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Celebrating Match Day Success at Weill Cornell Medicine

March 17, 2023

a group of students together celebrating during the annual Match Day

Video of Match Day 2023 at Weill Cornell Medicine

Chimsom Orakwue imagined life as a doctor for as long as she can remember. It is the thread that connected her childhood to high school to college and, four years ago, to Weill Cornell Medicine.

Now a graduating medical student, Orakwue on March 17 reached a milestone that brought her ever closer to attaining her goal: learning where she would...

Dr. Anthony Fauci M.D. ’66 Returns to Weill Cornell Medicine for Debut Screening of ‘American Masters’

March 15, 2023

students gathered around Dr. Anthony Fauci following his documentary screening at a medical institution

When Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recalls his college summers working construction jobs around New York City, one memory stands out crystal clear: It was the summer before the start of medical school and he was on the team that built the Samuel J. Wood Library at Weill Cornell Medicine.

While on his lunch break, Dr. Fauci entered the building, looked down from the top of the library stairs and said to himself, “Oh my...

Reunion 2022 Welcomes Hundreds of Alumni Back to Campus

November 21, 2022

More than 300 medical college alumni, representing classes spanning more than six decades, were warmly welcomed back to campus by Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, as Reunion 2022 kicked off the morning of Friday, Oct. 7 – the first in-person alumni reunion since 2018.

Thanks to the hard work of volunteer leadership – Alumni Association Board president Dr. Joseph Habboushe (M.D. ’06), reunion chair Dr. Kathleen Foley (M....