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Entrepreneurship to play 'essential' role in College of Business

With entrepreneurship faculty and classes now scattered across campus, the nascent College of Business is poised to act as the focal point for entrepreneurship-related academics at Cornell.

Students tackle global challenges at Clinton conference

Ten students received when they participated in the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting, April 1-3, at UC Berkeley to compete for funding to support social justice projects.

New interdisciplinary initiative explores capitalism

A new History of Capitalism initiative from Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences and the ILR School brings together scholars from across the university to examine the nature of capitalism.

Kelly Musick named Cornell Population Center director

Kelly Musick, associate professor of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, has been appointed to a five-year term as director of the Cornell Population Center.

Bartels World Affairs Fellow Alan Blinder lectures April 19

Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will lecture on “The Evolving Political Economy of Central Banking” April 19.

An insider's view of post-Fukushima nuclear energy

Allison M. Macfarlane, a geologist and former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will lecture on nuclear energy post-Fukushima on campus April 25 at 3:30 p.m. in 700 Clark Hall.

CCE helps breweries and cideries hone their craft

Cornell Cooperative Extension and its educators have joined forces with industry leaders to provide research-based resources for the area's current and future brewers, malters and grain growers.

Alice Li will direct Cornell's technology transfer group

Alice Li has been named executive director of Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing, the university's patent and technology transfer arm. She had been serving as the group’s interim director since August 2014.

'China on Strike' offers modern-day workers' narratives

Workers in contemporary industrial China give their first-hand accounts and uncensored views of their struggle for their rights in a new book co-edited by ILR School assistant professor Eli Friedman.