Cornell Chronicle

The ACT for Youth Center for Community Action, based on Cornell's Ithaca campus, has been awarded a five-year, $5 million grant from the NYS Department of Health that will expand the center’s impact on children and adolescents with special health care needs, in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine.

An interdisciplinary Cornell research team has developed a new surgical technique that blocks the spread of focal epileptic seizures in the brain.

One in six residents of assisted living facilities is subject to verbal, physical or other aggression by fellow residents in a typical month, and those suffering from dementia are most at risk, according to investigators at Cornell’s Ithaca campus and at Weill Cornell Medicine, in the first large-scale study of the phenomenon.

Dr. Timothy Ryan, tri-institutional professor of biochemistry and professor of biochemistry in anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with two faculty members from Cornell University in Ithaca.

The university has announced a realignment within the Office of the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer designed to improve long-term financial oversight and cross-campus coordination between Ithaca and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.

Through increased collaboration between Cornell Health and Weill Cornell Medicine, this spring two new partnerships will enhance and expand services to the Ithaca campus community to better meet the needs of Cornell students.

A new center at Cornell will fight the rise of antibiotic resistance, a global health challenge that threatens to reverse critical advances in modern medicine.

The Office of Academic Integration has announced 14 new Multi-Investigator Seed Grants to foster multidisciplinary collaborations between Cornell’s Ithaca and New York City campuses.

Dr. Curtis L. Cole, M.D. ’94 has been appointed the university’s inaugural vice president and chief global information officer.

A $20 million gift from Andrew H. ’71 and Ann R. Tisch will foster engagement and collaboration between Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine, catalyzing new discoveries at the intersection of health and technology.

More than 70 faculty from Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Engineering and Cornell Tech assembled Oct. 1 in Ithaca — and more joined remotely — to kick off the Cornell Engineering Innovations in Medicine initiative.

Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Engineering are launching Engineering Innovations in Medicine, an initiative that will form unconventional partnerships that transcend academic disciplines to find solutions for such diseases as Alzheimer’s, cancer and diabetes.

Dr. Yifan Peng, assistant professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, is among six Cornell faculty members who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

A portable diagnostic device designed by researchers at Cornell Engineering and Weill Cornell Medicine has been deployed in clinical tests in Uganda to identify cases of Kaposi sarcoma, a common yet difficult-to-detect cancer that often signals the presence of HIV infection.

A multidisciplinary research program launched by Weill Cornell Medicine, the ILR School and Cornell Tech aims to elevate the value of home care workers while improving both their working conditions and their patients’ outcomes. 

Dr. Jean William Pape, M.D. ’75 and Cornell President Martha E. Pollack have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 28.

Though the COVID-19 pandemic has stymied travel and business-as-usual for many, Cornell’s Office of Academic Integration – which fosters collaborations across disciplines and between the Ithaca and New York City campuses – has thrived.

Paid home care workers are helping patients manage chronic conditions and promoting general and mental health – going well beyond the personal care contributions for which they have been historically associated, according to new Cornell research.

Visiting the College of Veterinary Medicine on Jan. 7, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said the nation should establish a network of academic medical centers focused on fighting and preventing pandemics – a proposal informed by Cornell medical and public health experts.

Three recent cross-campus collaborations sparked by efforts from the Office of Academic Integration have received a total of $33 million in federal grants to solve problems at the root of human disease.