After its inaugural cycle in 2022-23,Cornell University’s Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship,formerly known as the BioEntrepreneurship Initiative,enters its second year with anew cohort of 15 business students and 12 researchers who are eager to embark on their journeys to becoming C-suite startup leaders.The Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship started as an effort to bridge the gap between Ph.D.and MBA students at Cornell,with an interest in getting life science innovations into the hands of customers.The program provides students with the entrepreneurial mindset,training,and judgement to aid them in developing ventures in the life sciences.The fellowship’s unique structure pairs doctoral researchers across Cornell’s campuses with graduate business students to collaborate on real-world startup design and testing.“Even after just one year of programming,the Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship is well on its way to creating apipeline of leaders that will advance the life sciences industry in New York state and globally,”said program director Gregory Ray,Ph.D.‘14.“We’re excited to continue building on last year’s success and providing acollaborative space where participants can think beyond the bounds of their respective programs.”When it was established as the BioEntrepreneurship Initiative in its first year,the program immediately gained traction.Over aseries of six monthly,in-person workshops that alternated location between Ithaca and New York City,participants interacted with more than 50 investors,founders,and industry leaders,gaining perspective to apply to their entrepreneurial endeavors.The success of the BioEntrepreneurship Initiative identified aframework that could easily be applied to other industries,inspiring the creation of the Green Technology Innovation Fellowship and prompting the name change to the Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship.Throughout the course of the year,business and research participants will be matched with one another to form teams and take part in workshops that will cover various topics to lay afoundation for startup creation.“I aspire to gain hands-on experience with strategy,implementation,and VC interaction regarding astartup,”said Eman Said,MBA‘24,a member of this year’s cohort.“I hope to hone my skills as an MBA in the life sciences and healthcare while expanding my network throughout the next year.” 查看详细>>

Cornell’s newest doctoral graduates have completed one significant milestone,but their journey as scholars is only beginning,President Martha E.Pollack said to nearly 350 candidates waiting to cross the stage and be recognized at the 2023 Ph.D.Recognition Ceremony on May 27 at Barton Hall.“This isn’t the first time you’ve stood in acap and gown,with an achievement behind you and new adventures ahead,”she said.“But today you receive the highest degree there is to earn in academia.Today you cross the line from students to scholars.”Kathryn J.Boor’80,dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education,handed each candidate acertificate as they walked across the stage,signifying the completion of this phase in their journeys.“Crossing that line doesn’t mean that there’s nothing left to learn;rather,it means all of you have made your own contribution to what there is to learn,”Pollack said.Provost Michael I.Kotlikoff encouraged graduates to thank the families and friends who offered support throughout their programs,and many of the new Ph.D.s wrote messages during the reception to do just that.As part of its Gratitude Project,the Graduate School offers participants blank postcards and invites them to write anote to someone who helped them on their academic journey,which the Graduate School then mails.“It has been alifelong dream to obtain aPh.D.,”said Jennifer Houtz,Ph.D.’23,a graduate from the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.“It is such asurreal experience to hit this milestone,especially with my adviser,lab mates and family in the audience.I could not have picked amore supportive and inclusive place to pursue my Ph.D.”Houtz credits Cornell with helping her become the scientist and teacher she is today.Backed by the encouragement of her advisers and mentors to pursue her passions for outreach and teaching,she will soon be aprofessor at aprimarily undergraduate institution–her dream job.“I’m grateful for Cornell for providing such achallenging but rewarding experience,”she said. 查看详细>>

On Feb.7,Cornell‘s Center for Advanced Computing(CAC)and Weill Cornell Medicine Scientific Computing,ITS,and Clinical and Translational Science Center will roll out the 2023 Scientific Computing Training Series.The Zoom-based training will be available for free to all workforce members and students of Cornell,WCM,WCM-Q,and Cornell Tech.Twelve training sessions will be offered during the winter/spring semesters:Data Management in Science Research RBasics Python for Scientific Computing and Data Science Python for Digital Humanities and Social Science Creating the Best Visualizations for your Data Revision Control with Git Python for Data Visualization Research Project Software Continuity Working with Excel Files in Python and C#Scripting ImageJ and PowerPoint with Python Using the Whole Processor Using Relational Databases for Research.Details are available here.“The CAC/WCM Scientific Computing Training Series is an excellent example of cross-campus collaboration,”said Curtis L.Cole,vice president and chief global information officer.“Sharing expertise across campuses enhances learning and research capabilities for Cornell students,faculty,and staff.”“Our fall series was areal success;457 Cornellians participated in 5sessions,”said Susan Mehringer,CAC’s associate director for consulting."We‘re looking forward to delivering new training opportunities in‘23." 查看详细>>

