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Researchers find grocery taxes harm low income households
Professor Harry Kaiser and his co-authors research the connection between grocery taxes and food insecurity in the United States.

Investing at Cornell theme launches campus-wide Investing Ideas Forum
Five teams participated in Investing at Cornell’s first Investment Ideas Forum, including undergraduate and graduate students from across Cornell.

Learning From COVID-19: Addressing impacts in Dyson’s curriculum
Dyson faculty incorporated pandemic challenges into their curriculum, allowing students to keep pace with a business world in flux.

Dan Cane ’98 funds the Cane Entrepreneurship Scholars Program
Dan Cane ’98, who co-founded Blackboard when he was a student, has funded a new program to help student entrepreneurs achieve success.

Meet Andrew Karolyi, new dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Andrew Karolyi answers questions about himself as a leader, scholar, and teacher, as well as his outlook on the college and his own life in this Q&A.

China Puts Limits on Foreign Banks, Worrying Businesses
Dyson Professor Eswar Prasad tells the New York Times that China will eventually resume with opening up to foreign financial institutions.

Rapid global heating is hurting farm productivity, study finds
A study led by Professor Ariel Ortiz-Bobea shows that global farming productivity since the 1960s is 21% lower than it could have been without climate change.

Democrats Question Game-Like Trading Apps at House Hearing
“These online brokers use prompts, push notifications and other nudges for the purpose of eliciting a specific behavior: increased trading by the investor,” Professor Vicki Bogan said at the House Financial Services Committee Meeting on GameStop.

Students save man from frigid lake after fishing mishap
Anjan Mani ’23, a student at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, was among three students who saved a man from downing in a local frigid lake.