A new video series depicts the history and future of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program for the program's 40th anniversary. (March 23, 2010)
For her extensive contributions to the field of maternal-child nutrition, Kathleen Rasmussen, professor of nutritional sciences, won the March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award. (Nov. 1, 2012)
Cornell scientists led by Patrick Stover have reported that they have identified a gene that causes neural tube defects (spina bifada and anencephaly) in laboratory mice. (March 15, 2011)
Weill Cornell Medical College students learned where they will do their residency training – the next three to seven years of their medical careers – during national Match Day, March 20.
The Music and Medicine Initiative, a partnership between the Juilliard School and Weill Cornell, gives medical students the chance to continue their musical lives. The spring concert was held March 10 at Lincoln Center.
Ten nutrition experts from five Tanzanian institutions spent two weeks on campus Oct. 19-30 with Cornell nutrition faculty members and researchers to improve live-saving nutrition interventions and education in Tanzania.
From the sun, a solution: Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have remodeled an energy intensive medical test – designed to detect a deadly skin cancer related to HIV infections – to create an quick diagnostic assay perfect for remote regions of the world.
Two Cornell graduate students have won awards that total $250,000 - one for instant, accurate testing of sore throats and another for a portable, low-power ultrasound device that promotes healing. (July 12, 2010)
Richard Daines, M.D. '78, former health commissioner and a leader in the battle against childhood obesity, died unexpectedly Feb. 26 at his home in Stanfordville, N.Y. He was 60. (Feb. 28, 2011)