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Denise Young Smith is Cornell Tech’s next executive-in-residence

Denise Young Smith, Apple vice president of inclusion and diversity, will become executive-in-residence at Cornell Tech in January 2018.

Entrepreneurs converge with students, alumni, faculty and staff at Summit

More than 500 people including alumni, faculty and students, gathered in New York City for Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s sixth Summit Nov. 3.

Dr. Anthony Hollenberg appointed chairman of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Anthony Hollenberg has been appointed chairman of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Campus-to-Campus holds photo contest

Show off your talent and participate in the C2C Photo Contest. Take pictures outside and inside the bus, the bus stops, locations in NYC, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech, outside The Cornell Club or whatever creative photos you can dream up. Encourage others to enter the contest, too.

Staff News

High schoolers spawn fish, grow lettuce on NYC school rooftop

Public officials and proud parents of Food and Finance High School students toured a first-of-its-kind aquaponics greenhouse at the school on Oct. 25.

NYC students catch science ‘bug’ with help from Cornell scientists

More than a dozen teenage scientists spent their lunch hour Oct. 24 learning from Cornell scientists about the chemistry of the Hudson River.

Transplantation of young blood vessel cells boosts aging stem cells

Transplanting young blood vessel cells into older mice can make their aged stem cells take on the characteristics of young stem cells.

Infusion of vascular cells to treat liver cirrhosis shows promise

A new therapy that uses blood-vessel-lining cells to regenerate damaged tissue has the potential to treat liver cirrhosis.

Parasitic disease linked to HIV infection

Women diagnosed with an infectious parasitic disease prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa are at increased risk of contracting HIV.