More than 700 students and advisers from 42 high schools came to campus April 11-14 for the 2013 Cornell Model United Nations Conference; its theme was 'Raise Your Placard, Raise Your Voice.'
American Express Chairman and CEO Kenneth I. Chenault and USA Today senior reporter David Lieberman will be on campus April 3 for a forum hosted by Cornell's Johnson School and the School of Hotel Administration. (March 25, 2008)
Percy Allen II, MPA '75, shared his secrets for reviving money-losing hospitals with the Sloan Program in Health Administration May 5. Some keys: cheerleading and not cutting too close to the bone.
Fredrik Logevall and Jonathan Kirshner discussed foreign policy before an audience Oct. 22 at the Cornell Club in New York City, just before the televised debate on the topic.
In a campus lecture, John Psaropoulos, an independent journalist for NPR, PBS and Al-Jazeera, explained how and why Greece is on the brink of bankruptcy. (Oct. 23, 2012)
Cornell's Johnson School has launched the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute to act as a hub for entrepreneurial research, education and programmatic activities. (April 8, 2011)
Professor Matthew Evangelista, in giving one of the Cornell Context lectures for the 2013 New Student Reading Project, said that human rights violations, such as the Japanese-American internment in World War II, persist today.
A new universitywide minor in business, sponsored by four Cornell colleges, will be available to all undergraduates in the spring 2013 semester. (Oct. 18, 2012)