Alumni Once a Comp Lit Major, He’s Telling the Story of (Ultra-Fresh) Coffee Matthew Berk ’92, BA ’93, is the CEO of Bean Box, which sells the handiwork of small, local roasters to customers around the country
Bear Hugs With a Schoellkopf Wedding, Couple Says ‘I Do’—and ‘Touchdown!’ In what’s believed to be a first, a graduate alum and a Statler staffer tied the knot between quarters at a Big Red football game
Chime In Tech Should Bring Us Closer—and I Want to Fulfill that Promise Frustrated by the limits of screens, I co-founded a start-up that aims to connect family members across the miles
Campus & Beyond Big Red Football’s Homecoming Win Is One for the Record Books The 48-38 victory over Lehigh is Cornell’s first against a top-five opponent since 1939—and only the third in program history
In the President’s Words ‘The Challenges That We Must Rise to Meet’ In his State of the University speech, President Mike Kotlikoff addresses ‘one of the most difficult moments in Cornell’s 161 years’
Students Undergrad Researchers Fill a Data Gap on Local Prevalence of ‘PFAS’ The team took 500 samples across 300 bodies of water, including all 11 Finger Lakes and many tributaries, ponds, and even puddles
Books Your October 2026 Reads This month’s featured titles include a YA book on women in sports and an attorney’s rallying cry to temper justice with mercy
Alumni Sociologist Who Studies Climate Change Wins MacArthur Fellowship The doctoral alum, on the University at Buffalo faculty, garnered one of the coveted honors, known as ‘genius grants’
Bear Hugs Award-Winning New York Grower Is the Apple of Everyone’s Eye Tending his family’s two-century-old farm, second-generation CALS alum Bobby Brown ’06 has garnered his industry’s top honor
Alumni Meet the Veteran Broadcaster Who’s the Voice of MLB’s Colorado Rockies Although he played football for the Big Red, Jack Corrigan ’74 has been doing baseball play-by-play for more than four decades