Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings announced today a series of administrative changes designed to strengthen the primacy of the academic mission of the university and streamline its central reporting structures.
New York, NY (February 13, 2003) -- A team headed by a Weill Cornell Medical College scientist has shown that a virus-inhibiting antibody applied vaginally as a topical microbicide can prevent SHIV infection in a monkey model. A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study provides evidence that microbicides can prevent virus attachment and entry into the vagina and its associated tissues, a useful step in the development of an effective method to prevent the spread of HIV.Published in the March issue of Nature Medicine, the study shows that monkeys treated with a monoclonal antibody microbicide, called b12, were significantly less likely to be infected with SHIV (an engineered simian-human version of human HIV) via the vaginal route than untreated monkeys exposed to the virus (25 percent versus 92 percent). Additionally, a greater dosage of b12, in gel or saline form, resulted in a greater ability to block infection.
NEW YORK (September 30, 2005) -- A research study by a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center neurosurgeon demonstrates that surgeons who use an endoscope to biopsy or resect intraventricular brain tumors in patients without hydrocephalus achieve equal if not better results.
More than 100 students gathered in small groups Sept. 12 to talk with ILR graduates, who gave such advice as take jobs abroad, learn languages and build relationships. (Oct. 3, 2008)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees has approved a recommendation to create e-Cornell, a legally separate but Cornell-controlled for-profit company to create and market distance learning programs.
Best-selling novelist and astrophysicist Alan Lightman read from two of his books during a Feb. 20-21 visit to campus. His works straddle the arts and sciences. (March 2, 2011)
Editing our own Facebook walls appears to boost self-esteem in college students, finds a new Cornell study by social media researchers. (March 1, 2011)
Following the media uproar over a scientist in Illinois who says he will try to begin human cloning soon, a Cornell professor participated in an Internet discussion Wednesday (Jan. 7) to debunk and denounce the effort.