Great Gourds! CALS Alum Grows Gigantic Pumpkins At his Connecticut nursery, Alex Noel ’13 nurtures specimens so big, you could use them as a boat (and some people do)
Annual Alumni Wine Collection Celebrates the Empire State The three offerings for 2024—the program’s seventh year—all hail from New York, spanning from Lake Erie to Long Island
Doctoral Alum Wins Nobel Prize in Physics Princeton prof John Hopfield, PhD ’58, was honored for foundational work in training artificial neural networks
Author Alum Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Ling Ma, MFA ’16, has earned raves for her fiction; a Cornell Tech prof also received one of the coveted fellowships
Indie Drama Depicts Cornellian Couple’s Role in Web History Set in the 1980s, The Man Who Saved the Internet with a Sunflower chronicles two ’69 classmates in Silicon Valley
Sisters’ Product Is a Hit (with a Cherry on Top) The CALS alums—one a comm major, the other a food scientist—teamed up to launch a line of flavored whipped creams
Hotelie’s Granola Goes from Dorm Delicacy to Grocery Staple Infused with novel flavors—including rosemary, matcha, chai, and even black truffle—the brand is a hit at Whole Foods and beyond
Digital Artist Dreams His Creations in Pixels and Neurons An architecture and computer graphics alum returned to the Hill this summer to draw images from landscapes—and memories
Bravo to the Big Red Athletics Hall of Fame, Class of 2024! Eleven Cornellians are being honored for contributions to sports from hockey (both on field and ice) to track to basketball
Better Living Through Landscape Architecture Through decades of park design, Michael Van Valkenburgh ’73 connects urban communities with nature