New York, NY (August 2001) -- Jay Edelberg, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiovascular researcher and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, has been named a 2001-2004 Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the Alliance for Aging Research. The prestigious honor includes an award of $450,000 to support his research into finding new approaches to reverse vascular changes in the aging heart.
During their three-week winter break tour, the Cornell Chorus and Glee Club traveled through Guatemala and Mexico, where they they filled churches, sang at orphanages and made a studio recording.
Rebecca Sparrow, director of career services for the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, has been named director of Cornell Career Services, Edna Dugan, assistant vice president for student and academic services, announced/
Michael Shuler, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell, has been named to lead a newly established program to integrate the life sciences into engineering education, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Provost Kent Fuchs announced Dec. 1 that the Africana Studies and Research Center will move to the College of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2011, as a precursor to the establishment of a Ph.D. program.
New York, NY (September 22, 2004) -- For patients with a dangerous enlargement of heart muscle called left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), the drug Losartan beats standard beta-blocker therapy in reducing hearts to a healthier size, according to researchers at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.The study, published in the September 14 issue of Circulation, finds that Losartan's effects on LVH go beyond its ability to lower blood pressure -- suggesting that added mechanisms may be at work.
Designed to develop tomorrow's leaders for the business world, the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellows Program at Cornell's Johnson School is celebrating its 10th anniversary. (Dec. 10, 2007)