Fred Van Sickle, chief development officer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, has been named Cornell's next vice president for alumni affairs and development, effective Jan. 18.
President Martha E. Pollack congratulated about 300 newly minted Ph.D.s in a speech that challenged them to "be an expert in your own discipline," and to "model the ways in which experts think and draw conclusions in everything you do."
Patrick Braga '17 combines his interests in urban planning, music and the architecture of Le Corbusier in his second opera, "Eyes That Do Not See," Nov. 11 in Milstein Hall.
Computer scientists from Cornell show how websites can analyze their value to advertisers. They recently presented their method at the 16th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation in Portland, Oregon.
Low building quality negatively affects student achievement, and this is exacerbated by high student mobility; both conditions are more often found in low-income districts, reports a Cornell study. (Dec. 1, 2010)
Using data from “Shark Tank,” economist Sharon Poczter found that women entrepreneurs got about half as much funding for their startups as men – but only because they asked for less. The takeaway? Ask and you shall receive.
Top Cornell and visiting academics take on the ramifications of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in an open discussion Sept. 12 at 4:30 p.m., Statler Hall Auditorium. (Sept. 7, 2011)
With soda taxes on the ballot in four cities Nov. 8, and a law on deck in 2017 in another, behavioral economist John Cawley says these taxes have increased soda prices by only half as much as they were intended to.