Innovation & Eship Workshop: Great Value Propositions
2025-10-23 11:45 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Your value proposition communicates the unique benefits your product or service provides customers, especially compared to your competitors. A successful entrepreneur builds their business strategy around an excellent value proposition, attracting customers and investors by proving their product-market fit.
How do you create a compelling value proposition? Attend this free workshop to find out!
Moderated by Cornell Entrepreneur in Residence Brad Treat, MBA’02 the panel discussion will feature:

Susan Fleming, MS’08, PhD’10 Cornell Entrepreneur in Residence and former senior lecturer in the Nolan School of Hotel Administration
Amy Cheney, MBA Cornell Entrepreneur in Residence
Peter Mintun, BA’14 Associate at ARCH Venture Partners, PhD in Molecular Engineering

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Lab to Impact series
2025-10-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
This fall, the Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) invites you to Lab to Impact, an educational series designed to help Cornell researchers, inventors, and partners take their innovations from lab to marketplace.
We’re starting the season with a foundational session focused on intellectual property and the full journey of technology commercialization. Whether you’re new to IP or already navigating disclosure, this virtual session will offer tools, examples, and guidance tailored to Cornell innovators.
What you’ll learn
🗺️ The commercialization roadmap: Understand the full lifecycle — from invention disclosure to licensing and beyond.
💡 IP fundamentals, simplified: Get grounded in patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
✨ Telling the story of your tech: Learn how CTL positions innovations to attract licensees, collaborators, and investors.
🤝 How CTL supports your journey: Hear directly from CTL leadership about the resources available to help bring your work to the world.
About the Series
Explore real-world paths to impact this fall, with sessions grounded in Cornell’s 13 technology pillars and led by internal and external experts:

Monday, Sept. 15: Understanding the Technology Commercialization Process
Wednesday, Oct. 29:From Idea to Prototyping and Design in Medical Devices
Tuesday, Nov. 18:The Path to Commercializing Semiconductor Technology
Tuesday, Dec. 16:Realizing Impact through Commercialization

NIH Career Symposium
2025-11-03 - 2025-11-06 | Online
Registration is now open for the 2025 NIH Career Symposium! This virtual, multi-day event will highlight a broad range of career paths available to biomedical researchers. Panels and workshops throughout the symposium are designed to help postdocs and doctoral students in the life sciences explore new career paths, learn more about a specific career, and prepare for a successful job search. The Career Symposium will take place November 3rd – 6th, 2025. Register here!
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2025 ANNUAL NIH CAREER SYMPOSIUM
November 3 – 6, 2025 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Register: https://whova.com/portal/registration/eNR7KvksLzfWd584CoaD/
Please note that, in addition to registering for a ticket, you must also create a Whova account to log in to the event.
Event highlights
*10 panels featuring professionals in a broad range of careers, including pharmaceutical industry, academic careers, science policy, and more!
*Workshops to help you:

Navigate a Changing Job Market
Develop Job Search Skills
Plan for a Career Transition

Register today and log in to Whova to see the agenda and growing speaker list! We hope to see you at the event in November!
Additional links
NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education – https://www.training.nih.gov
Upcoming Events – https://www.training.nih.gov/events/upcoming
Career Services Advice and Appointments – https://www.training.nih.gov/career_services
NIH Alumni Database, Explore for your career options & Register as you leave –
https://www.training.nih.gov/alumni/register

Italy Trek Info Session
2025-11-18 16:30 - 17:30 | Online
During spring break 2026 (March 28– April 4), the Smith Family Business Initiative will be leading a student trek to Italy to explore numerous significant family businesses, Italian history, and culture.
Join them on November 18th for an informational meeting to learn more. This trek is open to ALL Cornell University graduate and PhD students.
Why Family Business?
Family-owned businesses dominate the economic landscape in the United States, are critically important drivers of the economy and, by most estimates, make up 70-90% of all businesses globally. These organizations span the economic spectrum from start-up to the largest and often oldest businesses in the world. Given the statistics, regardless of your background or career trajectory, it’s not a question of if you will work with a family enterprise but when and in what capacity. Educating our students about the unique advantages and challenges faced by family firms provides a fundamental knowledge base and is one of the many distinctive ways Cornell prepares graduates for successful futures.
Why Italy?
In Italy there are estimated to be around 784,000 family businesses – more than 85% of the total number of businesses – constituting around 70% of all employment. Italian family businesses are also set apart by their longevity: of the world’s 100 oldest businesses, 15 are Italian and, of these, 5 – Fonderie Pontificie Marinelli (founded in 1000), Barone Ricasoli (1141), Barovier & Toso (1295), Torrini (1369) and Marchesi Antinori (1385) – are among the top ten oldest family businesses still active today. Source: http://www.aidaf.it/en/aidaf-3/1650-2/
We look forward to seeing you on November 18th!
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Research Communication Workshop
2026-02-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Biotechnology Building, G01, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
Date and time: Tuesday February 10 @2-4pm
At the end of this Research Communication Workshop you should:

Be able to introduce yourself in an engaging and memorable way.
Recognize and develop strategies to explain jargon or complex topics.
Develop skills and confidence to communicate with a variety of audiences on a regular basis.
Use different storytelling approaches to communicate your research.
Identify one or more outlets to communicate your research (e.g. podcast, social media).
Develop an approach to start your talk and engage your audience immediately.

Open to: Doctoral students and Postdoctoral Scholars in any discipline interested in improving their research presentation skills to a wide variety of audiences.
Facilitators: Cynthia Leifer and Susi Varvayanis
Location: Biotech Building G01
To register: Please fill out this Qualtrics link: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4NrWzYy9hEe4tro
