The W.E. Cornell program, which aims to improve gender representation in entrepreneurship, is launching its spring cohort as industries reckon with the inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Commercialization Fellowship, which wrapped up its fifth cohort in December 2020, introduces Ph.D. candidates in Engineering to the process of turning their academic research into businesses that solve real-world problems.
Jehron Petty ’20, co-founder of Black Entrepreneurs in Training and alumni of eLab, is on a mission to move the needle for diversity and inclusivity in the tech industry with the launch of ColorStack, which aims to increase the number of Black, Latinx, and Native American college students in computing.
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke to a tough path ahead for the upstate New York economy at Cornell’s annual town-gown regional meeting on January 26.
Among the metropolitan areas in Upstate New York, Ithaca had the highest concentration of federal grants awarded to start-ups and small companies in the STEM space in 2018.
This past summer, a select number of students participated in the first ever Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator.
The latest achievement by a Cornellian-led startup dedicated to protecting honeybees – a $500,000 runner-up prize at the fifth annual 76West Clean Energy Competition – is creating quite the buzz in New York’s Southern Tier.
The Grow-NY region, made up of counties in the Finger Lakes, Central New York, and Southern Tier regions, has seen employment in the food and ag sectors grow by 25.4% in the past decade1, according to a Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA) at Cornell University analysis of New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) data.
The Grow-NY region, made up of counties in the Finger Lakes, Central New York, and Southern Tier regions, has seen employment in the food and ag sectors grow by 25.4% in the past decade1, according to a Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA) at Cornell University analysis of New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) data.
