Revisiting a hallowed ritual for doctors, a committee within the Weill Cornell Medical College convened this spring to craft an updated Hippocratic Oath, one that responds to the state of modern medicine. Written in ancient Greece, the oath expresses principles still fundamental to the practice of medicine today. (June 22, 2005)
With proper training, experts say, supervisors, union representatives or co-workers can help a victim of domestic violence while meeting the employer's responsibility to maintain a safe worksite. (Oct. 29, 2009)
On Aug. 21, at 3:30 p.m., more than 3,500 first-year and transfer students are scheduled to gather in Barton Hall for an interactive faculty presentation on Chinua Achebe's masterpiece 'Things Fall Apart.'
Events this week include a dance festival and hip-hop symposium at the Schwartz Center, Cornell Cinema's Elegant Winter Party, a Messenger Lecture by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña and Dragon Day.
Brightly glowing nanoparticles known as 'Cornell dots' are a safe, effective way to 'light up' cancerous tumors so surgeons can find and remove them. (Feb. 18, 2009)
The Alumni Playwrights Reunion Weekend at the Schwartz Center will welcome back five accomplished Cornellians and will feature readings of their work, a roundtable discussion and a new play.
Ron Blackwell, director of corporate affairs at the AFL-CIO, is this year's pre-Labor Day speaker at Cornell University Thursday, Aug. 29. The labor leader is also a former economist and academic dean at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Blackwell's public lecture is titled "No More Business as Usual: A Union Perspective on Corporate Accountability." It will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in 105 Ives Hall on Cornell's campus. The talk, which is sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), is free and open to the public. (August 20, 2002)
Weill Cornell researchers report almost half of Caucasians taking statins are probably not protected against cancer as well as other people because of a particular inherited gene variant. (April 26, 2010)
Events on campus this week include animator Lewis Klahr, African musician Tony Bird, 'The Vagina Monologues' at Bailey Hall and Pancho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band in the Cornell Concert Series.
Carrie E. Davenport, J.D. '05, Cornell Law School, is the recipient of the 2005 Edward L. Dubroff Award from the American Immigration Law Foundation for her paper 'A 'Brutal Need': How Application of Expedited Removal to Potential Refugees Violates the Fifth Amendment.'