Business executives discussed emerging directions in a sustainable tourism roundtable hosted by the Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise.
Three new Tisch University Professors – Nicholas Abbott, Catherine Kling and Daniel Lee – were named earlier this month by the Cornell University Board of Trustees, bringing to six the total number of current faculty carrying the honor and title.
Filiz Garip, a former engineer whose career has been defined by interdisciplinary thinking, has been named director of a Cornell incubator for new ideas and research in economic sociology.
Rohit Verma, dean of external relations at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, has been named founding provost of Vin University in Hanoi, Vietnam. His three-year appointment is effective July 1.
Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will lecture on “The Evolving Political Economy of Central Banking” April 19.
Veterans from around the country recently learned about topics from digital media strategy to financing at the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, hosted by the School of Hotel Administration.
The Cornell Entrepreneurs of the Year, Wayfair founders Niraj Shah and Steve Conine, spoke about their time as Cornell students and the rise of their company at a Q&A session April 19.
Cornell’s first Digital Agriculture Hackathon saw students from a variety of disciplines come together to develop ways of addressing some of the world’s most pressing agricultural challenges.