The graduation ceremony marked a milestone in American higher education, as Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City became the first U.S. medical school to grant its M.D. degree on foreign soil. (May 8, 2008)
Six Cornell University seniors, all women, went to New York City this past summer hoping to learn how to crack Wall Street's infamous glass ceiling — that invisible, impermeable surface their mothers merely scratched.
Weill Cornell Medical College held its 13th annual Medical Student Research Day, which provides a forum for students to share their original research with peers, faculty and volunteer judges.
Events on campus this week include two experimental works-in-progress at the Schwartz Center, some rock climbing, Asia Night, String Day and the International Women's Day Banquet.
Like many U.S. immigrants from China, Qian Ya Luo, a home-care aide in New York City, is literate in Chinese, with its thousands of characters, but is still learning English since coming to the United States several years ago.
Events on campus this week include a gender-reversed Gilbert and Sullivan play, Renaissance and compost fairs, and talks on building healthy housing and legal responses to catastrophic events.
Vaccines that train the immune system to seek out and destroy malignant cells are at the cutting edge of cancer treatment. Now, joint research – conducted by researchers at Weill Medical Cornell and at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Branch in New York – has pinpointed two proteins that seem ideal targets for a vaccine against multiple myeloma.
Fiction writers Lydia Peelle '00 and Rattawut Lapcharoensap '01 are winners of 2010 Whiting Writers' Awards, a prestigious $50,000 award given to up-and-coming writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. (Nov. 2, 2010)
Members of Cornell NYC Tech's inaugural class were all attracted to the program's startup feel, and they all wanted to take part in a trailblazing master's degree program.
A strategic conference of business executives and academic researchers in travel, tourism and hospitality will convene in New York City Thursday, March 7.