Cornell University’s oldest senior honor society has three new honorary members, including a prominent professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
Deborah Streeter, the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management, was recently inducted into the Sphinx Head Society, joining Eduardo M. Penalver, the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School, and alumnus Martin F Scheinman, founder of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations, as the newest honorary members.
Sphinx Head, founded in 1890, is the oldest senior honor society at Cornell. Each year the society inducts select members of the junior and senior class who have distinguished themselves in leadership and service to the university. The society boasts a membership of about 2,000 Cornell graduates.
The society also taps Cornell administrators, faculty, staff, and alumni as honorary members. Criteria for the honor include leadership experience, distinguished service to the university, and a commitment to undergraduate student life and development.
“It is an honor to be part of the Sphinx Head Society and its service-oriented mission,“ Streeter said.
Along with her teaching and research focus on entrepreneurship and small business management, she also oversees the Dyson Business Minor for Engineering and the university-wide Business Minor.
Her distinguished teaching has earned her numerous awards, including the 2010 MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources, the 2007 Olympus Innovative Educator Award, and in 2000 was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.
She is a member of a university-wide Entrepreneurship@Cornell program, and leads the Entrepreneurship@Dyson program. A major project of Streeter’s has been the development of Cornell’s eClips, the world’s largest curated collection of digital video clips on entrepreneurship, business and leadership.
In 2004, Streeter went through the technology commercialization process and founded Prendismo, a company focused on digital media and knowledge management.
