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Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Aug. 30 - Sept. 6.

Weill Cornell's 17th annual White Coat Ceremony on Tuesday marked a new chapter for each of the 103 students who comprise this year's incoming class. It served as a celebration of years of diligence, aspiration and preparation that led them down the steps of Uris Auditorium, where Weill Cornell faculty helped students don their short white coats as proud family and friends looked on.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Aug. 23 - Aug. 30.

Less than two years after transforming the medical student learning model from printed course notes and texts to iPads as part of curriculum reform, Weill Cornell has expanded its digital initiative to gross anatomy by purchasing 27 iPads -- one for each of the 26 dissection tables stationed in the lab and one for the faculty member running the day's session.

Requirements of the health reform law are pressuring small physician practices to use information technology and new ways of delivering care to improve patients' wellbeing. Yet only a quarter of small- and medium-sized physician groups partner with organizations that share technology and care-management programs that make these otherwise unaffordable resources available to them, according to new research by Weill Cornell Medical College scientists.

Pregnant women who don't make enough thyroid hormone are nearly four times likelier to have autistic children than healthy women, report scientists from the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College and Erasmus Medical Centre in the journal Annals of Neurology.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Aug. 16 - Aug. 23.

Patients with an aggressive lymphoma that often relapses and kills within two years experienced a remission of their cancer and stayed disease-free as long as 28 months after taking a commercially-available drug that made chemotherapy more effective.

A roundup of new research from Weill Cornell's physicians and scientists. In this installment, a new mouse model from Dr. Lorraine Gudas and Dr. David Nanus inspires new insights on human clear cell renal cancer.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Aug. 9 - Aug. 16.

Initiatives to improve health care increasingly link physician payment to quality of care. But studies so far have shown mixed findings about whether or not these "pay-for-performance" programs actually improve care.

Patients like it and so do health organizations, but electronic communications in clinical care will likely not be widely adopted by primary care physicians unless physician workloads are reduced or they are paid for the time they spend phoning and emailing patients, both during and after office hours.

A roundup of new research from Weill Cornell's physicians and scientists. In this installment, a study from Dr. Michel Kahaleh on the safety and efficacy of a modified diagnostic and therapeutic technique for pregnant women with gall stones, strictures or other conditions of the biliary or pancreatic ductal systems, and a study from Dr. Madelon Finkel about the use of anthocyanin-rich purple corn extract in lowering high blood pressure.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of July 26 - Aug. 2.

The enormous promise of regenerative medicine is matched by equally enormous challenges. But a new finding by a team of researchers led by Weill Cornell Medical College has the potential to improve both the safety and performance of reprogrammed cells.

Researchers have discovered how an experimental drug is capable of completely eradicating human lymphoma in mice after just five doses. The study, led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, sets the stage for testing the drug in clinical trials of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the most common subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, itself the seventh most frequently diagnosed cancer in the U.S.

Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher speaks with Dr. Christopher Mason, an assistant professor of physiology and biophysics and assistant professor of computational genomics. Dr. Mason recently celebrated a victory, testifying before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of genetic liberty.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of July 19 - July 26.

While significant advances have been made in HIV treatment, experts say one of the obstacles still facing many HIV-positive patients is adherence to a daily regimen of medication. That may soon change. A new smart pill bottle slated for clinical trial at Weill Cornell Medical College this fall has the promise to significantly dismantle -- perhaps even tear down -- that health care barrier.

This month, Qatari high school students embarked on a journey of exploration as the winners of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar's annual Healing Hands essay contest. Their prize: a two-week, all-expenses paid trip to Weill Cornell Medical College in New York to learn the ins and outs of the medical profession.