At Winter Commencement, Dec. 18, President David Skorton recognized 735 candidates and thanked 2,000 attending friends and family, saying that Cornell graduates are known for overcoming challenges. (Dec. 20, 2010)
Young Mi Park '79 offered entrepreneurial ideas for fostering career success Dec. 7 at the New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library on Madison Avenue.
Gioia De Cari performed her one-woman-show on the plights of being a woman at MIT Nov. 11 and 12; a faculty panel followed each performance. (Nov. 16, 2010)
Philanthropist and retired businessman Fred Young '64, M.Eng. '66, MBA '66, has committed $11 million to CCAT, a proposed 25-meter aperture telescope in Chile's Atacama desert.
Fifteen faculty members affiliated with Cornell's entrepreneurship program have been honored with Louis H. Zalaznick Faculty Support Grants to help them expand their courses or add teaching assistants.
The winners of the first annual Johnson School Marketing Challenge: Battle of the Brands, in which teams of Johnson students developed and executed marketing plans for specific products, won $1,000. (Nov. 9, 2010)
After 15 students briefly pitched their business ideas to a panel, the judges and audience chose three winners Oct. 27 for their viability and uniqueness. (Nov. 1, 2010)
Scot Safon, MBA '84, CNN Worldwide's chief marketing officer, talked about how the the digital revolution has transformed the field of marketing, in his Oct. 21 talk on campus. (Oct. 29, 2010)
For the 30th anniversary of the Knight Scholars program, Cornell hosted an Oct. 19 luncheon in honor of the late Lester Knight's son, Chuck Knight '57.
