The Runway Startup Postdoc Program – described as "part business school, part research institution, part startup incubator" – is designed to advance the participants' research and launch new business ventures.
Cornell is leading the Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials thanks to a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Development economist Chris Barrett and his research partners won an award from USAID for their innovative livestock insurance research. The insurance saves nomadic herders from falling into poverty during times of drought.
Younger citizens are taking more liberal social positions, according to polls conducted by students in the course "Taking America’s Pulse," where students design, conduct and analyze a real public opinion poll.
Research by professor of government Gustavo Flores-Macías on Colombian security taxes reveals how the government was able to tax the economic elite to benefit state security.
Instead of taking his economics degree and leaving after graduation, Turkel Anwar ’15 decided to spend an extra semester at Cornell leading Student Agencies. The organization that runs seven local businesses and employs more than 200 Cornell undergrads.
Assistant professor of economics Matt Backus is using experience from his year at eBay Research Labs to inspire a variety of consumer behavior research projects.