ITHACA, N.Y. -- Corporate entrepreneurs in New York City will use distance learning techniques to give hands-on marketing advice to Cornell inventors on the university's upstate campus this Friday afternoon, Jan. 29. The Cornell Research Foundation offers more than 400 licenses to commercialize patentable technology invented or developed on the Cornell University campus. Among the most intriguing are:
Co-founders of El Puente, the Brooklyn-based school and community youth development organization that nurtures holistic leadership for peace and social justice, will speak on "Education for Social Justice: El Puente," Wednesday, Sept. 25, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall Auditorium D on the Cornell University campus. The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service, an interdisciplinary program in Cornell's College of Human Ecology. The program is designed to inspire undergraduate students to become leaders in public service who will address the intractable problems that face society, such as hunger, poverty, ignorance, homelessness and violence. (September 19, 2002)
Stephen H. Weiss '57, a presidential councilor and a board-elected member of the Cornell Board of Trustees for 24 years, including eight as chair, died on Wednesday, April 16, at age 72. (April 17, 2008)
On P.S. 84's rooftop in New York City, students tend an herb garden and share the harvest with school staff and others in their lunchroom. At an elementary school in Van Etten, N.Y., second-graders grow their own "vegetable soup"…
The end of the Iraq war gives universities the opportunity to hire veterans with leadership abilities and relevant skills in areas such as operations, business, engineering, finance and hospitality. (Jan. 10, 2012)
'You are the unsung heroes and heroines of our society,' media star Katie Couric, co-anchor of NBC's 'Today' show, said in a moving speech to doctors and other health-care professionals gathered to discuss crucial updates and issues in gastrointestinal cancers.
At the Cornell Hospitality Icon & Innovator Awards, 800 travel and hospitality leaders celebrated Tom Pritzker, executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, and Steve Ells, founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Fiction writers Lydia Peelle '00 and Rattawut Lapcharoensap '01 are winners of 2010 Whiting Writers' Awards, a prestigious $50,000 award given to up-and-coming writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. (Nov. 2, 2010)
The Society of Women Engineers at Cornell and the Cornell chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers recently received national awards. (Nov. 14, 2007)