Sharon Tennyson, associate professor of policy analysis and management and an expert on consumer protections and financial regulation, will become editor of the Journal of Consumer Affairs June 1. (April 5, 2011)
The Johnson School's new Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute led a 10-day program with aspiring innovators from around the world in a collaboration with KAUST in Saudi Arabia. (March 31, 2011)
On March 23 Cornell held a Library Salon at Lighthouse International in Manhattan that focused on the 1911 Triangle factory fire and the ILR School's Kheel Center collection and website about the fire. (March 28, 2011)
The pests - spotted wing fruit flies and brown marmorated stink bugs - could hit Finger Lakes vineyards this summer, said experts at the Finger Lakes Grape Growers' Conference in Geneva, N.Y.
Celebrated restaurateur Drew Nieporent '77 has been named recipient of the 2011 Hospitality Innovator Award by the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship. (March 21, 2011)
Economist David Card said at a public talk March 15 that immigrants tended to take jobs at the high and low ends of the wage spectrum, and their wages don't affect Americans' salaries. (March 17, 2011)
Government professor Suzanne Mettler has found that many Americans who receive government benefits perceive themselves as not receiving aid. (March 14, 2011)
A project of Cornell's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise aims to make it easier for developing nations to manage sustainable tourism. (March 2, 2011)
The syllabus for a social entrepreneurship course, taught by Anke Wessels of the Center for Transformative Action at Cornell, has won an award from Ashoka, a global group of social entrepreneurs. (Feb. 28, 2011)
