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W.E. Cornell

Andrea Ippolito and Chairwoman Velázquez at the Committee on Small Business, January 2020

Ippolito Testified Before Congress to Support Diverse Innovators

January 21, 2020

Andrea Ippolito ‘06, M.Eng. ’07, testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business on January, 15, 2020, and shared six policy recommendations to push for additional support and patents for diverse innovators in America.

Programs empower underrepresented student entrepreneurs

August 30, 2019

CREA’s new programs, W.E. Cornell, for women entrepreneurs, and BET, for black entrepreneurs, are designed to empower and train female and minority entrepreneurs.

22 student entrepreneurs join W.E. Cornell

November 27, 2018

Cornell’s new entrepreneurship program, W.E. (women entrepreneurs) Cornell, recently announced its first cohort of students for the 2018-19 academic year.

W.E. Cornell program focuses on women in STEM

September 6, 2018

Andrea Ippolito ’06, M.Eng. ’07, executive director of Cornell’s engineering management program and an eLab instructor, noticed an underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship classrooms and programs on campus. She decided to shift the norm.