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A new class of physician assistant students received their short white coats at the annual White Coat Ceremony on March 9.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of March 27 - April 3.

Researchers have found that a genetic variation found in 20 percent of Americans alters the emotional processing of anxiety and fear in the brain.

Weill Cornell Medical College's state-of-the-art Belfer Research Building has achieved LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for its sustainable design and green construction.

In a major advance in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis, GHESKIO, has opened a state-of-the-art hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to treat patients suffering from the disease.

Dr. Huda Zoghbi, a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience, and Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has been awarded the Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D. Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology.

Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi wins the Castle Connolly 2015 National Physician of the Year Award for Clinical Excellence and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of March 20 - March 27.

Dr. Lewis C. Cantley has won the 2015 Canada Gairdner International Award from the Gairdner Foundation for his groundbreaking discovery of a family of enzymes that are fundamental to understanding cancer.

The M.D. and M.D.-Ph.D. students in Weill Cornell's Class of 2015 learned where they will be doing their residency training -- the next three to seven years of their medical careers -- during national Match Day on March 20.

Weill Cornell's Music and Medicine Initiative made its debut at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Julliard on March 10 for its spring concert.

Dr. Antonio M. Gotto, Jr. wins the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award and Dr. Cam Patterson receives the 2015 Distinguished Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology, and other awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of March 13 - March 20.

Medical students from Weill Cornell Medical College presented their original research to peers, faculty and volunteer judges during Medical Student Research Day on March 6.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of March 6 - March 13.

Sixty participants from 14 universities and six countries gathered at Weill Cornell Medical College's Belfer Research Building on Feb. 2 for the first ever Weill Cornell Women in Global Health Symposium.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of Classical Hodgkin lymphoma, illuminating exactly which proteins are altered in individual patients

Dr. Jim Hu has been recruited as the Ronald Lynch Chair of Urologic Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College and appointed director of the LeFrak Center for Robotic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Feb. 27 - March 6.

Nobel laureate Harold Varmus joins Weill Cornell Medical College to advance cancer research.

Dr. Silvia C. Formenti Appointed Chair of Radiation Oncology at WCMC and Radiation Oncologist-in-Chief at NYP/WCMC

Researchers have improved a non-surgical procedure that painlessly and effectively corrects newborn ear deformities in just two weeks.