NEW YORK -- Shahin Rafii, an internationally acclaimed cancer and vascular biologist and stem cell authority at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC), has been named one of 43 new investigators by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The honor is bestowed annually on the nation's most promising and gifted biomedical scientists.
Biomedical engineering Ph.D. student George K. Lewis is making therapeutic ultrasound devices that are smaller, more powerful and many times less expensive than today's models. (Dec. 18, 2008)
Cornell students interview community members about inclusion and exclusion, racism and discrimination in Ithaca schools as part of 'Community Voices: Stories of Family, Culture and Education.' (May 6, 2008)
To address the technology and computer training needs of local nonprofits, the Cornell-Ithaca Partnership (C-IP) has partnered with United Way of Tompkins County and its 40 member organizations to form Computer Aid.
Cornell researcher Michael King shows that a tiny, implantable device can capture and kill cancer cells in the bloodstream before they spread through the body. (Dec. 10, 2008)
Internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman will be on campus to celebrate his 50th reunion at Cornell University this weekend. The winner of numerous architectural awards, Eisenman '54 earned his B.Arch. degree at Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. (June 10, 2004)
Steven Chu, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize for 'development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light,' delivered the 2008 Hans A. Bethe lecture at Cornell April 16.
The next great phase of research in the biological sciences is burgeoning at the crossroads where chemistry meets biology. To explore this cutting-edge interdisciplinary nexus, Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology will host a symposium.
The charter of Cornell University includes a remarkable statement: "And persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be equally eligible to all offices and appointments."