President Martha E. Pollack has committed the university to a new multi-institution initiative to make public data pertaining to career outcomes for life sciences doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers.
Avery August, professor of immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine and incoming vice provost for academic affairs, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor.
A symposium sponsored through the new Academic Integration Initiative aimed to link together collaborative research and discovery across Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech and Cornell’s main campus in Ithaca.
Events this week include two nights of Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers, student films at the Schwartz Center, a selection of recent movies at Cornell Cinema, and free talks on bird cams, snakes and pets.
Joseph Wakshlag, DVM ’98, Ph.D. ’05, will discuss pet nutrition Dec. 6, 6-7:30 p.m. at Cornell’s Baker Institute for Animal Health, 235 Hungerford Hill Rd., Ithaca, in a talk that is free and open to the public.
Cornell researchers have taken a major step toward answering a key question in cancer research: Why is testicular cancer so responsive to chemotherapy, even after it metastasizes?
