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Corporate Connections

Companies come to Cornell for many reasons:

  • Recruitment of outstanding students
  • State-of-the-art research
  • Access to world-class faculty
  • Partnerships in business and research
  • Research centers
  • Education programs to improve workforce competencies
  • Licensing intellectual properties

All these reasons, and more, add up to one objective: to improve competitive advantage.
Cornell is the largest and most comprehensive of the Ivy institutions, but it is also distinctive for its deep culture of interdisciplinary thinking and research, as well as its interest in working with companies. All of its corporate relations and outreach managers have business and industry experience.

Corporate Philanthropy

Today, companies value major research universities as important suppliers of talent, research, and ideas much as they value their suppliers of quality materials, components and services. Cutting edge research, high intellectual energy and well-educated students provide competitive advantage. Companies connect with Cornell University because they view it as a very important resource, and they invest in it to ensure that its future is secure.

Corporate gifts are most often provided in the form of cash, equipment, securities, or real estate. Funding is provided either direct from the company's giving program or through a company foundation.

Additional information

Contact

For general information and referrals, please contact:

Laura Toy
Associate Vice President
Alumni Affairs and Development
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Other Contacts

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Jennifer Drumluk
Director, Business Partnerships and Corporate Relations
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Roberts Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850
jmd229@cornell.edu

Business Management
Gail E. Fink
Director, Corporate Programs
Johnson Graduate School of Management
130 E Seneca St Suite 400
Ithaca, NY 14850-4353
607-255-9443
gef4@cornell.edu

Engineering
Abby B. Westervelt
Director, Corporate & Foundations Relations
College of Engineering
254 Carpenter Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-255-6135
abw4@cornell.edu

Computing and Information Sciences
Justine Schaffner
Director of Development and Corporate Relations
541 Rhodes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-254-8859
js536@cornell.edu

Hotel School
Joseph Strodel
Director, Corporate Relations
School of Hotel Administration
174 Statler Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-255-4646
js343@cornell.edu

Medicine
Franklin Roth
Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations
Weill Medical School of Cornell University
1300 York Ave.,
Box 314
New York, NY 10065
646.962.8540
frr2006@med.cornell.edu

Textiles & Apparel
Prof. Suzanne Loker
Textiles & Apparel
College of Human Ecology
326 Martha Van Rensselaer
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-255-6204
sl135@cornell.edu

Life Sciences
Roger Williams
Director, Technology Transfer
Center for Advanced Technology in Life Sciences Enterprise
130 Biotechnology Building
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-254-4815
rjw33@cornell.edu

Hospitality Research
Joseph Strodel
Managing Director
Center for Hospitality Research
School of Hotel Administration
535 Statler Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-255-4646
js343@cornell.edu

Human Resources
Pamela L. Stepp, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Center for Advanced Human Resource Services
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
187 Ives Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-254-4829
pls8@cornell.edu

Materials Research
Michele J. van de Walle
Director of Industrial Partnerships
Senior Research Associate
Cornell Center for Materials Research
701 Clark Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-255-8809
mjv28@cornell.edu

Nanotechnology
Lynn Rathbun, Ph.D
Senior Research Associate
Cornell Nano-Scale Facility
250 Duffield Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-254-4872
lcr2@cornell.edu

Nanobiotechnology
Graham S. Kerslick, Ph.D
Associate Director
Nanobiotechnology Center
350 Duffield Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-255-0629
gsk2@cornell.edu

Nanoscale Systems
Jurriaan Gerretsen, Ph.D
Associate Director
Center for Nanoscale Systems
624 Clark Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-254-8211
jg297@cornell.edu

Financial Research
Gail E. Fink
Director, Corporate Programs
Parker Center for Financial Research
Johnson Graduate School of Management
130 E. Seneca St. Suite 400
Ithaca, NY 14850-4353
607-255-9443
gef4@cornell.edu

Advanced Information Technologies and HPC
David A. Lifka, Ph.D.,
Director, Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing,
528 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca NY 14853-3801 
607-254-8621
lifka@cac.cornell.edu

Environment
Mark Bain
Director
Center for the Environment
Cornell University
200 Rice Hall
Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 U.S.A.
mark.bain@cornell.edu
Telephone: (607) 255-4750
Fax: (215) 701-1844
http://environment.cornell.edu

Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization
(Intellectual Property Management)
Melba Kuram
Manager, Outreach and Marketing
105 20 Thornwood Drive
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-257-1081
mk434@cornell.edu

Cornell Fuel Cell Institute
Paul Mutolo
Associate Director
204 Baker Lab
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-255-4928
pfm2@cornell.edu