Students have examined the commercial viability of an emerging business: farming housefly larva meal into animal or fish feed. They are working with faculty fellows at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.
Blue-collar training without a strong college-preparatory focus leads to blue-collar jobs for men but penalizes women in the labor market, says April Sutton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell Population Center.
Alumni can best support Cornell by promoting the new College of Business’ excellence in hospitality, agriculture, sustainability and technology, said Provost Michael Kotlikoff, in an online alumni forum.
Professor Tapan Mitra has established annual prizes benefiting students in the Department of Economics with a $100,000 endowment, as a “concrete expression of my continuing attachment to this great institution of learning.”
A faculty member since 1983, McLaughlin is senior associate director of the Dyson School. He will become Dyson's interim David J. Nolan Dean starting July 1, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced.
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.
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.