Dr. Jean W. Pape, an internationally recognized infectious disease expert and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, has received France's highest distinction, the Legion d'Honneur, for his more-than-two-decades of work fighting disease in his native Haiti.
Researchers describe how brain cells process antidepressants, cocaine and amphetamines. The findings could lead to more targeted medications for psychiatric diseases and addiction. (Sept. 17, 2008)
The Executive Committee of Cornell's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will hold its first meetings of 2003 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 23 through 25.
Cornell's first greenhouse gas inventory reveals that the university expects to reduce its central utilities emissions by almost one-third by 2010 -- far exceeding its goal of being 7 percent below 1990 carbon emission levels by 2012. (Sept. 16, 2008)
Ithaca Police reported that several Cornell students were victims of verbal racial and homophobic slurs, as well as physical harassment in Collegetown by a person not associated with the university. (Aug. 20, 2012)
Sound engineer for highly successful recording artists Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton spoke Feb. 1 at the STEM Men of Color “Access to Knowledge and Empowerment” Symposium.
NEW YORK (Feb. 2, 2005) -- The Center of Excellence for Lymphoma and Myeloma at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is the only medical center in the nation to currently offer a chemotherapy cocktail with the next-generation immuno-modulatory research drug Revlimid (lenalidomide), as part of a clinical trial for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. Results of the single-center Phase II clinical trial are anticipated to show improved complete remission rate and response time, and decreased toxicity -- compared to the standard treatment.
John W. Bluford III, former president of Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, share lessons in the hospital's efforts to transform health though close community engagement.