A sizeable proportion of advanced cancer patients remain unaware of basic information about their illness or its treatment, researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine report.
Samples of the litter were collected from a New York City beach in the Rockaways for an aquatic ecology outreach demonstration by Cornell Cooperative Extension educators. (Oct. 22, 2007)
A team of Weill and Ithaca researchers has built a device that captures rare cancer cells from metastatic prostate cancer patients to test the effects of chemotherapy.
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.
Cornell has surpassed its 'Cornell Now' campaign goal, thanks to a record year of giving in 2014. Funds raised go toward the university’s top strategic priorities, including students, faculty, programs and facilities.
Botanical gardens and arboreta play many roles in local communities, stressed Donald Rakow, director of Cornell Plantations, in a talk at New York City's 92nd Street Y March 14. (March 20, 2012)
CU's newly released economic impact report finds that the university generated $3.317 billion statewide in fiscal year 2007, 8 percent more than in 2005, and again led universities in the state in research expenditures. (March 18, 2009)
The second "Histories of Capitalism" conference. Sept. 29 through Oct. 1 at Cornell, will explore nature, science and folklore, and how they relate to capitalism, and other topics.
Author Jon Gordon '93 will give the keynote at the annual '21 Dinner' Saturday, Jan. 29, which honors the late Cornell lacrosse star George Boiardi. Jeremy Schaap '91 will be master of ceremonies. (Jan. 10, 2011)