Welcome from President Skorton

It's great to greet all of you from the Cornell Silicon Valley (CSV) website. In the short time that my wife, Robin Davisson (professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine and in the Weill Medical College), and I have been in Ithaca, we've come to appreciate the vital connection between faculty and students on Cornell's campuses and Cornell alumni around the world. Those connections are especially dynamic in the Bay Area, where the Cornell Silicon Valley Program fosters collaborations among Cornellians that transcend geographical distances and disciplinary boundaries. Read more.

Events

• Start-up Leaders Private Dinner, facilitated by John Nesheim, MBA '67
  Tuesday, April 1, 2008, Menlo Park, CA 6:00pm - 9:00pm
• CSV9: From Bench to Bedside the 9th Annual Cornell Silicon Valley Presidential Event
  An event for alumni, parents, and friends of Cornell University
  Tuesday April 8 2008, Crowne Plaza Cabana 4290 El Camino, Real Palo Alto CA,
  2:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.
  Download the .pdf event invitation
  Registration will begin on March 8th
• CEN Northern California in parternership with CSV present: "Without a Net"
  Tuesday April 15, 2008, Palo Alto, CA 6:00pm - 9:00pm
• Social Networking: "Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network and how it can affect your life"
  Thursday, April 17, 2008, Sunnyvale, CA 6:00pm - 9:00pm
• Climate Change and Global Warming: The Evolving Legal Framework
  Tuesday, April 29, 2008, Palo Alto, CA 7:00pm - 8:00pm
• Winepreneurs: Cornellians in Wine
  Thursday, May 15, 2008, San Francisco, CA 4:00pm - 9:00pm
• Northern California Women in Technology and Science Luncheon Series
  Wednesday, June 4, 2008, Palo Alto, CA 12:00pm - 1:30pm

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News

• Newsweek calls Cornell the Hottest Ivy

• Cornell's 'Any person ... any study' named best college motto

• American Campuses Get Greener Than Ever

• Google will digitize Cornell Library volumes for its book search

• Creative Writing Program named among top 10 in nation
• India's Ratan Tata '59 featured in Business Week
• Johnson School faculty Stuart Hart in Business Week
  
• Economics Professor Robert H. Frank's new book reviewed in the New York Times
• Island location makes Shoals an ideal case study in sustainability -- from wind power to composting
• David Pritchard '75, CEO of KaloBios Pharmaceuticals in Palo Alto, is betting on the buzz for human anitbody therapeutics.
  

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