Two Cornell undergraduates are among a very select group of students, nationwide, chosen to receive 2003 Rhodes Scholarships for two or three years of study at Oxford University in England.
The Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets Thursday, Dec. 12, at 4 p.m. in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., New York City.
Santa Claus around the world is known in many guises: He is Father Christmas in Britain and Kris Kringle in Germany. In Hawaii, Santa arrives by outrigger canoe, and in Australia, by water skis wearing a red bathing suit.
New York, NY (December 9, 2002) -- Gleevec, the new anti-leukemia drug from Novartis Pharmaceuticals, achieves a marked improvement in survival even for patients in the accelerated phase of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), according to a study to be presented on Monday afternoon, Dec. 9, at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in Philadelphia.Comments Dr. Richard T. Silver, a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center, who will present the findings: "Until now, the story of this disease has been like the story of Sisyphus who was condemned by the gods to roll a great stone up a mountain for all eternity. Gleevec has brought us a lot closer to the mountaintop than we've ever been."
A New York physician who has played a leading role in testing the Novartis drug Gleevec against leukemia is also finding it effective against a second disease involving blood-cell overproduction.
Barbara T. Abrams, associate director of financial aid at Cornell University, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA).
Rebecca Sparrow, director of career services for the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, has been named director of Cornell Career Services, Edna Dugan, assistant vice president for student and academic services, announced/
New York and Toronto (December 4, 2002) -- Study findings from the Department of Public Health at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Inner City Health Research Unit at St. Michael's Hospital/University of Toronto demonstrate that screening and treating new immigrants from developing nations for the latent stage of tuberculosis infection would result in substantial public health and economic benefits. Results are published in the December 5 issue of "The New England Journal of Medicine."Lead author Dr. Kamran Khan conducted his research in the United States while a resident/fellow in preventive medicine in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell. He is currently a specialist in infectious diseases and public health, and a clinician-scientist at St. Michael's in Toronto.
Cornell Law School Professor Larry Palmer, a nationally renowned expert on health policy and law, will join the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law in Louisville, Ky., in January 2003.
From dangerously rundown houses in rural upstate New York to urban shantytowns in Latin America, substandard housing is a growing international problem linked to globalization and poverty.
