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Assuming the mantle: White coat ceremony ushers medical students into lifetime at the bedside

Forget fashion forecasts - the Class of 2009 knows its color of choice for the next four years. As they donned their white coats Aug. 24, they officially assumed the mantle of the medical student.

Strategic goals offer Cornell's bold vision for 21st century in recruiting, student aid

In its newly published strategic plan, Cornell University is positioning itself as 'the exemplary, comprehensive research university' of the 21st century. (May 15, 2008)

Presidential Search Committee gets doctors' orders

Harvey Klein, the William S. Paley Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician to recent Cornell presidents, offered a prescription to the Cornell Presidential Search Subcommittee on Sept. 7.

Nominations sought for Perkins Prize at Cornell

Nominees for the 1997 Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony are now being accepted by the Dean of Students Office at Cornell.

Provost tackles 'the challenge and art' of charting the future

Michael I. Kotlikoff discusses his role as the university's chief academic officer, the strategic planning process he will lead for Cornell and how his experience as a dean has prepared him for this job.

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Alumna Leonie Brinkema won bravos for bringing order to Moussaoui trial courtroom

Leonie Brinkema, Cornell J.D. '76, recently made headlines as the judge in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, who on May 4 was convicted of being an accomplice in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and…

Corporate gift enables Cornell students to be first to produce custom-fitted clothing patterns generated by computers and body scans

Available soon: You step into a booth where a 3-D body scanner sends more than 300,000 data points from your body to a computer.

President Rawlings will speak at Cornell gay and lesbian town meeting

Cornell's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Resource Office will host a town meeting on Thursday, April 11, at 6 p.m. featuring an address by President Hunter Rawlings. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall and will include a seating section for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals who do not want to be photographed.

Betty Friedan's life, outside and inside Cornell, is celebrated by scholars and activists

Betty Friedan's life and Cornell connection celebrated. The occasion for these tributes was the celebration of Friedan's life, April 24 at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Sponsored by the Provost's Office, the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) program and the ILR School.

Stem cell research at Weill Cornell and partners receives $50 million boost from foundation

NEW YORK -- Weill Cornell Medical College, together with The Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will receive $50 million over three years from The Starr Foundation to develop new resources and expertise in stem cell research, helping to position the three institutions' scientists as leaders in this competitive new field.