With the help of nearly 100 committee members from across campus and with faculty governance proposed, the College of Business is beginning to take shape. College leaders reported on progress to faculty and staff May 10.
The Cornell College of Business is on track to launch in the coming academic year, said Dean Soumitra Dutta. Open forums about next steps will be held over the next two weeks for faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Ten Cornell faculty in the social sciences, humanities and arts will be next year’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future faculty-in-residence fellows working on sustainability projects.
The Institute for the Social Sciences is supporting 15 projects and three conferences through its biannual small grant program: $12,000 to investigators for research and $5,000 for conferences.
An easy-to-wear heart monitor and a nonprofit that encourages young girls to start their own business shared top honors April 15 in the Big Idea competition, part of Entrepreneurship at Cornell's yearly Celebration.
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.
The Institute for the Social Sciences recently concluded theme project tackled tried to learn how sociologists, psychologists, economists and others struggle to understand one another.
David Ahlers, an entrepreneur and educator who taught at Cornell’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, died in Ithaca March 28 at age 78 after a long illness.
More than 700 alumni, parents, students, faculty and staff are expected to attend Celebration, Entrepreneurship at Cornell's annual business conference, April 14-15 on campus.
