Grad School Alumni News

Dr. Ting Jia Receives Weill Cornell Graduate School Alumni Award

Barbara Hempstead and Ting Jia

Dr. Ting Jia (Ph.D. ’08), founder and managing member at Octagon Capital Advisors, has been awarded the 2025 Weill Cornell Graduate School Alumni Award of Distinction.  

The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences has been recognizing alumni with this award since...

Ribbon Cutting Commemorates Student Residence Completion, Official Name

A group of people cutting a ceremonial ribbon

As a third-year medical student, Stone Streeter cut his teeth during his medical education at Weill Cornell Medicine while living in the institution’s student housing—first at Olin Hall during his classroom instruction, then at Lasdon House for his clerkships. As he eyes his last year at Weill Cornell Medical College, he’s preparing for yet another move: to the Feil Family and Weill Family Residence Hall.

“Now, I’m standing here today, a mosaic of past experiences, ready to tackle the...

Five Questions for Kelsey Hopland, Ph.D ’24 Postdoctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Neuroscience WCGS graduate, former science policy intern

Kelsey Hopland

1. You spent four months as a science policy intern at Research!America, a nonprofit medical and health research advocacy alliance based in Arlington, Va. What did your role entail? 

I kept leadership apprised of pressing issues in sci...

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