The Cornell Jeb E.Brooks School of Public Policy Executive Master of Health Administration(EMHA)is one of the top 10 executive health care management graduate programs in the nation,according to rankings published by Modern Healthcare Magazine.Of 25 programs,the Cornell Brooks EMHA ranked No.9 based on alumni survey data from the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education(CAHME).The commission calculated each institution’s Net Promoter Score,which measures the likelihood that graduates would positively recommend aprogram.CAHME published the average scores for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years and Cornell’s EMHA received ascore demonstrating high satisfaction–81 out of 100.“Our graduates are our best champions,”said Sean Nicholson,professor and director of the Sloan Program in Health Administration.“This recognition reflects our faculty’s commitment to exemplary education and outstanding career support for our students.”The EMHA is apart of the Sloan Program,a unit of the Cornell Jeb E.Brooks School of Public Policy.Students complete the degree in 18 months online and immerse themselves in real-world projects and discussions with their classmates.They complete two in-person sessions on Cornell’s Ithaca campus and an innovation trek to Boston.Open to students from around the world,the EMHA—the only CAHME-ranked program from an Ivy League institution—provides aflexible learning experience for health care professionals,including clinicians,pharmaceutical professionals,senior living executives,health policymakers,and others.EMHA applicants must have at least five years of experience,and each cohort average is 12-14 years.As they earn the degree,students immediately apply their new knowledge to challenges facing their organizations.“Professionals in the EMHA program have years of industry experience,so these students are well-positioned to quickly discern whether our program truly meets their needs,”said Carmalt.“We’re honored that this ranking shows their satisfaction.It also demonstrates the tremendous value they’ve received from our expert faculty and unique blend of virtual classes and in-person residential sessions.” 查看详细>>

Addressing agroup of researchers,educators and leaders from diverse academic disciplines and backgrounds in the Statler Ballroom on Oct.1,Dr.Yoon Kang,senior associate dean for education and the Richard P.Cohen,M.D.,Associate Professor of Medical Education at Weill Cornell Medicine,identified the common principle that had motivated them to gather together.“The future of medicine,the future of optimizing health outcomes,”she said,“is data and technology.”More than 70 faculty from Weill Cornell Medicine,Cornell Engineering and Cornell Tech assembled in Ithaca—and more joined remotely—to kick off the Cornell Engineering Innovations in Medicine(CEIM)initiative.The newly launched effort,which has been identified as apriority by university leadership,aims to meaningfully advance clinical and translational research,as well as develop new educational programs,through unconventional cross-campus partnerships.“I really believe that we have an opportunity to create aone-of-a kind hub that would bring together Cornell Engineering and Weill Cornell Medicine,”said Emmanuel Giannelis,the inaugural CEIM director,at the opening reception of the weekend-long kickoff symposium.“And we‘re already talking about expanding to include other partners,here in Ithaca as well as in New York City.”CEIM has already had some early success:Among the attendees was the initiative’s first M.D.-M.Eng.students.The M.D.-M.Eng.is anew degree program that allows medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine who have completed their third year to pursue ayear-long immersion in engineering course work and design projects in Ithaca.Among the first of its kind,the program aims to prepare future M.D.s to practice at the intersection of medicine,data sciences and engineering.Lynden Archer,the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering,noted that the plan had been to admit the first cohort of M.D.-M.Eng.students in Fall 2023,and he was encouraged to see early demand for the unique,cross-disciplinary training the degree program provides.“This is,frankly,just the beginning of what we see as arobust milieu of educational programming that takes advantage of our incredible faculty,teaching and design studio infrastructure—as well as our Cornell-wide commitment to supporting innovation in how we educate students—to train future generations of clinicians and engineers,”Archer said.The weekend event marked the beginning of ongoing conversations and work to develop sustainable bridges between collaborators poised to shape the future of medicine and engineering.Building on the momentum provided by the kickoff event,Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Engineering leaders are in the early stages of defining engagement mechanisms for faculty,students and research staff intended to make the opportunities at the heart of CEIM part of the culture on both campuses.Short-term initiatives will focus on bolstering necessary supports—including staffing,housing and access to infrastructure and data—that enable exchanges by faculty and students interested in immersion experiences in laboratories or clinics in New York City or Ithaca.Longer-term efforts will,among other things,focus on jointly hiring faculty who position Cornell for leadership in the early focus areas of the initiative:data-driven medicine,immunoengineering and cancer,tissue engineering and neurotechnology.Looking further into the future,the CEIM leadership plans to assemble core faculty and programming as part of adisciplined strategy to enhance Cornell’s reputation as apremier institution for education,research and technology innovations that improve clinical care.“We already have acommunity of scholars who are innovating at the intersection of engineering and patient care,as evidenced by all of you here today,and we seek to make it even stronger,”said Augustine M.K.Choi,the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and university provost for medical affairs,at the event.“This is an exciting,emerging field,and we’re proud that Cornell will be leading the way.” 查看详细>>

