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.
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)
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)
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.
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)
Physician, researcher and Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar interim dean Javaid I. Sheikh has been appointed dean of the college, effective Jan. 1.
The award cites Webb for 'pioneering the applications of rigorous physical principles to the development of optical tools that have broadly impacted our ability to examine biological systems.'
A Weill Cornell Medical College research team surveyed nearly 350 LGBT doctors, nurses and other health care professionals and trainees to better understand the support they receive and the obstacles they face in academia.