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23 July 2025
Levelle Nutrition Earns Emerging Company Distinction from NBJ

Levelle Nutrition Earns Emerging Company Distinction from NBJ

Rev member Levelle Nutrition, founded by Dr. Linda Alvarez, M.D., and Stephanie Schrauth, has been awarded the 2025 Nutritional Business Journal Leadership & Growth Award in the Emerging Company category.   […]

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30 January 2025
W.E. Cornell Welcomes Seventh Cohort Under New Format

W.E. Cornell Welcomes Seventh Cohort Under New Format

W.E Cornell is dedicated to assisting STEM PhDs and postdocs in commercializing their innovations by providing the opportunity for positive collaboration and guidance.

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14 May 2024
Clean Energy Founder Details Her Entrepreneurship Journey

Clean Energy Founder Details Her Entrepreneurship Journey

Many innovators working in renewable energy and climate technology leverage entrepreneurship to maximize the impact of their work. Charlotte Hamilton ’95, MBA ’04, a lifelong entrepreneur and the CEO of […]

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28 February 2024
Climate Entrepreneur Shares Insight with Cornell Innovators

Climate Entrepreneur Shares Insight with Cornell Innovators

For innovators looking to make an impact with their climate technology research, entrepreneurship is a powerful tool. Climate tech startups like the carbon utilization company Carbon Upcycling advance climate solutions […]

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9 February 2024
W.E. Cornell welcomes sixth cohort of STEM innovators

W.E. Cornell welcomes sixth cohort of STEM innovators

W.E. Cornell aims to empower  STEM scholars to embrace their entrepreneurial ambition through a curriculum designed to help them commercialize their technology.   The program is run over the course of […]

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22 January 2024
With ‘Cramp Bites,’ student creates remedy to relieve period pain

With ‘Cramp Bites,’ student creates remedy to relieve period pain

An undergrad’s Middle Eastern-flavored snacks that aim to minimize menstrual cramps are now on sale at Cornell Health’s pharmacy and will be available in the spring at five Gimme! Coffee […]

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12 January 2024
PCCW grant helps support diverse student entrepreneurs

PCCW grant helps support diverse student entrepreneurs

A grant from the President’s Council for Cornell Women (PCCW) will help build on the robust set of resources of campus for Cornell student entrepreneurs.

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15 November 2023
Cornell Researcher Launches Startup with Community’s Support

Cornell Researcher Launches Startup with Community’s Support

by Sabrina Khaleque Cátia Dombaxe, who was raised in the Southern African country Angola, is now a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering at Cornell University. Her roots, along with her […]

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23 May 2023
Ogbemudia ’25 Builds Skincare Startup at Cornell

Ogbemudia ’25 Builds Skincare Startup at Cornell

When Osaiyekemwen (Ruth) Ogbemudia ’25 stepped onto Cornell’s campus her freshman year, she wasted no time getting involved with the university’s robust entrepreneurial ecosystem. In just two years, she has […]

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2 March 2023
W.E. Cornell Welcomes Fifth Cohort

W.E. Cornell Welcomes Fifth Cohort

W.E. Cornell is pleased to welcome 13 new STEM innovators to its Spring 2023 cohort.  Now training its fifth cohort, the W.E. Cornell program offers a proven entrepreneurship and leadership-focused […]

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23 February 2023
Students to develop their ideas for social change

Students to develop their ideas for social change

Alex Herazy ’25, a student in the College of Arts and Sciences, knows what the college application process is like for a first-generation student, so he’s been helping other first-gen […]

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9 February 2023
Forte Protein Joins Center for Life Science Ventures 

Forte Protein Joins Center for Life Science Ventures 

Forte Protein, a startup that has developed a technology to grow animal proteins inside plants, recently joined Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures business incubator. The startup was also in […]

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12 December 2022
Mycocycle Founder Speaks to W.E. Cohort

