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Cornell alumna: Lifelong learning, leading teams is key to women’s entrepreneurial success

Serial entrepreneur Shelly Porges ’74, MPS ’77, has followed one guiding principle throughout her successful career: If you become a lifelong learner, opportunities will come your way.

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Tata-Cornell celebrates 5 years of fighting hunger in India

Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) highlighted its community-based fieldwork, where graduate students work towards uncovering failures in food systems and empowering communities to solve them.

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GRASSHOPR connects Dyson graduate students with K–12 classrooms

This year I’ve been one of the lucky graduate students to participate in GRASSHOPR, which provides a way for Cornell graduate students to share their knowledge with local grade schoolers.

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Dyson community celebrates students, faculty, and staff at awards ceremony

Students, faculty, and staff gathered on Friday, April 27, 2018, for an awards ceremony in recognition of some of the many excellent contributions during the 2017–2018 academic year.

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Quick Q & A: Jawad Addoum

Father, basketball fan, and passionate about finance—learn a little more about Jawad Addoum, assistant professor of finance at the Dyson School.

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Business minor teaches important skills for life sciences, pre-med undergraduates

According to Robert Karpman, MD, MBA, and director of the Dyson Business Minor for Life Sciences Majors, if you’re planning on a career in medicine, there is one subject you need to study on top of anatomy, biochemistry, and physics—business.

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New rules on making cars in China could help Tesla – or give it even more to worry about

Shanjun Li, professor of economics and policy at the Dyson School, contextualizes technological advancements of Chinese domestic automakers and its relation to the recent announcement by the Chinese government.

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Steven Kyle breaks down Trump’s economic policies and their impact on taxpayers

Steven Kyle, associate professor at the Dyson School, speaks to CGTN America about President Donald Trump’s economic policies.

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2018’s rising stars of real estate

Michael Lee, Dyson ’11, is a rising star at financial advisory firm HKS Capital Partners. Read more about what makes this Cornelian an up-and-comer worth keeping an eye on, according to Real Estate Weekly.