Cornell will celebrate entrepreneurship April 14-15 with hotelier and philanthropist Harris Rosen, Peter Coors of beer fame and Texas Rangers and United Football League top officials. (April 7, 2011)
Political scientist Jamila Michener expands the "broken windows theory" - used by social scientists to explain bad behavior in bad neighborhoods: criminals feel comfortable there - to show how some people's discomfort with bad neighborhoods inspires good behavior.
Five Cornell undergraduates won the 2012 Nielsen Case Competition in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 24. The competition required teams to solve a real-world business challenge faced by Nielsen.
Twenty-five years ago public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 wrote an essay called “The End of History.” A campus panel Nov. 18 challenged many of Fukuyama's premises.
The Africana Studies and Research Center held its second forum on issues arising from death of Michael Brown’s death Nov. 17. The event focused on law enforcement, training and policies.
President David Skorton has issued a call for immigration with other college presidents. Cornell and other campuses will hold events April 29 related to the effort to reform immigration laws.
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)
The ILR School's Maria Lorena Cook is teaching a course titled The Mexican Revolution at 100: Politics, Economy and Society, which examines the nation's present and past. (Oct. 28, 2010)
Eight faculty members have received Stephen H. Weiss Awards for excellence in their teaching of undergraduate students and contributions to undergraduate education.