The inaugural class of the Cornell-Tsinghua MBA/FMBA program arrived at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management Oct. 1. The 59 students are here for the first U.S. residential session.
Eight faculty members from four colleges were honored recently with awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, allowing them to expand courses or add teaching assistants.
Entrepreneur Barry Beck ’90 returned to campus Sept. 25 to share business advice with ILR School students. He is the founder of Bluemercury, a fast-growing luxury beauty products and retail spa chain.
William B. Gould IV, LLB '61, returned to Cornell to visit the papers he gave to the ILR School's Kheel Center covering baseball, workplace racial discrimination and conflict resolution procedures.
Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit working to close the gender gap in technology and prepare young women for jobs of the future, will speak on campus Oct. 7.
James Mwangi, CEO of African bank Equity Group Holdings – a banking conglomerate with the largest customer base on the African continent - spoke on campus Sept. 22 about his business philosophy.
David S. Cohen '85, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, spoke on campus Sept. 17 about future plans in the agency to become more diverse and increase the focus on digital security threats.
As part of inauguration events, President Elizabeth Garrett moderated a faculty panel on the challenges inequality poses for democratic institutions Sept. 18 in Bailey Hall.
Mark Weinberger presented the 33rd annual Hatfield Lecture, "Going Long: Leadership Strategies for a Volatile World," Sept. 17 in Statler Auditorium, to a packed audience of students, faculty and alumni.
