Investors view CEOs more favorably when they respond to shareholder activism in ways that conform to gender stereotypes, according to new research out of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
Ratan N. Tata ’59, B. Arch. ’62, one of India’s most influential and respected business leaders and philanthropists, and a former Cornell trustee who became the university’s largest international donor, died Oct. 9. He was 86.
In advance of his upcoming lecture at AAP, new chair of the Department of Architecture Jose Castillo shares lessons learned through his wide-ranging work to date and reflected on some of the big questions still driving him as both an educator and architect.
Two grants, up to $25,000 each, will be awarded for research in the life sciences to Cornell faculty who enhance the diversity, equity and inclusion goals of the university.
The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy will host author, Cornell alumnus, and ProPublica climate reporter Abrahm Lustgarten for “On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America, in the next installment of the Koen-Horowitz Lecture Series at Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall from 7:30pm to 9:00pm on Friday, November 8.
A new technique developed in the lab of Juan Hinestroza from the College of Human Ecology could create waterproof coatings for clothes out of discarded textiles – far safer for humans and the environment than current coatings.
In his new book, associate professor Jeremy Braddock explores the history of the Firesign Theatre, who used multitrack audio and avant-garde collage to put a countercultural spin on the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s.
The award funds innovative but inherently risky research endeavors that have the potential to overturn existing scientific paradigms or create new ones.
