Revisiting a hallowed ritual for doctors, a committee within the Weill Cornell Medical College convened this spring to craft an updated Hippocratic Oath, one that responds to the state of modern medicine. Written in ancient Greece, the oath expresses principles still fundamental to the practice of medicine today. (June 22, 2005)
NEW YORK -- Gladys Rosenthal, a genetic counselor, opened Weill Cornell Medical College's seventh annual Breast Cancer Symposium with the good news that breast cancer is becoming a manageable disease, with new knowledge pointing the way toward a cure.
NEW YORK -- Just a year after groundbreaking ceremonies, the centerpiece of the Weill Cornell Medical College's (WCMC) multimillion-dollar capital campaign was recently "topped out." The Ambulatory Care and Medical Education Building at 1305 York Ave. at 70th Street will house 330,000 square feet of modern, patient-oriented facilities and amenities, including state-of-the art equipment, a comfortable welcome center and several specialty clinical practices for integrated patient care. The building is scheduled to open in the fall of 2006.
The 2005 North American James Joyce Conference held June 14-18 at Cornell University was "bloody inspirin' fine," as the American poet Ezra Pound wrote in 1918 to the Irish author after reading an early chapter of "Ulysses."
James Joyce would have been right at home in 21st-century digital culture. He died in 1941, before the birth of the computer age, but his work can be seen as both a blueprint of contemporary hypermedia and a rich source for hypertextual applications, several scholars suggested at the 2005 North American James Joyce Conference, held June 14-18 at Cornell.
No one really knows what will happen when a probe from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft collides with the comet Tempel 1 in the early morning hours of July 4. But if anyone can picture the spacecraft's journey from its Cape Canaveral launch in January to its possibly brilliant demise, it is Cornell alumnus Dan Maas '01.
Catherine Oertel, a postdoctoral fellow in materials chemistry at Cornell and an organist herself, is researching what is corroding Baroque-era organs in churches and cathedrals across Europe.
Marianella Casasola, the Lois and Mel Tukman Endowed Assistant Professor in Human Development, was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) at the White House.
People who vacation at destination spas return home feeling a much greater sense of self-understanding as well as more connected to family, friends and work associates than do people who take other kinds of vacation, according to a study by Mary H. Tabacchi, associate professor at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.
Robert S. Harrison '76, a Cornell trustee, has endowed the directorship of Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences. The position currently is held by sociology Professor David Harris, who recently was named vice provost for social sciences.
Charles D. Cramton, assistant dean for graduate legal studies at Cornell Law School since 2000, was recently appointed to a special committee taking a comprehensive look at the current New York state bar examination. The committee is charged with determining the bar exam's effectiveness in measuring professional competence and the exam's effect on law school curricula and on diversity in the judiciary and the bar.
