Grad School Alumni News

Opportunity Knocks

Illustration of a student walking through a key-shaped door.

By Molly Schulson
Illustrations by Aaron Sacco

For three Weill Cornell Medicine summer training programs—all dedicated to helping socioeconomically disadvantaged or minority undergraduates explore careers in the medical sciences—this is a milestone year. Two of them, Advancing Cornell Career Experiences for Science Students (ACCESS) and Gateways to the Laboratory, mark 25 years of service, while the Travelers Summer Research Fellowship celebrates 50. All three provide...

Gift establishes Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation

A scientist and his team

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Commencement Honors Future Healthcare Leaders

Graduating students in robes

For most of his life, Vishal Patel wanted to be a teacher. But midway through college, he discovered a love for medicine and realized he could combine those two passions by becoming a physician. That journey reached a milestone on May 31 with Dr. Patel’s graduation from Weill Cornell Medical College in front of his family—12 members in all—who celebrated his crossing Carnegie Hall’s iconic stage by brandishing large cardboard cutouts of his face.

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