The graduation ceremony marked a milestone in American higher education, as Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City became the first U.S. medical school to grant its M.D. degree on foreign soil. (May 8, 2008)
Iain D. Boyd, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, has been selected to receive the 1998 Lawrence Sperry Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Angela King, adviser on gender issues and the advancement of women to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is the keynote speaker at a major international symposium on the AIDS pandemic March 29-30 in 700 Clark Hall on Cornell University's campus. It is free and open to the public. "AIDS Symposium, 2002: Global Problem, Shared Responsibility" begins Friday at 7 p.m. with the talk by King, who also is U.N. assistant secretary-general. The event's key sponsors are Cornell's Institute for African Development, Latin American Studies Program and South Asia Program. The symposium follows a Cornell conference March 28-29 on a related topic, women's need for access to higher education in Africa. (March 25, 2002)
Forget fashion forecasts - the Class of 2009 knows its color of choice for the next four years. As they donned their white coats Aug. 24, they officially assumed the mantle of the medical student.
Syphilis. Race. Doctors objectifying their patients. David Feldshuh, a physician and Cornell theatre professor discussed these themes Sept. 19 at a weekly meeting of the Bioethics Society of Cornell.
The new name - the Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Division of Cardiology at Weill Cornell Medical College - became effective on Dec. 1, 2003. The official dedication ceremony took place on Feb. 2.
With help from Cornell planners, residents of New Orleans' 9th Ward have been given a significant voice in how their community should be rebuilt following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. (Jan. 30, 2007)
Geoffrey Coates, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell, has been selected by 'Technology Review' magazine as one of 100 young innovators under the age of 35.
Historians from around the nation will visit Cornell in March for Women's History Month to speak on subjects ranging from single motherhood to women in American theater.