The steroid dexamethasone could potentially deter the growth of a prostate cancer subtype previously thought to be difficult to treat with medications.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
Arrangements have been made to celebrate the life of George Desdunes, including a campus service March 2 in Sage Chapel. Also, a bus has been arranged to transport students to the wake March 3 in Brooklyn. (March 1, 2011)
Sarah Murray received the Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, and Linda Nicholson received the Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award May 28.
The Summer Startup Incubator Program from Life Changing Labs, supported in part by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, plans to serve six to eight teams this summer. Applications are due April 10.
NPR host, journalist, and race-relations expert Michele Norris, author of the best-selling "The Grace of Silence," will give the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 4.
The annual Cornellians Aiding and Responding to Emergencies (CARE) Fund online auction raised $8,000 in November. Gifts to the fund are accepted year-round. (Dec. 3, 2012)
Cornell will host a conference showcasing cutting-edge research in computational social science with alumni and other noted scholars in the discipline Sept. 11-12 with alumni and industry speakers.
Over winter break in January, 14 Cornell Tradition undergraduates traded creature comforts for work gloves to help clean up homes in Puerto Rico, which is still reeling nearly five months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.