Applying to and attending graduate school can appear especially daunting to prospective students who don’t have role models with these experiences.To prepare and support these students,the Graduate School is expanding an existing student-led program to include all graduate fields starting in the summer of 2022.The original program,Diversity Preview Weekend(DPW),was created by agroup of Cornell life sciences doctoral students who hosted prospective students and ran workshops on what to expect and how to apply to graduate school.The program’s success encouraged additional graduate fields to host similar programs.With the goal of institutionalizing the program across the university,graduate students worked with the Graduate School to develop aproposal that includes all graduate fields by creating acentralized administrative structure.Deans from Cornell’s colleges approved the institutionalization proposal on Nov.9,2021. 查看详细>>

Participants in the Community Learning and Service Partnership(CLASP)program not only have developed new skills through their semesterlong learning partnerships,they have developed friendships and deeper understandings about themselves and each other.Staff members who paired with student mentors for the fall semester attended aDec.12 luncheon in Warren Hall for a“midyear celebration of learning”at which they thanked their mentors and spoke briefly about their learning partnerships.The students also offered their thoughts about the experiences and what they learned from their partners as well.This semester’s 27 partnerships explored learning photography and video editing skills,Microsoft Excel,writing aprofessional resume,how to create abudget for planning the ingredients for arestaurant meal and more.Sasha Endo,CLASP’s program liaison,described her own job history,which took her from teaching students in an inner-city school in Philadelphia and aschool in Ecuador to working as adishwasher in aConnecticut restaurant before coming to Ithaca to work at Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES and then Cornell.She said what she realized is that while all her co-workers,students and their families have had essentially the same levels of intelligence and talent,they have had very different levels of access to education and learning opportunities throughout their lives. 查看详细>>

The Cornell student chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects(NOMA)was recently awarded second place in the annual student design competition at NOMA’s 2019 conference,held Oct.16-20 in Brooklyn,New York.Cornell’s entry,competing with projects by 39 other teams from U.S.architecture colleges,was“Our Backyard,”which provided ahousing solution for amixed-income residential development in the New York City borough.The National Organization for Minority Architects Students(NOMAS),the student extension of NOMA,exposes architecture students of color to the history,culture and practice of professional architects of color.The Cornell chapter is open to minority students from across the university.NOMA’s 2019 conference was titled“Believe the Hype:A Global Collective of Industry Change Agents.”The annual conference also features workshops,meetings and events focusing on the impact of current issues in architecture on people of color.Students raise funds to attend and participate.During the year,NOMAS activities include special events,guest speakers,field trips and site visits.Competition design requirements change yearly,but always recognize and strengthen marginalized neighborhoods and communities. 查看详细>>

A transformative new scholarship program established by Weill Cornell Medicine will eliminate medical education debt for all students who qualify for financial aid,the institution announced Sept.16.A lead gift from The Starr Foundation,directed by Maurice R.Greenberg,a member of the Weill Cornell Medicine Board of Overseers,in partnership with gifts from Joan and overseer Sanford I.Weill and the Weill Family Foundation have made this long-standing goal possible.Through these landmark gifts,including those from other generous donors that together total$160 million,the institution will ensure that the best and brightest aspiring doctors have the financial support and freedom to seek careers in medicine.The new financial aid program expands Weill Cornell Medicine’s scholarship offerings to provide debt-free education to all medical students with demonstrated financial need,beginning with the 2019-20 academic year and then every year thereafter.By replacing student loans with scholarships that cover tuition,housing and other living expenses,the program ensures that all students,including those from economically diverse backgrounds,can pursue their medical education without financial burden. 查看详细>>

The Office of Engagement Initiatives has awarded$1,307,580 in Engaged Curriculum Grants to 25 teams of faculty and community partners that are integrating community-engaged learning into majors and minors across the university.This year’s awards involve 99 Cornell faculty and staff from 46 departments.The 39 community partners are from 10 countries;11 projects are based in New York state. 查看详细>>