Interim President Hunter Rawlings announced the board of trustees approved a historic, transformative $150 million gift from Trustee Emeritus Fisk Johnson and SC Johnson to endow and name the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
The $150 million gift given by Fisk Johnson and his company to endow the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business marks the latest chapter in a relationship between the Johnson family and Cornell University that extends more than 120 years.
Alumnus H. Fisk Johnson and SC Johnson have committed $150 million for the College of Business, which has been renamed the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. It is the largest single gift to the Ithaca campus.
The Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce has named Rosie Applications as the Distinguished Business of the Year Award for its investment in Ithaca and being pioneers of the tech service industry in the county.
The positive economic momentum from 2016 will benefit the U.S. economy in the first half of 2017, but the country will likely feel the effects of policy changes from President Trump and Congress.
Cornell enters the home stretch of its United Way campaign, having reached more than 85 percent of its goal, and getting ready to hold its one-day online auction Feb. 10.
Events this week include a Lego expo with local student teams, jazz bassists Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer, and a new film on rethinking public education.
In his new book “An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World,” historian Ernesto Bassi traces the “transimperial Greater Caribbean.”
In his new book, "Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos," Andrew Hicks argues that sound has always been an integral part of the history of studying the cosmos.
To demonstrate that by using creativity all employees can participate in Cornell's opportunities, Angela Winfield, director of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity, scaled the wall at the new Lindseth Climbing Center.
A $280,000 grant form the Rockefeller Foundation will fund a Cornell-led workshop in New York City for business leaders to explore strategies to reduce food waste and loss through new products and services.
Cornell Cooperative Extension sponsored the 2017 Empire State Producers Expo, Jan. 17-19 in Syracuse, which featured featured Cornell scientists, CCE educators and experts from across the country.
