New legislation signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on July 12 removes legal obstacles impeding access to hemp seed in a bid to streamline research and farming opportunities in New York.
President Elizabeth Garrett formed the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group last November to focus on improving climate trends by spurring cross-disciplinary solutions on campus and globally.
Let's Epicure, a startup created by Rachel Wang, MBA '15, Claire Lambrecht '06, MBA '15, and Miwa Takaki, MBA '15 won a $10,000 business competition prize for their company, which helps with healthy eating.
While much attention is focused on the founders of startups, business professors from Cornell University and Georgia Tech wanted to know more about "joiners" – people attracted to working in startups as employees.
Food banks may soon be able to boost the nutritional value of the food they distribute to the hungry, thanks to a new harvesting model created by Cornell economists.
Five Johnson School alumni have committed to give the school $27 million and a new Innovation Challenge seeks to raise another $23 million by June 20, 2015.
An expansion of Cornell Cooperative Extension's Harvest NY agriculture program allows the program to extend its economic development activities to support farmers in northern New York state.
Six engineering doctoral students will spend the summer and the fall semester exploring the potential to turn their research into a business as the first commercialization fellows.
Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell C. McAdam '76 will speak on campus Sept. 19 as the 32nd Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education on “Tackling the World's Biggest Challenges: The Future of Communications Technology.”
Entrepreneur Barry Beck ’90 returned to campus Sept. 25 to share business advice with ILR School students. He is the founder of Bluemercury, a fast-growing luxury beauty products and retail spa chain.