Cornell Engineering Public Seminar and Discussion on "Academic Entrepreneurship: Creating Impact Beyond Publishing Papers." Stephen Quake, PhD, is Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at Stanford University, Co-President, Chan Zuckerberger Biohub, Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University, and has invented measurement tools for biology including new DNA sequencing technologies that enable rapid human genome analysis.…

We started Cornell ASAP's contribution to the NSPN 2020 Election Initiative with two meta-reviews: Regulating Genetic Modification Technology Outside Healthcare, and Coastal Flooding and Resilience. We modeled our efforts on NSPN's recently published reports, but there's still a long way to go! To that end, we have scheduled two additional events: Tuesday, 10/8 at 6-9…

Learn from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati about the nuts and bolts of University-based Startups. Join us for an overview and active discussion with deeply experienced professionals from Silicon Valley, hear their perspective on: Creating Business Plans Licensing University Technologies Raising Capital Speakers: Katharine "Kathy" Ku, Chief Licensing Advisor, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati -…

Calling all science communicators, recruitment for the 2020 ComSciCon-NY Organizing Committee is now underway! If you are interested in participating and/or receiving more information about the responsibilities, commitment, and event logistics an information session will be held on October 10th at 5pm. The information session will be held in 321 Weill Hall, Cornell University and…

The SGE Immersion Program in the Johnson School within the College of Business is now accepting applications from non-Johnson graduate students from any Cornell school/college/program through Friday, October 11th. Launched in 2006, the SGE Immersion program provides Cornell graduate students the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams on a project with companies and other organizations…

Emily Levitt (PhD 2018 Cornell, Anthropology) made the transition from academia to commercial consulting. In this workshop, she’ll provide an overview of how ethnography and other methods from the humanities are used today in commercial consulting, using case studies from her own career as examples. In addition, she’ll discuss some of the pitfalls and difficulties…