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Last month, 7 students graduated from the Tri Institutional Minority Society Summer Scholars Research Program (TIMS SSRP) in a short ceremony followed by a poster session in Griffis Faculty Club at Weill Cornell.

An unprecedented effort supported collectively by Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell and the Sloan Kettering Office of Diversity, the goal of the TIMS SSRP is to increase minority recruitment and retention in the sciences. Specifically, the program provides cutting edge...

Growing up in Knoxville, Tennessee, Neel Madhukar always assumed he would become a physician. That’s what he told his high school teachers, and he pursued a premed track as an undergraduate at Emory University. But that plan shifted after his grandfather, to whom he had long been close, received a devastating diagnosis of liver cancer when Madhukar was a freshman. “There wasn’t that much they could do for it,” says Madhukar, now a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Weill Cornell ...

Dear Weill Cornell Medicine Community,

I am writing to inform you of several exciting leadership appointments at Weill Cornell Medicine that will keep us at the forefront of biomedical graduate education and research.