NEW YORK (May 18, 2005) -- Three New York City biomedical research institutions -- The Rockefeller University, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) -- will receive $50 million over three years from The Starr Foundation to develop new resources and expertise in stem cell research.
Weill Cornell Medicine conferred degrees on 139 medical doctors, 62 Ph.D.s, 34 physician assistants and 23 with Master of Science degrees at Carnegie Hall May 25.
Imagine a version of Google Street View where you could hit the rewind button and see any point in time over the last five years. Cornell researchers are building something like that, at least for a few much-photographed places, such as 5Pointz in Queens, left.
Event this week include the annual Vet College Open House, a series of Spanish-language "city films," Southeast Asian Language Week, a debate on free speech and the return of the Farmers' Market at Cornell.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences honored seven of its alumni at the Outstanding Alumni Awards ceremony at the Statler Hotel Nov. 4. (Nov. 21, 2011)
Drug policy reform advocate and former Princeton University professor Ethan Nadelmann will present a University Lecture titled "Building a Political Movement to End the War on Drugs," Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in 165 McGraw Hall on the Cornell University campus. The talk is free and open to the public. Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Drug Policy Alliance, based in New York City, is widely regarded as one of the outstanding proponents of drug policy reform, both in the United States and abroad. The Drug Policy Alliance works to broaden the public debate on drug policy and to promote realistic alternatives to the war on drugs. (September 30, 2003)
Wimer worked in Cornell's Office of Publications and Marketing from 1978 until her retirement in 2007. She died at Cayuga Medical Center Jan. 22 after a long bout with cancer. (Jan. 27, 2009)
Mosaic@Atlanta, a conference of Asian-American, African-American, Hispanic and Native American Cornell alumni, faculty, students and staff, will take place Sept. 28 in Atlanta. (Sept. 18, 2007)
About 170 women small-business owners, including those who are members of minority groups, got help April 21 at a special Cornell-sponsored workshop, "Rebuilding New York City: What Every Minority/Woman-Owned Business Should Know." The event took place at the Cornell Conference Center in Manhattan and received excellent reviews from the participants, reported IWW Director Francine Moccio.