A student team from New York University's Stern School of Business was the first-place winner April 4 in the first-ever MBA Stock Pitch Competition. Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, which hosted the competition, came in second. They competed for two days against teams from seven other top U.S. business schools and were judged by a blue-ribbon panel of Wall Street stock-analysis experts on the buy and sell sides. The NYU team won a cash prize of $3,000, and the Johnson School team won $1,500. The competition for future stock analysts was co-sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). (April 8, 2003)
Recent life-sciences research by Cornell University scientists and their students in Ithaca, N.Y., will be showcased April 12 at the Library of Congress (Thomas Jefferson Building, 1st Street SE), Washington, D.C. The scientific forum is titled "The Power and Promise of Life Sciences." (April 8, 2003)
The Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Manhattan on Friday, April 11, instead of Thursday, April 10. The change was made so that university trustees and administrators can support the Cornell men's hockey team in the national semifinal Frozen Four game at noon Thursday in Buffalo, N.Y. The committee will hold a brief open session when it meets at 12:15 p.m., April 11, in the Fall Creek Room at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. The public session will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings and an update on the New York state budget. (April 8, 2003)
David Lin, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded one of the 20 2003 Beckman Foundation Young Investigator grants awarded nationally. The grant to Lin, providing $240,000 over a three-year period, is to further his study of connectivity in the mouse olfactory system. Laboratory mice, including transgenic mice, are used by Lin as animal models to study axon guidance and target selection in the nervous system. His laboratory focuses on the olfactory system and how neurons in the nose are able to identify their appropriate targets in the brain. A better understanding of connectivity in one species' olfactory system might someday inform studies of development or regeneration of other critical systems. (April 8, 2003)
The Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan Thursday, April 10, at 2 p.m. at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. The public session will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings and an update on the State University of New York (SUNY) budget. (April 04, 2003)
Cornell University will host a symposium, "Globalization, Agricultural Development and Rural Livelihoods," April 11-12, examining globalization of markets and the status of world food supplies and of nutrition. The symposium, in 401 Warren Hall, will feature a keynote address, "Globalization, Agriculture and Rural Poverty: Implications for Developing Countries," by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell's Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy. The talk will be given in the opening session at 8:30 a.m. on April 11 (April 04, 2003)
Hotel operators have often discounted their room rates during slow times, in the belief that lower rates will increase revenues. They won't, according to the preliminary findings of a study at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, the most prestigious national awards for undergraduate students in the fields of science, mathematics or engineering, have been won by four Cornell undergraduates. Now in its 15th year, the Goldwater Scholarship programs honors the late U.S. senator from Arizona and provides awards of up to $7,500 per year for each recipient to help cover the costs of tuition, fees, books and room-and-board.
A low-tech idea for a healthy and delicious fast-food snack took first place, and an award of $10,000, in a Cornell University contest for the best business idea. The winning concept is Johnny Applestix -- sliced-to-order sticks of fresh apples lightly fried in canola oil, tossed in a secret blend seasoned with cinnamon and sugar, then served with the customer's choice of a vanilla or a caramel dipping sauce. It was developed by Mark Kuperman and Anthony Dellamano, both second-year students in the master's of management in hospitality program at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. They hope eventually to market their product in malls, ballparks, airports and other high-traffic areas across the United States. (April 4, 2003)
Betsy Cooper of Amherst, N.Y., a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, is one of 76 students selected from a national pool of 635 candidates to win a prestigious Truman Scholarship.