Ticket to history: ILR freshman gets close-up view of inauguration

ILR freshman Alyssa O'Connor has a ticket for the presidential inauguration and for a ball as a student in a five-day program sponsored by the University Presidential Inaugural Conference. (Jan. 13, 2009)

eLab grows student businesses and new connections

Recent graduates of Student Agencies eLab, the not-for-profit business accelerator for Cornell undergrads, has secured major funding, stemming from eLab's help. (Jan. 13, 2009)

Hutchens is new director of Cornell in Washington Program

Robert Hutchens, professor of labor economics in Cornell's ILR School, has been named director of the Cornell in Washington program. (Dec. 18, 2008)

Students by day, entrepreneurs by night

For entrepreneurial Cornell students, the 168 entrepreneurship classes offered on campus prepare them for a business future -- but many students don't wait until graduation to start a business. (Dec. 18, 2008)

Alumni survey concludes that entrepreneurship classes shape attitudes

A survey of alumni from the Cornell Entrepreneur Network found that taking even one entrepreneurship class made a graduate's attitude toward entrepreneurship much more positive. (Dec. 16, 2008)

Cornell helps build demographic research capacity in Francophone Africa

Cornell development sociologist Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue is working to improve Francophone African students' training in population science so they can help improve policies in their home countries. (Dec. 15, 2008)

Cornell welcomes its first Joint Japan/World Bank scholars

This fall, Cornell welcomed a Pakistani bureaucrat and a Bhutanese agricultural official to campus through the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program. (Dec. 15, 2008)

Students design exercise and physical therapy spaces for Kendal residents

Interior design and behavioral science students collaborated on a project this semester to design new fitness and physical therapy spaces at Kendal at Ithaca. They built full-scale models of their proposed solutions. (Dec. 9, 2008)

A life worth living: The science of human flourishing

Anthony Ong reviews what he's learned from his research on how positive emotions promote mental and physiological health. (Dec. 8, 2008)