Weill Cornell Medical College's Dr. Lewis C. Cantley has won the 2015 Canada Gairdner International Award from the Gairdner Foundation for his groundbreaking discovery of a family of enzymes that are fundamental to understanding cancer.
The College of Veterinary Medicine announced a gift from George Goldner and Nancy Krieg and will rename its farm animal hospital the Nemo Farm Animal Hospital in memory of the couple's beloved pig.
Amy Somchanhmavong, MILR ’02, co-founder of the Dragon Boat Festival, received the 21st annual Anne Tompkins Jones Awards for Community Service from the Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County.
Sital Kalantry, clinical professor of law, talked about sexual discrimination and racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in the U.S. and oppression of women in India March 15.
Winfried Denk, Ph.D. ’89, Karel Svoboda ’88, and David Tank, M.S. ’80, Ph.D. ’83, have won the Brain Prize for their groundbreaking work with two-photon microscopy. All three graduates worked in the laboratory of Watt Webb.
The winner of the 5th annual Saperstein Topical Sermon Contest, Jeremy Rosenberg '16, drew on Biblical sources to answer the question of whether we are in the midst of an environmental crisis.
Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources and safety services, is among the most influential women leading human resources today, according to the editors of the national magazine Human Resource Executive.
Sophomore Gabe Dean became the 17th NCAA champion in Cornell wrestling history to lead four All-Americans en route to a fifth-place team finish. Dean, one of two Big Red finalists March 21, defeated Lehigh's Nathaniel Brown 6-2 in the finals.
