In Washington, D.C., students in the Sloan Program in Health Administration attended the Intersession Health Policy Symposium Jan. 19-20, including eight sessions on health administration and policy. (March 5, 2012)
Cornell's Department of Biomedical Engineering has received $700,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to help train Ph.D. students to work at the interface of engineering science and medicine. (Aug. 9, 2010)
Associate professor of animal science Dan Brown, Ph.D. ’81, has recommended ways to reduce contamination of peanuts, a staple crop in the developing world.
Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought. (Feb. 16, 2012)
A new method for looking at how proteins fold inside mammal cells could one day lead to better flu vaccines, among other practical applications, say Cornell researchers.
Experts gathered at Cornell Sept. 17 for a daylong symposium on “Food Security in a Vulnerable World,” at which suggestions were offered to G20 leaders in absentia.
Prabhu Pingali, former World Bank economist and deputy director of agricultural development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be spearheading a Cornell effort to help reduce poverty and malnutrition in India.
Cornell researchers have uncovered the basic cell biology that helps explain heart defects found in laminopathies, which account for up to 10 percent of all cases of inherited heart disease.
Weill Cornell Medical College announced Dec. 4 that it has received a $25 million gift from Gale and Ira Drukier to establish a cross-disciplinary institute dedicated to understanding the causes of diseases that are devastating to children.
A sort of 'mini-MOOC' - massive open online course - in infant and child nutrition has attracted almost 4,000 participants from more than 100 countries.