NEW YORK -- Last fall two students at Weill Cornell Medical College -- Brant W. Ullery '08 and Avnish Deobhakta '08 -- founded the Medical Students for the Advancement of Transplantation (MSAT) to raise awareness about organ donation for medical students and the public alike, and to build a support system among organ donors and recipients. At the inaugural meeting May 5, the students invited Rob Kochik, clinical director of the New York Organ Donor Network, to describe scenarios in which organ donation could save a life.
Students at the Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences received their first taste of professional life at the Vincent du Vigneaud Symposium, May 3, 2005. Every year since 1981, the symposium has devoted a day for students to present their research in front of colleagues and faculty. The symposium honors the Nobel laureate and head of the Department of Biochemistry at the medical college from 1938 to 1967.
Paul Leon Hartman, a pioneering researcher and Cornell professor emeritus recognized by his colleagues for his grace and humility, died at his home at Kendal at Ithaca on May 20. He was 91. Hartman was one of the first to investigate the use of X-rays generated as a byproduct of high-energy electron accelerators.
NEW YORK (May 23, 2005) -- A biochemical partnership between two novel compounds called cell-cycle inhibitors is crucial to the development of blood vessels that help tumors survive and thrive, according to a collaborative Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.When researchers transplanted tumors into mice genetically engineered to lack two of these inhibitors, those tumors failed to develop much-needed vasculature -- a process called angiogenesis.
At 99, Robert Halgrim had one remaining wish -- to be honored by Cornell University. In 1927, his mentor and employer, Thomas Edison, arranged for him to attend the university's College of Agriculture where Halgrim studied horticulture. But two years into his degree, Edison requested that he return to Florida to tutor the great inventor's grandchildren. And Halgrim never returned to Cornell.
Pursuing a quality education is more than a personal responsibility; it is an individual right. On June 7, educators from around central New York will be meeting at Ithaca High School to explore this concept during the second Community Forum on Education and Society. The featured speaker will be Robert Moses, a renowned educator and civil rights activist. His talk is free and open to the public.
Cornell University's Formula SAE race car team won its ninth world championship May 22 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich. Cornell has won the competition three years out of the last four. It was the 19th year that a Cornell team has entered.
For the first time in 30 years, Cornell Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will exhibit parts of the university's extensive collection of James Joyce letters, manuscripts and books, considered the richest in the world on the Irish writer's early life and career. The exhibit, "From Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell's James Joyce Collection," will be on view from Thursday, June 9, through Oct. 12 in the Hirshland Exhibition Gallery of the Carl A. Kroch Library.
When Anisa Draboo receives her master's degree in International Development from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning on May 29, she will be the first Cornell University graduate among a new group of dedicated international students studying ways to make the most troubled areas of the world more livable. The students in the group know some of the world's worst problems firsthand -- and they have an extra dose of motivation to find the solutions.
James Houck, Cornell's Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy, has been awarded NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for leading the successful development of the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph. The spectrograph, the largest of the three instruments on the orbiting space telescope, has been providing scientists with a new perspective since the observatory's launch in August 2003.