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Report co-authored by Johnson Dean Soumitra Dutta highlights the intersection between business and technology in global competitiveness ITHACA, N.Y., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Economic Forum today released the results of the 2013 Global Information Technology Report (GITR), that examines the extent to which 144 economies take advantage of Information and communication technologies (ICT) to increase economic growth and well-being. The report is a...

ITHACA, N.Y., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- eCornell and Cornell University announce today the launch of a free online course focused on training hospitality professionals in the new media marketing skills needed for professional success. Marketing the Hospitality Brand through New Media: Social, Mobile & Search is the first online course focused on this topic and uniquely combines the most effective elements of a world-class Ivy League classroom with the flexibility of an...

Dr. Philip Stieg, Chairman of the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center, a Board Certified New York, NY physician specializing in Neurological Surgery, has been selected by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. for inclusion in its authoritative guide to the top primary care and specialty care doctors in the tri-state metropolitan New York area. NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., America's trusted source for identifying Top Doctors, has published...

A recent study initiated by Haines Publishing shows that 63% of residents in Tompkins County use the print yellow pages first when looking for local business information. Tompkins County, NY (PRWEB) September 02, 2012 A recent study shows that 63% of residents in Tompkins County use the print yellow pages first when looking for local business information. Residents were asked if they used their local yellow pages or the internet first when searching for a local business. The study showed...

LOS ANGELES, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- DREAM 2010 concert benefiting the Fulfillment Fund will take place on Monday, May 3, 2010 at the famed Roxy Theatre on Sunset Boulevard. The concert features a special acoustic performance by legendary rock musician Chris Cornell, singer, songwriter and lyricist for Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and Audioslave. Dream 2010 pays tribute to Fulfillment Fund students who have beaten all odds to become college graduates and raises critical dollars to...

First collaboration of its kind yields recommendations for updates that will cut energy bill by 30 percent GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Sodexo, a leading integrated services company providing food service and facilities management on 600 campuses in the United States, joined with a group of sustainability-minded Ithaca College students in upstate New York to cook up a plan to chop the energy bill by 30 percent and slice the kitchen carbon footprint by 26 percent by switching to...

Student-run venture fund expands its portfolio into sentiment analysis ITHACA, N.Y., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- BR Ventures (BRV), an MBA student-run, early stage venture fund of the Johnson School at Cornell University, today announced that it has invested in Jodange, an emerging, visionary technology leader in sentiment and opinion analysis. The completion of the Series A round will aid Jodange as it continues to capture market share with its best-in-class technology. (Logo:...

Women tend to choose non-math-intensive fields for their careers -- not because they lack mathematical ability, but because they want flexibility to raise children or prefer less math-intensive fields of science, reports a new Cornell study."A major reason explaining why women are underrepresented not only in math-intensive fields but also in senior leadership positions in most fields is that many women choose to have children, and the timing of child rearing coincides with the most...

DRYDEN, N.Y., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. today announced a contract with Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) to support its "Mobile TC3" initiative, which provides discounted packages of wireless plans and devices that are tailored to college life. Under the contract, TC3 will use AT&T's network services and discounted plans to help expand the value and feature set of its Mobile TC3 initiative with the goal of reducing management cost and complexity. Rave Wireless will...

By Anonymous Ithaca, New York Ithaca College began a campus composting program in 1993 as a means to divert food scraps. The program became a service offered by the Facilities Department, but was only tangentially connected to the college's educational mission, because it is not an agricultural school, explains Mark Darling, Ithaca College's Program Coordinator for the Recycling/Resource Management division. "The primary reason for closing our facility was the opening of Cayuga Compost,"...