From Buffalo to Long Island, the North Country to the Southern Tier, Cornell undergraduates – serving as interns – spent their summer enhancing life in New York.
Cornell University became part of a coalition to help enhance the quality of life for working parents and their newborns at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting Sept. 29.
Examining changes in parental unions near the time of childbirth, Cornell social science researchers have found that premarital births do not predict breakups so long as couples marry – at some point – after a child is born.
Cornell University, in partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, is opening a new $10 million MSKCC-Cornell Center for Translation of Cancer Nanomedicines. The center is based on development of nanoparticles called C dots.
Researchers described their cutting-edge research at a biomedical engineering symposium, “Understanding and Treating Disease: Inspirations from Womb to Tomb,” on campus Sept. 16.
Horticulture professor Phillip Griffiths is working to fight black rot in the sukuma wiki, a staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa, by cross-breeding with similar plants that resist rot.
Monika Safford, M.D. ’86, has been named chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Minimally Invasive New Technologies Program (MINT) at Weill Cornell Medical College teamed with entrepreneurs to establish Lumendi, a start-up producing endoscopic tools for gastrointestinal surgery.
