While much attention is focused on the founders of startups, business professors from Cornell University and Georgia Tech wanted to know more about "joiners" – people attracted to working in startups as employees.
About 60 students, staff and faculty members met over dinner at a “Breaking Bread” event Feb. 10 to share their experiences and perspectives on race, religion and campus climate.
Cornell has entered into an agreement with Ruckus Network Inc. to provide students with access to the company's music and video download service. (Sept. 21, 2007)
The Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts is Jan. 23-25 on the Cornell campus and other venues in Ithaca. The festival showcases cutting-edge ideas through theater, lectures, music and multimedia events. (Oct. 16, 2008)
First-year DMA graduate student composer Tonia Ko is one of 16 recipients of this year's American Academy of Arts and Letters awards in music, along with Steve Burke, DMA '01.
Events on campus this week include martial arts in theory and practice, a grand tour of Rome at the Johnson Museum, and 'Faust' with live musical accompaniment Halloween night in Sage Chapel. (Oct. 25, 2012)
Entrepreneurial silent-film star Irene Castle, who filmed for Ithaca's Wharton Studios, enabled new fashion possibilities that came to epitomize 1920s style. A multimedia exhibit runs through Aug. 15.
At the May 26 “Transformative Humanities: Faculty Reflections on Life-Changing Creative Works” panel, three faculty members shared encounters with great works in the arts and humanities.
Astronomers led by Cornell research associate Lei Hao find new evidence of a dusty torus surrounding active galactic nuclei. The evidence, published in the June 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, supports the unified theory of active galactic nuclei.
The first 15 students to complete medical studies at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar were honored May 6 in a gala convocation, which featured remarks from the Emir of Qatar and a concert by famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. (May 7, 2008)