For This Alumni Couple, Acts of Kindness Are the Best Holiday Décor Beth Dessen Duffy ’82 and Dan Duffy ’82 have parlayed a family tradition into a multimedia project, adorning trees with good deeds
In Asheville, Chef Katie Button ’05 Serves Up Hope After Helene Her popular restaurant reopened just weeks after devastating floods in the region—and now, she’s helping her community rebuild
Bells Are Ringing for This Veteran Chimesmaster The group’s advisor for nearly a quarter-century, Jennifer Courtley Lory-Moran ’96, MAT ’97, recently marked a carillon milestone
Couple Flocks Together—Running the Lab of Ornithology’s Gift Shop Lorraine DeLorenzo Treacy ’81 and Dave Treacy ’81, MEng ’82, returned to the Hill as Wild Birds Unlimited franchisees
What Makes a Beautiful Campus Even Prettier? Hydrangeas! Nurseryman Jim Sollecito ’76 has given his alma mater 1,000+ plants—a gift to students, inspired by his late Cornellian daughter
Alum’s Nonprofit Promotes Indigenous Sisterhood With ‘Rematriation,’ Michelle Schenandoah ’99 aims to bring the Indigenous community together through events and education
How an Afghan Grad Student Made It to the Hill After a Fulbright fell through, Hussain Ahmad Mohammad, MEng ’23, got a helping hand from Big Red faculty
Alum Thanks His Chemistry Professor—40 Years Later A program typically geared toward current students offered a way for Jeff Fearn ’82 to connect with Nobelist Roald Hoffmann
He Couldn’t Find a Kids’ Book about Ithaca—So He Wrote One Dave Walden, MBA ’10, tapped his daughter to help pen a lively volume that takes two young travelers to Collegetown, hockey games, state parks, and more
Dancing with the (Collegiate) Stars Amanda Hernandez ’21, now a busy med student, coaches her former team to ‘pom’ glory—from hundreds of miles away