A survey of doctors on both sides of the border finds physicians in Ontario, Canada, spend almost $60,000 less per year on interacting with insurers. (Aug. 4, 2011)
An interdisciplinary team of Ithaca and Weill Cornell researchers have created an artificial implant to replace intervertebral discs in the spinal column. (Aug. 1, 2011)
Cornell President David Skorton congratulates the staff and academic leadership of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for its sixth-place ranking in the U.S. News and World Report 'America's Best Hospitals' survey.
Irene H.S. So '61 was the honoree at the 21st annual CAAA Banquet Jan. 21 at Grand Harmony Palace in Manhattan. Also at the event, artist Kwong Lum donated one of his works as a gift to Cornell. (Jan. 23, 2012)
A day after appearing in Washington, D.C., to be announced as the next secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in July 2015, President David Skorton was back on campus discussing his priorities at Cornell.
Aiming to help resolve economic development, community health and other local issues, the Community Development Society, a national organization for community development professionals, will hold its 35th annual conference at Cornell University, July 20-23. The conference will feature a July 21 keynote address by the Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City and president of The College at Old Westbury, Long Island. Butts will speak at 9 a.m. in the David L. Call Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. (June 30, 2003)
Alan S. Paau of the University of California-San Diego has been named vice provost for technology transfer and economic development at Cornell and executive director of the Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise and Commercialization.
A new study traces hypertension to a newfound cellular source in the brain and shows that treatments targeting this area can reverse the disease. (Dec. 17, 2012)