Immersive training to help prepare NYS for natural disaster

A three-day simulation on campus will put students and community members in the role of emergency responders during a humanitarian crisis.

Future healthcare leaders shine at Commencement ceremonies

Weill Cornell Medicine celebrated the Class of 2026 May 14 during two Commencement ceremonies at Carnegie Hall.

New approach designs healthcare robots with, not for, the people who use them

A new Cornell Tech-led study invites healthcare workers, long-term care residents, and community members to help design the robots themselves.

Around Cornell

Low-cost solution to parasite, poverty at risk from possible NSF cuts

Cornell-led research linking poverty and disease – and a promising path out of both – faces an uncertain future as federal science funding comes under pressure.

Oral GLP-1 medication helps patients maintain weight loss

Switching to the oral small molecule glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) orforglipron after taking injectable GLP-1s helped patients maintain most of their weight loss, a clinical trial involving Weill Cornell Medicine has found.

Wine’s leftovers could help wean chicken farms off antibiotics

A new study finds that grape pomace – the skins, seeds and stems left over from winemaking – may match the growth-promoting effects of antibiotic additives in broiler chickens, without the public health risks.

Entropy gives a ‘marriage’ of molecules just enough freedom

Researchers found entropy can help bind certain pairs of molecules faster and more robustly – an approach that could have broad applications in drug development and forming new materials.

New laws cut cannabis arrests, but racial disparities persist

While recreational cannabis laws have significantly reduced arrests for cannabis possession and sales, racial disparities in arrests still exist, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and the University of Texas at Austin.

A new kind of cold sensor

All life forms need to continuously adapt to temperature changes to survive. Now, Weill Cornell Medicine investigators studying a bacterial protein have identified a new mechanism of sensing cold temperatures.