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Despite the challenges of the pandemic, Cornell has been extraordinarily productive in the past 17 months, President Martha E. Pollack said at her State of the University address March 26.

After honing her wine skills through eCornell classes, NASA engineer Rada Griffin launched Anissa Wakefield Wines, becoming the first certified Black woman winemaker in Alabama.

The Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration is the premier school for hospitality education in the world. As an integral part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, the school is leading the world in teaching and researching the business of hospitality—marketing, finance, real estate, operations, and more, all applied to the world’s largest and most exciting industry. Top faculty, industry leaders, alumni, and students work together to generate new knowledge ...

A historic $15 million gift from Joanne Knight in honor of her late husband, Charles “Chuck” Field Knight ’57, BME ’58, MBA ’59, has established the Charles Field Knight Deanship of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and provides the dean wit

Two graduates of the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration have co-founded a research-based cannabis company in Ithaca, which they hope will expand into one of upstate New York’s first boutique cannabis hotels.Cameron Wesle

UniFocus, the leading provider of Workforce Management Systems, is today proud to announce the donation of its labor management solutions as an educational resource for the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration.

In Kigali on October 27, 2021, Nice Uwase, wearing a traditional Rwandan mushanana dress, stood at the outdoor podium addressing her fellow classmates of the Cornell Hanga Ahazaza Program, emphasizing the magnitude of the opportunity and the achievem

The voluntary nature of online customer review platforms allow customers with strong opinions to self-select their own participation, resulting in an underreporting of bias. Because of this, when looking at online hotel and lodging reviews, consumers and even hotel management know to take stars, or lack thereof, with a grain of salt.

The global hotel construction pipeline has reached a record high, and consumers are asking developers and brands to consider sustainable construction and design initiatives. 82% of luxury travelers, for example, want to travel more sustainably in the future as a result of the ongoing pandemic, according to global travel agency Virtuoso.

For a large part of the pandemic, U.S. cruise operations were suspended by the Centers for Disease Control’s No Sail Order. Issued in October of 2020, and still in effect today, the Framework for Conditional Sailing replaced the No Sail Order and dictates the cruise industry’s phased reopening, which is currently underway.