Mycocycle Founder Speaks to W.E. Cohort

The 2022 W.E. Cornell cohort celebrated the end of the semester on December 2 with a presentation from Joanne Rodriguez, founder and CEO of Mycocycle, a startup developing a process […]

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1 December 2022
Alum Shares Biotech Expertise with Entrepreneurial Community

Alum Shares Biotech Expertise with Entrepreneurial Community

Entrepreneurship allows biotechnology researchers to help people by bringing their innovations out of the lab and into the market. However, this process tends to be expensive and lengthy — not […]

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27 September 2022
Members of Cornell Community Featured in Entrepreneurship Article

Members of Cornell Community Featured in Entrepreneurship Article

Several members of the Cornell community recently contributed to “Think You’re Not an Entrepreneur? Think Again,” a piece published by the Association for Women in Science on how entrepreneurial skills […]

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6 June 2022
Cornellian-led startup aids parents amid formula shortage

Cornellian-led startup aids parents amid formula shortage

With a background in health care and a startup focused on baby feeding, Andrea Ippolito feels like she’s been training for this moment her whole life.

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21 March 2022
2022 W.E. Cornell cohort celebrates STEM innovation

2022 W.E. Cornell cohort celebrates STEM innovation

Women Entrepreneurs (W.E.) Cornell is excited to introduce the newest cohort of STEM scholars working to commercialize their research and innovations.   Created in 2019 to support women-identifying STEM students as […]

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25 January 2022
Xu Liu is Homeward Bound—for Antarctica

Xu Liu is Homeward Bound—for Antarctica

Xu Liu grew up in the city of Qufu, in a coal-mining region of China’s Shandong Province. Her family has worked in the coal industry for three generations. This lifelong […]

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25 May 2021
Info sci student’s startup seeks to elevate Black businesses

Info sci student’s startup seeks to elevate Black businesses

Founding and building a startup company into a sustainable, profit-generating business takes guts, determination and resilience.

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25 May 2021
New Moms Can Fix the Entrepreneurship Gender Diversity Gap, If We Help Them

New Moms Can Fix the Entrepreneurship Gender Diversity Gap, If We Help Them

W.E. Cornell Program Lead, Andrea Ippolito, shares insight into how to increase the number of female entrepreneurs and the support needed for women and mothers.

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19 April 2021
Program will support diverse founders of climate tech startups

Program will support diverse founders of climate tech startups

As the cleantech industry continues to expand and evolve, a new program and partnership based in New York’s Southern Tier region aims to advance diversity and inclusivity in the growing […]

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11 March 2021
W.E. Cornell program takes on inequity in entrepreneurship

W.E. Cornell program takes on inequity in entrepreneurship

The W.E. Cornell program, which aims to improve gender representation in entrepreneurship, is launching its spring cohort as industries reckon with the inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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21 January 2020
Ippolito Testified Before Congress to Support Diverse Innovators

Ippolito Testified Before Congress to Support Diverse Innovators

Andrea Ippolito ‘06, M.Eng. ’07, testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business on January, 15, 2020, and shared six policy recommendations to push for […]

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30 August 2019
Programs empower underrepresented student entrepreneurs

Programs empower underrepresented student entrepreneurs

When Andrea Ippolito ’06, M.Eng. ’07, returned to Cornell in 2017 as executive director of Cornell’s Engineering Management Program, she made it her mission to engage underrepresented entrepreneurs. Last year, within […]

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13 November 2018
22 student entrepreneurs join W.E. Cornell

22 student entrepreneurs join W.E. Cornell

Cornell’s new entrepreneurship program, W.E. (women entrepreneurs) Cornell, recently announced its first cohort of students for the 2018-19 academic year. 

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6 September 2018
W.E. Cornell program focuses on women in STEM

W.E. Cornell program focuses on women in STEM

This fall, Ippolito will launch a new training program called W.E. (women entrepreneurs) Cornell, designed to address persistent underrepresentation of women entrepreneurs in STEM fields. 

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