Study: Tech can empower home care workers, not just surveil them

A team of Cornell researchers is exploring how workplace tracking apps can be used not to surveil workers, but to help them build solidarity and improve their working conditions.

AI tool accurately sorts cancer patients by their likely outcomes

A new artificial intelligence-based method accurately sorts cancer patients into groups that have similar characteristics before treatment and similar outcomes after treatment, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Novel molecular maneuver helps malaria parasite dodge the immune system

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered that a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can shut down a key set of genes, rendering itself “immunologically invisible” — sometimes for years.

Alumnus Van Hamilton Barbeau works to give healthcare startups a boost

The new Startup Cornell podcast episode features Van Hamilton Barbeau '11, MS/MBA '20, AVP at Ochsner Ventures, the venture capital arm of Ochsner Health.

Around Cornell

Machine learning uncovers social risk clusters linked to suicide across U.S.

Using machine learning technology, a new study has identified three distinct profiles describing social and economic factors that are associated with a higher risk of suicide.

Weill Cornell Medicine celebrates future health care leaders

A total of 450 expected graduates in the Class of 2025 received their degrees from Weill Cornell Medicine during the institution’s annual Commencement ceremony, held May 15 at Carnegie Hall.

National Cancer Institute’s $4M grant funds prostate cancer imaging study

Weill Cornell Medicine has received a projected $4 million grant to conduct a clinical trial testing whether a new imaging approach could reduce the need for biopsies to monitor prostate cancer.

Zepbound outduels Wegovy in weight-loss clinical trial

Tirzepatide (trade name Zepbound) promoted greater weight loss in individuals with obesity than semaglutide (trade name Wegovy) in a clinical trial that compared the safety and efficacy of the injectable drugs.

Four faculty receive 2025 Carpenter Advising Awards

Nominations are solicited annually from all members of the academic community, the awards bestowed in recognition of the importance of undergraduate advising.