To combat elder abuse — an issue the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called a “significant public health problem” — Weill Cornell Medical College received a $13.6 million gift from a charitable foundation last month, according to Weill officials. 

Weill Cornell Medical College is launching a new Master of Science in Health Informatics in January 2013 aimed at teaching students scientific techniques about health services.

“Medicine is going … in the direction of better materials science and more electronics, so this is absolutely perfect,” one administrator said. 

After being found by a federal court to have misused funding intended for HIV/AIDS research, Weill Cornell Medical College paid the government and a whistleblower about $1.6 million on Friday, according to an attorney for the lawsuit’s plaintiff.

Coupled with mandated legal fees, Weill Cornell Medical College could pay more than $1.7 million.

Dr. Antonio Gotto, dean emeritus of Weill Cornell Medical College, was awarded the 24th Annual Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award in Cardiovascular Research last week.

A major credit rating agency revised its outlook of the University’s financial situation on Sunday from “negative” to “stable.” The company also affirmed its “Aa1” rating of Cornell’s long-term bonds.

Starting this month, Congress will decrease the maximum amount National Institute of Health researchers can be paid from grants awarded to universities and medical colleges by the NIH.

Former Enron director Robert Belfer was revealed on Wednesday to be the anonymous benefactor behind a $100 million donation to help finance a state-of-the-art research building at Weill Cornell Medical College.  

Weill Cornell Medical College reports that its hospital in New York City was not damaged after the tropical storm Irene hit Sunday morning.