Successful startup businesses are a way to make a town or neighborhood more economically vibrant. But mainstream agencies that help people start and sustain small businesses have often overlooked the minority community.
That's…
Author Bert Gervais kicked off the mentoring program offered through Scholars Working Ambitiously to Graduate with about 70 men of color, Oct. 13, at the Africana Studies and Research Center. (Oct. 18, 2012)
Cornell Cooperative Extension-New York City is helping elementary school children grow healthy produce to improve nutrition throughout the New York state. (Oct. 17, 2012)
A three-year study by Cornell researchers suggests that growth in local farm aggregation and distribution businesses may provide economic benefits to local communities, but that some other businesses may suffer.
Two student members of Kyoto Now! made their case for the university to divest from investments in fossil fuel companies at an open session of the Cornell Board of Trustees meeting March 28.
To the editor:
The Oct. 18 article in the Cornell Chronicle by intern Sam Warren '07, "Martin Bernal revisits 'Black Athena' controversy in lecture," is a valiant effort by a young scholar of limited experience to…
About 50 Cornell and community members braved a raw noontime Nov. 12 at the World War I Memorial flagpole on West Campus to recognize the men and women, past and present, who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. (Nov. 15, 2007)
Rudyard Kipling, who famously wrote, "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," obviously never met Lisa Nishii. Negotiating cultural differences is something she has had to do from birth. Now an assistant professor of human resource (HR) studies and international and comparative labor at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Nishii has a most unusual heritage: Her Japanese father is descended from Buddhist monks, while her mother traces her ancestry back to the original Mayflower settlers.