SYRACUSE, New York, Nov. 15 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: Bestselling author and Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks began his talk at Syracuse University by asking the audience of hundreds a simple question: "What is happiness?" Then he shared that when he poses that question in his classes, hardly anyone raises their hand. When he calls on students, they inevitably describe the feeling they have when around family or when doing something they like, he said. Brooks tells t  more

ITHACA, New York, Nov. 17 -- Cornell University issued the following news: The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Lloyd Robinson '87, president and owner of Awisco, a family-owned welding business started in 1952. With 10 locations across the New York metro area and a sales presence in South Florida, Lloyd has led the company through lots of changes and has hosted Cornell interns for more than 20 summers. Lloyd graduated from the ILR Sc  more

ALBANY, New York, Nov. 17 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release on Nov. 16, 2024: NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced that 103 firearms were turned in at a community gun buyback event in Peekskill hosted by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) and the New York State Police, Peekskill Police Department, Westchester District Attorney's Office, and the Peekskill chapter of the NAACP. This event was part of Attorney General J  more

ITHACA, New York, Nov. 15 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have determined the full-length structure of a blood pressure-regulating hormone receptor for the first time, uncovering how it functions, which may enable better drug targeting of the receptor for diseases such as hypertension and heart failure. For the study, published Nov. 14 in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, the researchers used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), computer   more

SYRACUSE, New York, Nov. 15 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: The Martin J. Whitman School of Management moved up to No. 13 in the country for its undergraduate business program in The Princeton Review's Top 50 Undergraduate and Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship rankings. "This rise in the rankings is proof positive of the Whitman School's continuing commitment to providing innovative programs in entrepreneurship at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Our success has  more