Cornell Center for Health Equity offers racial allyship training

The Cornell Center for Health Equity has launched its racial allyship training course, providing anyone who wants to learn to be a better ally with essential skills and tools they can use in their personal and professional lives.

Unique biomarkers discovered for COVID, MIS-C in children

Researchers have identified blood biomarkers that could help pediatricians quickly diagnose severe cases of COVID-19 as well as multisystem inflammatory syndrome, also known as MIS-C, which emerged during the pandemic.

Dietetics students to host themed dinners for Cornell community

Nutrition Students and Campus Dining are partnering to offer two special themed dinners on April 25 in Cook House and Keeton House.

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Archive cements female physicians into Weill Cornell history

Pauline Flaum-Dunoyer has interviewed more than a dozen women physicians of color, and donated the recordings and transcripts to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, where their legacies will be preserved for future generations.

Hartwell award to fund study of mitochondrial disease in children

Joeva Barrow, assistant professor of molecular nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, has won a 2022 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which funds biomedical research to advance children’s health.

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Eight students receive SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

A diverse group of students and recent graduates representing Cornell’s four contract colleges has been selected to receive the 2023 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.

Cerebral blood vessels reveal potential stroke drug target

Strokes cause changes in gene activity in affected small blood vessels in the brain, changes that may be targetable with existing or future drugs to mitigate brain injury or improve stroke recovery, according to Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.

Sloan students organize case competition: “An experience of a lifetime”

Culminating a year of planning by the Healthcare Students Association in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy's Sloan Program in Health Administration, a case competition  attracted 40 teams representing the nation’s top graduate programs in health care and related fields.

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Edward Meyer ’49, Weill Cornell Medicine benefactor, dies

Edward H. Meyer ’49, a member of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Board of Fellows and devoted benefactor, died April 11 in New York, at age 96.