Books Your January 2025 Reads This month’s featured titles include a work of nonfiction about honeybees, a kids’ picture book, and a novel set in rural Nova Scotia
Campus & Beyond Ready, Set … Count! Popular Annual Birding Event Aids Research Held each February, the Lab of Ornithology’s Great Backyard Bird Count unites fans of feathered friends—worldwide
Alumni Prolific Cartoonist Finds Humor in—Well, Pretty Much Everything Decades after launching her first comic strip in the Daily Sun, Ali Solomon ’01 has her work published in the New Yorker and beyond
Alumni Alum Helps Protect Wildlife—By Connecting Their Habitats Gary Tabor ’81 is a leader in large landscape conservation, which mitigates the human encroachment that threatens animal life
Alumni Is This Alum’s Clothing Firm Thriving? Ewe Betcha! Mac Bishop ’11 is founder and CEO of Wool & Prince, which makes apparel—from dress shirts to underwear—out of fine merino wool
Alumni After Three Decades, Big Red Men’s Ice Hockey Passes the Torch As Mike Schafer ’86 prepares to retire, he and successor Casey Jones ’90 chat about their love of the game, Lynah pride, and more
Storytime with Corey What’s the Weather Going to Be? Check the Signal Pole! Cornellians have long known the joys of ‘Ithacation’—and earlier generations got their forecasts the old-fashioned way
Cornelliana ‘Good Health, Tempered Courage, and Sound Common Sense’ Those are the gifts that fate gave Ezra Cornell, per one historian. Here’s a look at his life—from humble beginnings to great wealth
Chime In The ‘Marvelous, Turbulent Times’ When a Literary Magazine Was Born A fellow alum’s passing sparked vivid memories of launching the Cornell Review, a cutting-edge journal of ideas, in the late 1970s
Alumni Remembering Peter Yarrow ’59, Whose Love of Folk Grew on the Hill The music great was motivated by a legendary Cornell course—and a fellow alum’s poem inspired one of his classic songs