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Cynthia Cuffie and Lorette Simon Gross

Cuffie and Simon Gross begin new term as alumni-elected trustees

Cynthia Cuffie ’74 and Lorette Simon Gross ’89, MBA ’90 were chosen by alumni in spring 2019 to serve four-year terms as members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees … Read more

By Kate Blackwood September 30, 2019
Ingrid Zabel ’87 on the Greenland ice sheet during the summer of 1993. Zabel was one of eight researchers who worked at this site. This communal tent is where the team cooked, ate, and worked.

Alumna writes go-to guide for teaching climate change

Ingrid Zabel ’87 is Climate Change Education Manager for the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), a small but mighty presence situated across Cayuga Lake from Cornell. The Ithaca-based institution is nationally recognized for … Read more

By Linda Copman September 20, 2019
Toni Morrison

Literary icon Toni Morrison MA ’55 dies at 88

Nobel Prize-winning author and alumna Toni Morrison MA ’55 died Monday, Aug. 5, in New York City. She was 88. She wrote 11 novels that explored and illuminated the black … Read more

By AAD Staff August 12, 2019
Elizabeth Bauman in the Kitchen Theater

Alumna’s musical puts human stories of Hurricane Katrina on stage

Elizabeth Bauman ’73 remembers the intense, shocking news coverage of Hurricane Katrina, the devastating storm that hit parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida in August 2005. The hurricane and subsequent … Read more

By AAD Staff July 31, 2019
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Cornellians in Paris: A love story

It’s six-thirty a.m. in Paris in May. Angelica Allen-McMillan ’91 and Randy McMillan ’92 join hands in the shelter of an elevated track. The steel beams supporting the train echo … Read more

By Kate Blackwood July 31, 2019
John Galinato '66 sits in the Build It Yourself workshop surrounded by tools, puppets, and contraptions.

Build It Yourself: Cornell-educated makers teach the next generation

In the press of bodies and booths at Cornell’s University Career Fair Days in Barton Hall, one employer display stood out to Sixia Chen MEng ’18: Build It Yourself, an … Read more

By Kate Blackwood July 17, 2019
Terri Port at the Class of 1984 35th Reunion in 2019.

Terri Port ’84 helps first-generation students succeed

Terri Port was the first person in her family to leave home to attend college. Her hometown of Hanover, Massachusetts had only 8,000 people, so the size of Cornell was … Read more

By Linda Copman July 11, 2019

Meet your new trustees, elected in 2019

By Kate Blackwood June 19, 2019
A humpback whale calf surfaces in Hawaii.

Alumni-faculty collaboration showcases creativity of whale songs

Like many music-obsessed teenagers in the 1990s, Annie Lewandowski liked to make mix tapes for her friends. However, most teenagers probably didn’t intersperse pop anthems with whale songs. “I was talking to … Read more

By AAD Staff June 18, 2019
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Cornellians growing tourism in the Finger Lakes

Ithaca is a special place. This fact is much appreciated by Cornell alumni, who consistently cite the natural beauty of campus, town, and Finger Lakes region as a top reason … Read more

By Kate Blackwood June 18, 2019
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