NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has established the Cornell Institute of Robotic Urological Surgery within the Brady Department of Urology. Robotic prostate surgery for prostate cancer patients will be the centerpiece of the new program.
Ronald G. Crystal, M.D., professor of genetic medicine and director of the Institute for Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, will be the opening speaker at a day-long media workshop, "Cancer Biology: From Research to Recovery," in New York City, June 21.
The New York State 4-H Foundation, administered by Cornell Cooperative Extension, has awarded $18,000 in college scholarships to 15 outstanding members of the 4-H Youth Development program from across the state. The New York 4-H Opportunity Scholarship Program was announced last summer at the 2002 State Fair in Syracuse to celebrate the National Centennial of 4-H Youth Development. The foundation and its donors wanted to provide dedicated, hardworking youth with scholarships to pursue a collegiate education. (July 22, 2003)
More than 100 students, staff and senior administrators joined Professor Robin L. Davisson, Nov. 23, to surprise President David J. Skorton with wishes for a happy 60th birthday. (Nov. 24, 2009)
Susan E. Lynch, an active supporter of Cornell University, has established the Susan Eckert Lynch Professorship in Science and Business in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).
Ron Blackwell, director of corporate affairs at the AFL-CIO, is this year's pre-Labor Day speaker at Cornell University Thursday, Aug. 29. The labor leader is also a former economist and academic dean at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Blackwell's public lecture is titled "No More Business as Usual: A Union Perspective on Corporate Accountability." It will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in 105 Ives Hall on Cornell's campus. The talk, which is sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), is free and open to the public. (August 20, 2002)
Daniel Cohn-Bendit's Nov. 11 talk, "Quo vadis Europe: the Franco-German Dialogue in the European Community," is the advance keynote presentation for "Franco-German Relations and the New Europe," Nov. 19. (November 9, 2005)
Cornell Information Technologies has launched a campaign to spread 'digital literacy' - the ability to find, evaluate, utilize and create information using digital technology. (Dec. 14, 2009)