After 20 years of leadership that transformed Weill Cornell Medical College into a global health care enterprise, Sanford I. Weill ’55 will retire as chair of the Board of Overseers Jan. 1. Jessica M. Bibliowicz ’81, a financial services entrepreneur who has served on the board for the past decade, will succeed him.
Global travel, climate warming and an invasive mosquito could create the right conditions for outbreaks of a new virus in this country, according to a Cornell computer model. (Dec. 17, 2012)
Authors and physicians weighed in on nutrition and women's health April 21 at the Iris Cantor Women's Health Center Annual Press Luncheon and Book-Signing event. (May 28, 2009)
Cornell, along with the rest of the Ivy League, will collaborate with the Big Ten athletic conference on research into the effects of head injuries in sports.
Veterinary epidemiologist Yrjo Grohn has a new grant to study the bug that is the leading cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitals, using what he's learned from studying pathogens in farm animals.
Teens in violent dating relationships are more than twice as likely to repeat such relationships in adulthood and face a greater risk of substance abuse and depression, suggests a new Cornell study. (Dec. 10, 2012)
A study found that casual sexual 'hookups' increased a teenager's odds for depression nearly threefold, but teen sex in a committed relationship had no effect on depression levels. (Dec. 4, 2012)
Cornell researchers have developed a quick, inexpensive way to detect rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea that kills a half million people a year, mostly infants and young children. (May 9, 2011)