A yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration kicked off at the 97th annual Hotel Ezra Cornell, the school’s signature student-run conference and hospitality event, which was held April 21-24.
The pandemic has exacerbated inequalities in the international fishing industry, according to a new report from Cornell University researchers and the International Labour Organization (ILO), who presented their findings at a virtual webinar April 27.
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Ochsner Health, Louisiana’s leading healthcare system, partnered with Trax Development on a joint venture to create SafeSource Direct, making it the only U.S. provider-owned PPE manufacturer with U.S. provider-owned quality control.
Ann R. Stroink, MD, FAANS, has been named president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Stroink is a board-board certified neurosurgeon based in Illinois and will serve as the organization's president for the next 12 months.
American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Names Anthony L. Asher, MD, FAANS, as the organization’s president-elect. The Charlotte-based neurosurgeon will serve as president-elect of the association for the next 12 months.
Companies incorporated in tax havens are often considered more opaque regarding their finances, which could make them risky investments. But a recent study finds that many of these companies are actually more transparent than their counterparts in countries that are not tax havens.
It’s been 50 years since the Tuskegee Study was disclosed to the American public. In May, a new riveting account of the Study, when government doctors intentionally withheld effective therapy for syphilis for 40 years in 400 African American men, will be published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The article explains the deeper everlasting lessons of the study.
Dr. Gunther Eysenbach, founder and CEO of JMIR Publications, says,
“Asian / Pacific Island Nursing Journal is an important addition to what we can offer as a publisher. I am thrilled to support the important voices and issues highlighted in the journal, and look forward to working with the Editor-in-Chief and editorial board to propel the title to the forefront of research on health disparities in minority patients.”
Why do small businesses exploit business opportunities better in some areas than others? Maryland Smith researchers show that local social capital (trust, cooperation level among residents) strongly predicts loan uptake after controlling for close-by bank branches, income and education.
Exam data from 3 million proctored exams show 13x more test rule violations in 2021 compared with 15 months prior to the pandemic surge to online learning and testing.
PAIR-UP has received additional funding of $675,000 over three years from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to include dedicated postdoctoral fellows to guide three of the five research teams, also known as Peer Imaging Clusters (PICs).
While digital platforms like Uber continue to proliferate and expand the gig economy into new sectors of work, new Cornell University research shows some industries, such as live music, have structural features that keep them from adapting well to online platforms.
All five hospitals within Henry Ford Health have been recognized as an "LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader" by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) in its 2022 Healthcare Equality Index, which is a tool that evaluates healthcare facilities on policies and practices dedicated to the equitable treatment and inclusion of their LGBTQ+ patients, visitors and employees.
When U.S. couples have their first child, mothers’ earnings still drop substantially relative to fathers’, and new Cornell University research demonstrates the stubborn, decades-old pattern isn’t changing despite broad increases in other aspects of gender equality.
Plan P is offering institutional, departmental, and individual memberships to academic institutions, departments, funders, and individual researchers that enable them to receive a rapid peer-review of a preprint from a Plan P partner journal or from an independent peer-review service like PeerRef. As multisided platform and matchmaker sitting between preprint servers, peer-review services, and journals, Plan P offers a true transformation to open access and open science, while supporting traditional journals and journal publication pathways. For publishers, Plan P is providing tools to supplement traditional manuscript submission workflows with an editorial prospecting platform.
“The Great Resignation: How Analytics Can Help,” the 11th annual Conference on Human Capital Innovation in Technology & Analytics, co-sponsored by Johnson & Johnson and Accenture, will examine the role of data analytics in tackling the current challenges of critical shortages in the workforce resulting from record numbers of workers leaving their jobs.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) today announced the establishment of The Starr Foundation Program for Discovery Science, a pioneering new initiative made possible by a generous $50 million gift from The Starr Foundation.
Variable work schedules – which employers increasingly use to maximize profits amid unpredictable market conditions – can actually undermine organizational performance, especially in crisis periods such as the pandemic, according to Cornell University research.
An initiative that helps businesses transform New Mexico national laboratories’ technologies into viable products and services will continue driving innovations to market into 2027.
New research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that innovative business models that tap into extra warehouse space can be a potential solution for companies with changing demand requirements or tight fulfillment windows.
The Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University announced it has received a record setting donation from a faculty member, which will establish the Gill-Lebovic Center for Community Health in the Caribbean and Latin America. The gift, from Holly Gill and her husband, GW political science professor James Lebovic, will work to improve health outcomes, focusing on the region’s most vulnerable and marginalized groups, including women and families, mobile and migrant populations, and impoverished communities.
Lawrence H. Summers will be the keynote speaker at the Kellogg School of Management’s 8th annual Real Estate Conference and Venture Competition, to be held in-person and virtually on April 20 at the Kellogg Global Hub.
Health IT expert Ritu Agarwal at the University of Maryland describes three paths for medical students and physician-scientists toward health equity in terms of race, gender, ethnicity, geographic location and income.
A new study finds companies that are more aggressive in their tax planning tend to do a worse job of managing their workforce. Specifically, these companies were more likely to be “underemployed,” meaning they hadn’t hired enough staff to operate efficiently.
Cornell College and the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University are teaming up in a new partnership that streamlines the acceptance process for Cornell students interested in enrolling in one of three Ivy master’s programs offered.
Professional investors shouldn’t ignore the performance of terminated fund managers – the “non-decisions” – when developing confidence in their strategies, says Cornell University’s Scott Stewart.
Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business will present the 25th Annual Burkenroad Reports Investment Conference on Friday, April 29, at the Westin Hotel in New Orleans. The annual event gives institutional investors and members of the public an opportunity to hear presentations from executives from public companies headquartered in six Southern states.
The American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine today unveiled its new website—www.sportsmed.org—a dynamic and modern website experience combining state-of-the-art technology with enhanced functionality that will improve access to sports medicine research and information.
Indiana University will further develop a new technology for a combination oral rotavirus-norovirus vaccine for infants, thanks to a $1.2 million grant from venture capital firm GIVAX Inc.
Cancer researcher Elana Fertig, Ph.D., has been elected by her peers as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., representing the most accomplished individuals in the fields of medical and biological engineering.
More energetic commercials are likely to be tuned in more or avoided less by viewers, according to research from Joonhyuk Yang, assistant professor of marketing at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
Institutional investors in private equity are getting shortchanged, says Jeff Hooke, a Johns Hopkins Carey Business School senior lecturer and expert in finance and investment banking.
Two of the nation’s most respected research institutions have closed their transaction that adds a Florida powerhouse meant to accelerate the pace of biomedical discoveries that benefit patients.