eShip News – December 2021
Director's Note: Keep progressing ahead We hope that you are having a wonderful holiday season despite the current CC (yes, that would be Covid Craziness). As I am sure you have heard by now, Cornell and Tompkins County are in the middle of the CC storm, but I am hoping that we can all keep [...]
eShip News – November 2021
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 [...]
eShip News – October 2021
Director's Note: Fall Festivities Happy Halloween!! And almost Happy Thanksgiving!! We are all geared up for Eclectic Convergence, which will be held live at Cornell Tech on November 12th. We will be live streaming as usual, but we are so looking forward to having a “large” live event in NYC. And the night prior to [...]
eShip News – September 2021
Director's Note: All fall things Fall is the season of many things! Pumpkins, Halloween, college soccer (Cornell’s men’s team is kicking butt!), beautiful foliage…..and lots of entrepreneurship! Our eLab teaching team just selected 20 teams to join its student business accelerator program for the 2021/2022 academic year and we are gearing up for the Big [...]
eShip News – August 2021
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 [...]
eShip News – July 2021
Director's Note: Enjoying Summer We cannot believe that “school” starts in less than a month! As you likely know, Cornell plans to be just about 100% live come this fall term, and we hope that our many international students will be able to get back to Ithaca! The Delta variant is a bit unpredictable, but [...]
eShip News – June 2021
Director's Note: Not so lazy days of summer June wrapped up with 2 featured speakers on our CEN/EaC produced webinar series. You can check out the videos of Tammy Jones ’87 and John Noe ’99 here by scrolling to the bottom of the playlist. We will be resuming the webinars in late August! As we [...]
eShip News – May 2021
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 [...]
eShip News – April 2021
Director's Note: Spring has sprung As we wind down the semester, we typically expect a slow down on a number of fronts. But, honestly, that is just not happening! We just held our big Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration event with almost 1,000 registered. Celebration included our eLab Demo Day, the BenDaniel Venture Challenge, Student Business [...]
eShip News – March 2021
Director's Note: Spring has sprung This past week it hit at least 60 degrees every day, but of course next week it will probably snow! Regardless, it feels like we have turned a corner on many fronts, and hopefully the road ahead will be a bit smoother for everyone. Our big spring event is coming [...]
eShip News – February 2021
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 [...]