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Five Weill Cornell PhD students received Honorable Mentions in the 2016 NSF GRFP competition

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced the 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition results. Five Weill Cornell PhD students received honorable mentions. The five students are:

Emma Garst (Tri-I Chemical Biology), Jonghan Lee (Tri-I Chemical Biology), Gail Leicher (Tri-I Chemical Biology), Hillary Raab (neurosciences), and Angela Yu (Tri-I Computational Biology and Medicine).

Congratulations to Emma, Jonghan, Gail, Hillary, and...

Two WCGS students win the FY 2015 Department of Defense (DOD) Award

Weill Cornell Graduate students Wan-Ying Hsieh and Aaron Yu-Yuan Chang won the FY 15 Department of Defense (DOD) Horizon Award! The Horizon Award supports junior-level scientists under the mentorship of experienced cancer researchers with a $75,000 grant.

Wan-Ying Hsieh

Wan-Ying is a 4th year Pharmacology student working in the lab of Dr. Ingo Mellinghoff at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her winning proposal is “Characterization of Ran Binding...

Interim Dean announced to lead Weill Cornell Medicine beginning June 1

The Cornell University Board of Trustees and the Weill Cornell Medicine Board of Overseers have approved the appointment of physician-scientist Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Sanford I. Weill Chairman of the Weill Department of Medicine, as interim dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and interim provost for medical affairs of Cornell University, starting June 1.

Choi will succeed Dr. Laurie Glimcher, who announced in February she would be leaving Weill Cornell to lead the Dana-Farber...

36th Annual du Vignuead Research Symposium

This Thursday, Weill Cornell Graduate School will host the 36th Annual du Vigneaud Research Symposium, a rich academic tradition in honor of the late Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud, who was the recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Students and faculty from across the Weill Cornell community will partake in various events, including poster sessions and oral presentations from a wide range of scientific fields. The symposium pays homage to du Vigneaud's passion and contributions to science...

Student Disability Services Seminar with Katherine Fahey - 4/22/16

The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, and the Celebrating Diversity in Science Series invite you to the following seminar:

Inclusion: “Open Hearts, Open Minds, Accessible Doors?”

Katherine Fahey
Director, Student Disability Services
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

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Startups, IP and Tech Commercialization

The Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) at Cornell University will be hosting back-to-back events at Weill Cornell Medicine!

Seminar & Social Hour event

When: Tuesday, April 19 – 5:00-7:30PM

Where: Belfer Research Building, Sixth Floor Lounge
Weill Cornell Medicine

413 E. 69th Street, NYC

When: 5:00-7:30PM

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Tri-Institutional Career Symposium

April 7th at Rockefeller University

For this all-day event, we have organized a superb group of expert speakers and guests who will provide invaluable insights and practical advice on career preparations and opportunities for scientists (see full schedule and registration). We encourage you to attend as much of the day as possible (there's something for everyone). Please note that the networking reception has over 30 professionals from a wide range of careers, which is not to be missed...

Tri-Institutional Professional Skills Development Workshop

Tuesday April 5, 2016 from 3:30 - 5:00 pm in Caspary Auditorium, Rockefeller

The Tri-I (Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering & The Rockefeller University) is hosting a professional skills development workshop, "Distilling Your Message", for participants to learn how to speak clearly and vividly about their work and why it matters, in terms non-scientists can understand. This Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science workshop is a "must" for all scientists. The ability...

NY Graduate Student Symposium on Cancer and Cell Biology

The Second Annual New York Graduate Student Symposium on Cancer and Cell Biology was hosted by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Rockefeller University, last Thursday, March 24th. The three host institutions welcomed students from the New York University School of Medicine, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Columbia University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Rutgers, and the CUNY Graduate Center. This...

Tri-Institutional Minority Society (TIMS) Spring Workshop Promotes Professional Development

On March 16 2016, the Tri Institutional Minority Society (TIMS) hosted a digital branding workshop for more than 70 faculty, postdocs, students, research assistants and administrators in the Zuckerman Building of Memorial Sloan Kettering. Dr. Tom Magaldi, Office of Career and Professional Development Administrator at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Swarna Kuruganti, Founder/CEO of WellWatch were featured presenters. Following the workshop, professional headshots were taken by photographers...