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Joan and Sanford Weill, Dean Antonio Gotto (left), and Cornell President Hunter Rawlings (center) with the portrait presented at the reception. The portrait has been hung in the Medical College lobby at 1300 York Ave. A portrait honoring Joan...

In the second week of the Medical Center's response to the World Trade Center disaster, Weill Cornell faculty were interviewed by the following media. Dr. Robert Allan (psychology in medicine) was interviewed by Crain's New York Business about the...

Francoise Freyre Francoise Freyre, formerly director of student affairs for the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, has been named assistant dean of the Graduate School. "I am delighted to make this appointment, which formalizes the many academic...

Dr. Paul Talalay Dr. Paul Talalay, the John Jacob Abel Distinguished Service Professor of Pharmacology, director of the Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, and founder of the Brassica Chemoprevention Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will be the...

Dr. M. Flint Beal, chairman of the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience and principal investigator for the department's new Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center, explains some of the scientific work to be conducted in the center to Henry Arnhold (right)...

His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah Al-Thani visits a patient in the Burn Center who suffered serious burns in the attack on the World Trade Center. With the Emir are (from left) Dr. Herbert Pardes, president of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital;...

Condemns Terrorism, Donates One Million Dollars New York, NY (October 1, 2001) — Reaffirming a unique example of international cooperation between an American medical school and a Middle Eastern country, His Highness the Emir of the State of Qatar visited...

Third Edition of a Popular Guide The Latest Scientific Breakthroughs and Techniques, with a Directory of Fertility Specialists New York, NY (October 2001) — One in six American couples of childbearing age has difficulty conceiving — despite the fact that...

Dr. Roger Yurt, director of the Burn Center, talks to NBC Nightly News correspondent Bob Bazell, about the treatment of patients who suffered serious burns at the World Trade Center disaster. During the World Trade Center emergency, Weill Cornell...

The Medical College organized a special panel discussion on Sept. 20 for Weill Cornell students to give them an opportunity to express their thoughts and questions about the many implications of the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center....

Dr. Joseph Fins, associate professor of medicine and public health and director of medical ethics at NewYork Weill Cornell, wrote these poems reflecting his thoughts on the disaster. The inspiration for "Mosaics and Misery" was the expectant waiting of...

Some of the Finance Department staff who worked in temporary space in the Whitney Pavilion Research Laboratories while their offices at 100 Broadway, near "ground zero," remained closed: (from left) Kevin McGrath, Richard Weisenmuller, Marie Thompson, Edward Walsh, Lorenzo...

Dr. Gabriele Barthlen (neurology) was interviewed about sleep disorders for the journal Economics of Neuroscience. Dr. Andrew Dannenberg (medicine) was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education about the ability of natural substances to block the cancer-causing COX-2 gene....

Weill Cornell's newly renovated lobby entrance at 69th Street and York Avenue opened on Tuesday, Sept. 4, as faculty, students and staff returned from the Labor Day weekend. A new service in the lobby is an Information Desk adjacent...

Richard Kogan, pianist and clinical instructor in psychiatry. Weill Cornell's Humanities and Medicine Series (2001-2002) continues on Wednesday, Sept. 12, with a lecture/performance on "Music and Illness (Beethoven, Schumann and Gershwin)" by pianist (and Weill Cornell psychiatrist) Dr. Richard...

Dr. Kathleen Foley, keynote speaker at the White Coat Ceremony. The highlight of the White Coat Ceremony: faculty help the new first-year medical students put on their new white coats. At the fifth annual White Coat Ceremony, which preceded...