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Creative tourism plan fosters forest protection, economic growth in Puerto Rico
The U.S. Forest Service and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise shape sustainable tourism for El Yunque National Forest after recent natural disasters.
Featured stories
Experts spotlight financial strategies to advance sustainability
Financial strategies can advance sustainability, if environmental trade-offs can be measured and incorporated into decisions, experts said at Climate Week NYC 2026.
What’s keeping schoolchildren from eating local foods?
Bottlenecks and tradeoffs in food procurement pathways shared in a new USDA report and at Climate Week NYC.
Can AI boost open-mindedness? Team wins $1.49M grant to find out
The project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, investigates artificial intelligence from both a psychological and a philosophical perspective.
Executives reshaping hospitality to speak on campus
At the fall 2026 Nolan School Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series, executives share expertise in food and beverage, real estate, AI, resorts and more.
Big Red in the Big Apple
Every day in New York City, opportunities appear in subway cars, classrooms and skyscrapers. Cornell students seize these chances to learn, grow and reinvent themselves.
Business research
What ‘healthy’ labeling on packaged food conceals
Looking for nutritious foods in the grocery store? Don't believe everything you read.
Developing lower-performing employees may annoy the go-getters
With limited training funds, bosses must choose whether high or low performers get advanced skills — a decision research shows depends on workplace fairness norms.
Line managers as the linchpin in implementing corporate HR standards
Tashlin Lakhani, Nolan School professor, finds line managers are pivotal in ensuring corporate HR standard compliance at fast food franchises.
AI-enabled method enhances marketing research
BRIDGE leverages AI to provide real-world product descriptions controlled for a research setting.
Around the college
Podcast celebrates Cornell earning #4 ranking in entrepreneurship
This Startup Cornell podcast featured a conversation between two campus leaders of Cornell's entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Hotelie returns library book — half a century after he borrowed it
Better late than never, a Hotelie mailed a beloved work of philosophy back to his alma mater.
Stephen Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, trustee emeritus and CALS benefactor, dies at 86
Ashley, a Johnson School alum, served on the Cornell University Council, the Cornell Board of Trustees and the Dyson School advisory council.
Remember going to Triphammer Marketplace? Two alums bought it
Two married alums, one a Dyson School grad, plan improvements to the venerable shopping center near campus in Lansing.