Anthony P. Bretscher, professor of cell biology, and Catherine Lord, professor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, join Barack Obama, Tom Hanks and 209 others as newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A multi-campus study of lymphoma shows that certain cell mutations in tumors can cause the cancer to be resistant to chemotherapy, with biophysical forces such as fluid flow playing a key role.
Physics professor Erich Mueller and doctoral student Shovan Dutta propose a new technique for creating the quantum state that can yield anyons, unique particles that could form the hardware for future quantum computers.
Cornell will hold the first Annual Cancer Research Symposium to showcase diverse and groundbreaking cancer research on campus, and to better integrate investigators from the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine.
