A panel of four Cornellians discussed the challenges surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, May 2 at the annual, student-sponsored annual Sick in America series. (May 5, 2011)
Cornell President David Skorton, chemist Geoffrey Coates, physicist Sol Gruner and mathematician Laurent Saloff-Coste are among 212 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (April 21, 2011)
Experts across multiple disciplines will convene at the Hilton New York March 28 for the Second World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes. (March 25, 2011)
Cornell has submitted an expression of interest proposal to New York City to create a new applied sciences and engineering research center and campus in the Big Apple.
Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine is ranked the best in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report. The College of Engineering is ranked 10, with seven disciplines in the top 10. (March 17, 2011)
More than 650 scientists, physicians and other health care practitioners gathered in Doha for the XVII International DALM Symposium on Diabetes, Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome, March 14-16. (March 16, 2011)
Richard Daines, M.D. '78, former health commissioner and a leader in the battle against childhood obesity, died unexpectedly Feb. 26 at his home in Stanfordville, N.Y. He was 60. (Feb. 28, 2011)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first clinical trial in humans of brightly glowing 'Cornell Dots' to aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. (Jan. 31, 2011)
A study shows how a positive outlook can reduce the suffering of chronic pain; another how it eases the potentially devastating effects of being widowed. Both are published in Psychology and Aging. (Jan. 26, 2011)
