Robin Davisson looks back on her time at Cornell, and forward to new opportunities, as she and husband Cornell President David Skorton prepare to move in 2015.
President David J. Skorton has been named the next secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex. He will continue all the duties and activities of his office at Cornell through June 30, 2015.
From the sun, a solution: Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have remodeled an energy intensive medical test – designed to detect a deadly skin cancer related to HIV infections – to create an quick diagnostic assay perfect for remote regions of the world.
Weill Cornell Medical College has received a $75 million gift from Sandra and Edward Meyer ‘48 and the Sandra and Edward Meyer Foundation to enhance the medical college’s cancer research and care programs.
Six new technologies received 2013 Center for Advanced Technology awards for feasibility and proof-of-concept research to enhance the commercial value of such innovations.
Eight Cornell scientists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
To provide a corporate leg up to technology opportunities and startup companies emerging from research here, the new Cornell Technology Acceleration and Maturation program is designed to propel promising ideas toward commercial viability.
