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$2M gift to grow CATALYST Academy for minority students
May 11, 2021
The College of Engineering will grow the number of students it invites to its CATALYST Academy – a one-week summer program aimed at inspiring minority students to study engineering – thanks to a $2 million gift from Peter Wright ’75, MBA ’76.
The CATALYST Academy is for high school juniors and seniors who excel in math and science but may not have considered a STEM-related career path. Through the establishment of the Peter A. Wright CATALYST Fund, the academy will gradually grow its participants by approximately 25% while making it more accessible to low-income students. The program’s last cohort included 46 students.
President Martha E. Pollack presented Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, Cornell’s most generous donor, with a lifetime achievement award named in his honor during a virtual ceremony April 30.
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Dozens of oil tankers and commercial cargo ships line up at Great Bitter Lake to enter the Suez Canal in this early April satellite image provided by Ursa Space. Cosmos unveils space-tech business, science opportunities
April 27, 2021
With several forthcoming space missions, the acceleration of the satellite industry and more STEM opportunities for women and people of diverse cultures, the business prospects and scientific visions of the cosmos are just beginning to take off.
More than a dozen space industry leaders, capital investors, startup entrepreneurs, a Jet Propulsions Lab manager and Cornell professors gathered virtually for Cornell’s first Space Tech Industry Day/K.K. Wang Day symposium on April 23 – featuring this year’s event theme, “New Opportunities in Space Technology.”
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Gift establishes Fujikawa ’77 Endowment for Astronautical Engineering
Entrepreneur Steve Fujikawa ’77 has committed an eight-figure gift to aerospace engineering at Cornell, an investment that will strengthen the university’s status as a leader in space education and research.
The Stephen J. Fujikawa ’77 Endowment for Astronautical Engineering will be used for future investments in graduate fellowships, professorships and laboratory enhancements, with the ultimate goal of creating an institute for space technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.
The endowment will help grow Cornell’s roster of faculty with aerospace industry experience, creating new opportunities for technology translation and business partnerships. The endowment will also support the development of a space technology design lab and a spacecraft demonstration lab, adding to existing opportunities for students to engineer and test technologies such as satellites and sensors.