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.
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.
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)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting of 2000 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 27 through Jan. 29.
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.
During year one of Cornell’s “Toward New Destinations” diversity framework, colleges and units have worked toward specific diversity goals, and are also identifying areas in need of improvement.
Cornell will recognize the generosity and vision of the Milstein family at a May 24 naming ceremony for Paul Milstein Hall, the planned expansion of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. (May 23, 2007)
The Executive Committee of Cornell's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets Dec. 10 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., New York City.
Cornell closed fiscal 2013 with a record-breaking $475 million in cash gifts to the “Cornell Now” campaign, including $278.1 million for the Ithaca campus, its highest ever in cash contributions.
Stephen H. Weiss '57, a presidential councilor and a board-elected member of the Cornell Board of Trustees for 24 years, including eight as chair, died on Wednesday, April 16, at age 72. (April 17, 2008)