A team of physicians, paramedics and emergency medical technicians from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's Emergency Medicine Department traveled to provide needed primary care to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has awarded the Cornell Population Program a $1.15 million grant to expand its abilities to conduct national and international demographic research. (Aug. 15, 2008)
Cornell's Survey Research Institute asked New Yorkers: If the state does not have enough money to balance its budget and pay for existing programs, would you raise taxes, cut state programs or borrow money? (July 6, 2010)
Events on campus this week include an exhibit on early Cornell women scientists, the first Bound for Glory and Department of Music concerts of the season, the start of salsa lessons and a lecture on race and crime.
Facing the same budgetary challenges as the university in the coming year, Cornell University Library will reduce acquisitions of library materials by 7.1 percent for fiscal year 2010. (April 14, 2009)
"Kids when they're five don't make up stories like that." "We'd had sex before, and I didn't see it as rape." "You feel you must have done something wrong." These are the voices of survivors of sexual assault, and Jason Dilley, a San Francisco--based artist, believes they are too seldom heard.
Despite the grim economy, campus career experts emphasize that a Cornell degree still holds value in the marketplace. Nonetheless, many are ramping up their efforts to help job-seeking Cornellians. (Oct. 30, 2008)
Some 40 educators from 18 New York counties attended a Cornell Educational Resources for International Studies workshop June 27-29 on teaching world knowledge via food customs and production. (July 1, 2010)
Don M. Randel, provost of Cornell since 1995 and a faculty member since 1968, has been recommended to the board of trustees of the University of Chicago to serve as its 12th president, the University of Chicago.
Two new leadership appointments in the Graduate School have been filled by external candidates who bring strengths in inclusion, mentoring, grant-writing and graduate student professional development. (July 19, 2011)