Spelman College has discontinued a professorship endowed by Bill Cosby, a university spokeswoman said. After suspending the professorship last year in the wake of mounting accusations of sexual assault against Mr. Cosby, the college terminated the program and returned the related funds to the Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation, the spokeswoman, Audrey Arthur, said in a brief statement. The foundation was established by Mr. Cosby’s wife, Camille. The Cosbys have had a long relationship with Spelman, a historically black women’s college in Atlanta. Two of Mr.

Anthea Butler of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about Republican president primary strategies.

Bruce Brod of the Perelman School of Medicine urges people not to fear contagion when others have a poison ivy rash.

Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is cited for studying enrollment at minority-serving institutions.

Jeffrey Drebin and Peter O’Dwyer of the Perelman School of Medicine talk about adding vitamin D to the treatment regimen for some pancreatic cancer patients.

Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on choosing the best retirement plan and how people contribute to it.

Ritesh Agarwal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science comments on computing using light and photo-detector devices.

Four days after a campus police officer shot and killed a 43-year-old man during an off-campus traffic stop, Santa J. Ono, the University of Cincinnati’s president, announced an overhaul of the university’s police department. The changes made on Thursday — which may be temporary, depending on the outcome of meetings with city leaders — include a directive that the university's police officers conduct traffic stops only within campus boundaries.

Ritesh Agarwal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science explains how a photodetector sensitive to the “spin” of photons could improve computing.