Newsletters

Director's Note: Celebrate! Here in Ithaca, we can feel spring right around the corner.  And there is a lot to celebrate!  The School of Human Ecology is celebrating its 100th anniversary and Cornell Tech is celebrating its 10th anniversary!  Our eLab students are getting ready to travel to San Francisco for a student startup pitch [...]

Director's Note: Happy Halloween! October was a big month for eship news!  We hope you enjoy all the features.  We are heads down focusing on the final Eclectic Convergence logistics and execution.  Hope to see you at Cornell Tech on November 15th for a great day of inspiring speakers and connecting with the Cornell eship [...]

Director's Note: Enjoy summer! Summer means lots of planning for Entrepreneurship at Cornell – budgeting, planning, new program discussion, etc.  But the news just keeps coming!  Enjoy the rest of your summer! -Zach Shulman '87, JD'90 Director, Entrepreneurship at Cornell $10M gift from Seneca Foods will support the Cornell Food Venture CenterArthur Wolcott ’49 went [...]

Director's Note: Entrepreneurship in sight Student course finals are in sight!  End of semester is in sight! And next year’s planning is in sight!  We will take a big breadth, but not a big pause.  Keep in touch, and if you are not already on the eship listserv, please join to stay up to speed [...]

Director's Note: Welcome Back! Students are back and slogging through the snow (and rain ☹).  Luckily, entrepreneurial activity is non-stop on our campuses – actually the volume is incredible.  Even though I am in the middle of Cornell’s eship ecosystem, I find the volume of activity incredible and inspirational!  One event I would to call [...]

Director's Note: Intense Energy Fall is always in entrepreneurially insane time of year for Cornell.  Students are back with intense energy.  Our listserv is blistering with messages.  We hold our annual eship kickoff event, which attracts over 300 attendees.  And, we are not stopping to take a breath. We hope to see many of you [...]

Director's Note: Springing forward as the semester ends We have much to be thankful for as we wind down the semester.  Lots of excited interns being placed through our internship program. Lots of cool end of the year competitions, like the NYS Business Plan Competition, in which many Cornell student-founded companies participate.  Lots of engaged [...]

Director's Note: Happy Holidays Happy Winter everyone!  Students are back, there is snow on the ground (not much), and things are hopping on campus.  Check out our new entrepreneurship course listing matrix, which is updated and much more functional, and also consider joining us for our annual entrepreneurship Celebration in April, where we will honor [...]

Director's Note: Thankful We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Gobble Gobble!!  And we hope that your holiday season is fantastic as well.  As the semester here winds down, we have much for which to be thankful. Super students chasing all sorts of entrepreneurial pursuits, dedicated faculty teaching and pushing them, and inspired alums [...]

Director's Note: Welcome Back! Freshman have moved in, fall semester started and our eship Kickoff event is next week on September 8th!  Every year a new burst of energy enters the Cornell ecosystem, and it is wonderful to see everyone back on campus conducting business pretty much as usual.  Speaking of business, we are super [...]

Director's Note: Best Wishes to Class of '22 Happy Summer 2022!  Cornell’s graduation is always on Memorial Day Weekend, and each year we see a wonderful group of entrepreneurs leaving Cornell to continue on their startup journeys. We will continue to support them (although not nearly as much as when they were students), but they [...]

Director's Note: Spring is ahead March is here finally, and hopefully the weather will start feeling like spring! If you have not already checked out the EaC Startup Cornell Podcast, take a listen here.  The latest episode features Rich Horgan ‘14, founder of Cure Rare Disease, a non-profit biotech company working to create individualized therapeutics [...]

Director's Note: Wrapping up November Happy holidays, everyone! As we enter December, students are heads down with wrapping up classes and heading into finals.  We hope that the holidays bring some stress relief for them!  We wrapped up our Eclectic Convergence conference in mid-November.  It was wonderful to utilize the new Verizon Conference Center at [...]

Director's Note: Welcome Back Students arrived back to Cornell in August, and honestly, it is fabulous to see people on campus streets!  Even though we are definitely not quite back to normal (masks now required indoors and outdoors – hopefully that changes soon), seeing lots of students on campus adds a much needed energy boost [...]

Director's Note: Springing into emergence We hope that you all are having a wonderful spring, particularly as we emerge from the pandemic.  While we all face a bunch of uncertainty in how we emerge, it is great to see people on campus again and actually gathering in person! With Celebration 2021 behind us, we are [...]

Director's Note: Ithaca WINters We hope you are managing the polar vortex! Our thoughts go out to our friends down south who got a huge taste of Ithaca winter, but with no infrastructure to deal with it. Hang in there! Speaking of WINters, our students and young alumni are continuing to outperform on the startup [...]