Cornell Tech awarded five student startup companies with $40,000 in pre-seed funding and one year of free co-working office space in its inaugural Startup Awards competition.
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.
ILR School assistant professor Eli Friedman has been named to the Apple Inc. Academic Advisory Board, to advise the company on ethical working conditions for supply chain employees.
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.
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.
An Agriculture Research Fund established by New York state vegetable growers is an endowment based at Cornell to support critically needed research in breeding, growing and protecting vegetables.