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Getting high school students to stay inside on a warm, sunny afternoon to work on science might sound like an impossible task, but on Feb. 27 dozens of students from public high schools across New York City happily did just that.

A total of 90 teens participated in Big Red STEM Day, a Weill Cornell Medicine-led initiative designed to inspire high school students from communities underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to pursue STEM-related education...

The modern concept of general anesthesia dates back to the 1840s, when doctors and dentists began giving patients ether before operations. Until then, surgery—whether to pull a tooth, remove a tumor or even amputate a limb—had been a violent and painful business. A patient might have been dulled by alcohol or opium—or even knocked unconscious with a blow to the head—but in most cases a team of strongmen would have held him down as he screamed in agony. The ability to reliably render a...

In an age of overabundant and accessible information, when evidence-based research is devalued, how can scientists and journalists work in concert to rightfully inform the public of medical progress?

That was the focus of a presentation given by ABC News Medical Unit Managing Editor Dan Childs Oct. 18 during the inaugural event of a lecture series called “Science and Society” presented by the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

Childs emphasized the need for...

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...