For the past 34 years, food industry employees across the United States and from distant regions of the globe have been mailing their assignments and completed exams to Cornell's Food Industry Distance Education Program.
Through research, coursework, fellowships, leadership initiatives, business incubators, community outreach, business plan competitions and more, an evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem has emerged at Cornell.
Science is central to research universities, but what are the implications of its growing importance and costs, and who should pay for it? A national conference convened by a Cornell University-based higher education group looks at those issues next Tuesday and Wednesday, May 20 and 21. The conference, "Science and the University," is sponsored by the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI). Most sessions will take place in 115 Ives Hall on the Cornell campus and are free and open to the public. (May 13, 2003)
Porus Olpadwala, a city planning professor at Cornell University, has accepted the deanship of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He had been interim dean of the college since July 1998.
Cornell has moved into the top leagues of undergraduate environmental research with the dedication of a $927,000 laboratory in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
About 500 people – alumni, friends, students and faculty at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell are taking part in the official grand opening of the Robert A. and Jan M. Beck Center addition to Statler Hall.
President Jeffrey Lehman will cut the red ribbon that marks the official grand reopening of the renovated School of Industrial and Labor Relations Conference Center, Research and Extension Buildings Oct. 15.
A low-tech idea for a healthy and delicious fast-food snack took first place, and an award of $10,000, in a Cornell University contest for the best business idea. The winning concept is Johnny Applestix -- sliced-to-order sticks of fresh apples lightly fried in canola oil, tossed in a secret blend seasoned with cinnamon and sugar, then served with the customer's choice of a vanilla or a caramel dipping sauce. It was developed by Mark Kuperman and Anthony Dellamano, both second-year students in the master's of management in hospitality program at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. They hope eventually to market their product in malls, ballparks, airports and other high-traffic areas across the United States. (April 4, 2003)
Students from the top U.S. business schools will compete in the first-ever MBA Stock Pitch Competition this April 3 and 4 at Cornell. The competition for future stock analysts is sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell. It takes place at the Johnson School's Parker Center for Investment Research in Sage Hall in the center of campus. The competition will provide a platform for students to showcase their stock picking and presentation skills, considered an important part of an analyst's job in the investment industry. The first-place team will receive a $3,000 award and the second-place team, an award of $1,500. (March 27, 2003)