A recent gift created an interdisciplinary center at Weill Cornell Medical College to study Alzheimer's disease. Finding ways to better understand and treat the devastating illness is the subject of several efforts already under way. (Jan. 23, 2007)
Hector Abruna, Barbara Baird, Geoffrey WIlliam Coates, Michael Shuler and Mariana Wolfner have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
On Jan. 22, suspended Cornell student Nathan Poffenbarger was sentenced in Tompkins County Court to 16 months to four years in state prison for a hate-crime stabbing. (Jan. 23, 2007)
Faculty, academic staff and junior and senior students are invited to nominate tenured faculty members for the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows Award. Nominations are due by March 7. (Jan. 23, 2007)
People feeling sad tend to eat more of less-healthy comfort foods than when they feel happy, finds a new study co-authored by Cornell's Brian Wansink. However, when nutritional information is available, those same sad people curb their hedonistic consumption, but happier people don't. (Jan. 23, 2007)
Harvard professor Richard J. Light discussed his research about making colleges more effective learning environments by improving communication between graduate students and postdocs and faculty. (Jan. 23, 2007)
Sandra M. Gilbert '57, the first M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell, will speak along with Abrams on literary topics Jan. 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Applied economics and management students who put their small business skills to the test last semester have received awards for outstanding work in their Small Business Management Workshop class. (Jan. 22, 2007)
A chance meeting between a future Weill Cornell Medical College student and a security guard has led to the creation of a Cornell group that hopes to provide support to a medical clinic in Sudan, and also brought a 'lost boy' of Sudan to speak Jan. 3. (Jan. 22, 2007)
President David Skorton's first grand rounds lecture at Weill Cornell Medical College Jan. 18 broadly discussed the public service and outreach roles of academic health centers both within Cornell and the community at large. (Jan. 19, 2007)
