Although business was looking up, Ezra Cornell still felt financially insecure during this period. His interest in farm machinery led to his investment in the Albany Agricultural Works and the Steam Agricultural Co. (April 11, 2007)
Cornell was one of 12 colleges and universities to receive the Climate Leadership Award for Institutional Excellence in Climate Leadership. (Oct. 19, 2010)
When the $140 million New Life Sciences Technology Building (LSTB) opens in 2007, 11,000 square feet on two floors will be devoted to a center designed to foster start-up companies.
Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Acumen Fund, gave this year's Iscol lecture Sept. 27, talking about entrepreneurial approaches to solving problems of global poverty. (Sept. 29, 2010)
Cornell's Math Club hosts Puzzle Nights monthly (where all, including high school students are invited), which includes cookies and camaraderie. Attendees don't have to be good at computation.
Photonics pioneer Michal Lipson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is named one of 23 MacArthur Fellows for 2010 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Cornell juniors receive Truman, Goldwater scholarships. Junior Elisabeth Becker, double major in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to receive a Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarship, and Kevin Joon-Ming Huang, a junior in the College of Engineering, has won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
What makes some hotel companies more profitable than others? Do strategies for investing in employees actually improve a company's bottom line and, if so, which strategies do this best? Soon hoteliers will get answers to key questions like those and others affecting their profitability thanks to a new strategic alliance between the top hotel school in the United States and PKF Consulting, a firm that manages the most comprehensive proprietary database on the financial performance of U.S. hotels. The new alliance between the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and PKF is the only one ever made between the consulting firm and a research university. (October 10, 2002)
Lionel Jospin, former prime minister of France (1997--2002), will deliver the keynote address for a three-day conference at Cornell University titled "Critical Anatomy of the New American Empire," co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Economy and Society (CSES) and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell (SHC). The conference runs Thursday, April 8, through Saturday, April 10. Jospin's talk, titled "The United States: Empire or Super Nation-State?" will be Thursday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m. in 200 Baker Hall. The talk and all conference events are free and open to the public. (April 02, 2004)