Doctoral student Meredith Ramirez Talusan, M.A. ’11, who studies comparative literature, serendipitously taught a Filipino woman how to knit. A year later she started a social enterprise that now employs 25 knitters in the Philippines.
Professors Holly Prigerson and Valerie Reyna have combined forces to study end-of-life communication between patients and their physicians and clinicians, with the goal of improved prognostic understanding and decision-making and, ultimately, better end-of-life decisions.
Mathematics professor John Hubbard discussed how closing roads and bridges helps speed up traffic in his April 30 talk, 'The Price of Anarchy,' as part of Math Awareness Month. (May 9, 2011)
Cornell and Columbia University libraries will collaboratively support Slavic and East European collection development at both institutions. (Sept. 16, 2010)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees recently elected four emeritus trustees and five presidential councillors in recognition of their distinguished service to the university. (Sept. 13, 2010)
NEW YORK -- An experimental drug targeted to a cancer-causing mechanism within the cell may be a powerful weapon against deadly multiple myeloma.
So concludes a team of researchers at the Weill Medical College of Cornell…
Patricia Ziegler, former lecturer of human development, died Feb. 23 at her home in Ithaca. A public memorial service will take place April 18 at 3 p.m. in 280 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. (March 26, 2009)
Under brilliant blue sky peppered with wispy clouds and comfortable temperatures, Cornell University graduated its 147th class May 24, sending about 6,000 accomplished women and men into the future.
The ILR School's Healthcare Transformation Project hosted a two-day conference Dec. 11-12 that offered people in the field workshops on improving health care quality. (Dec. 19, 2012)