Doctoral student Meredith Ramirez Talusan, M.A. ’11, who studies comparative literature, serendipitously taught a Filipino woman how to knit. A year later she started a social enterprise that now employs 25 knitters in the Philippines.
Marla Coppolino, a staff member of the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization, also is a snail wrangler, biological illustrator, Nigerian dwarf goat breeder, snail educator and entrepreneur, and a researcher.
Policy Meets Design, a new course offered by the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, gives students real-world design experience in health care facilities.
An all-alumni panel comprising banking, finance and financial policy experts spent Sunday morning of Charter Day Weekend unpacking the complexities of U.S. financial regulatory reform since the Great Recession of 2007-08.
Studying everything from potential medicine to the aromatic properties of popular beverages, about 120 undergraduates put project posters on display April 22 at the 30th Annual Spring Research Forum.
Three student teams took home prizes April 16-17 in contests held during Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s Celebration conference, while another 10 teams presented their final pitches at eLab’s Demo Day.
Soda taxes and beverage portion size restrictions were unpalatable to the 1,319 U.S. adults questioned in a 2012 survey as part of a study reported online March 10 in the journal Preventive Medicine.