With Mouth-Watering Dishes, Senior Is Already a Culinary Entrepreneur Boasting more than 100K Instagram followers, Maximo Mander ’26 is mining his Italian roots with a pop-up pasta restaurant
Back to School, Amid an Ithaca Chill Remember returning for spring semester? Revisit those days with photos of today’s students, in class and bundled up outside
Undergrad Entrepreneur Wants Fellow Students to Sleep in Comfort The Dyson School’s Will Conway ’27 founded Expand-A-Bed, whose toppers make dorm (and home!) mattresses wider and softer
Math Major Wins Silver in an Unlikely Sport: Chessboxing Will MacLeod ’26 medaled for Team USA at the 2025 world championships—a test of physical prowess and mental acumen
PhD Student Aims to Help Others with Speech Disabilities Tobias Weinberg is unable to talk; his research taps AI to pepper written conversations with asides, humor, and even sarcasm
Cool Beans: On the Hill, a Specialty Coffee House Pops Up Weekly A student-run club meets in Goldwin Smith to brew, sip, and discuss their devotion to all things java-related
Undergrad’s Start-Up Lets You ‘Hear’ through its Eyeglasses The company makes a smart accessory that uses AI speech-to-text technology to project subtitles viewable only to the wearer
After Wowing Gordon Ramsay, Student Chef Is Really Cooking Meet Hotelie Arnav Kamulkar ’26, who ran a pop-up restaurant and self-published a cookbook while still in high school
They Fled Afghanistan Together—and Now They’re Graduating After escaping the Taliban, nine women matriculated on the Hill; the first to complete their degrees are in the Class of ’25
Slope Day 2025 in Photos The annual celebration of the end of classes brought music, revelry—and at one point, lots of bubbles—to the Hill