NEW YORK -- Last fall two students at Weill Cornell Medical College -- Brant W. Ullery '08 and Avnish Deobhakta '08 -- founded the Medical Students for the Advancement of Transplantation (MSAT) to raise awareness about organ donation for medical students and the public alike, and to build a support system among organ donors and recipients. At the inaugural meeting May 5, the students invited Rob Kochik, clinical director of the New York Organ Donor Network, to describe scenarios in which organ donation could save a life.
A seemingly simple, sturdy, wood-veneer chair has become an online video hit. With its 'brain' in its seat, the chair collapses into a disheveled, disconnected heap; its legs then slowly find each corner of the base, connect back together and eventually, the chair stands upright.
Neal Freeman '97 directs the award-winning play about Vincent Van Gogh, 'Vincent in Brixton,' at Cornell's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Feb. 1-5, 8-11.
Francisco Valero-Cuevas, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, has been awarded a $239,992 research grant by the Whitaker Foundation to study the human thumb.
A symposium Sept. 14 and 15 on campus will honor John W. Reps, Cornell professor emeritus in the Department of City and Regional Planning, as he approaches his 80th birthday.
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Following inauguration rehearsal on Sept. 6, Vice Presidents Tommy Bruce, left, and Mary Opperman, inauguration committee co-chairs, pose with M.J. Herson '68 and President David Skorton. Herson…
Cornell Cooperative Extension will present Ralph L. Snodsmith, president of R.L. Snodsmith Ornamental Horticulturist Inc. and a radio and television personality, with the 1998 Friend of Cornell Cooperative Extension Award at a celebratory reception Monday, Oct. 5.
Leading South African trade unionist Tony Ehrenreich is the keynote speaker at Union Days 2005. "Unions in the Global Economy" is the overall theme of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations events, which take place April 6-8 in Ives Hall.
For the first time, scientists have shown how the activity of a gene associated with normal human development, as well as the occurrence of cancer and several other diseases, is repressed epigenetically – by modifying not the DNA code of a gene, but instead the spool-like histone proteins around which DNA tightly wraps itself in the nucleus of cells in the body.