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Education is an investment, and giving partial support allows students, as they develop and mature, to have skin in the game. But I want to help prevent students from taking out even more loans that have to be repaid at a high interest rate.

Shelly Cerio ’92

A new $1.5 million endowment established by Shelly Cerio ’92 will fund undergraduate affordability scholarships for multiple students at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations each year.  Source: Giving to Cornell | Shelly Cerio ’92 makes the path to Cornell even wider QUOTE 

I couldn’t be more proud of Cornell and my experience there. It’s given so much to students like me.

Sina Toussi ’91

Sina Toussi ’91 established a new undergraduate scholarship in honor of Professors David B. Lyons and Allen W. Wood. The gift contributes to Cornell’s Undergraduate Affordability Initiative, and it is focused on supporting first-generation college students from the Bronx, New York.  Source: Giving to Cornell | Sina Toussi ’91: Honoring professors and transforming lives QUOTE 

“The ultimate vision is to have bidirectional communication, so not only could a reporter plant communicate that it needs water, a farmer might also inform a plant that it could be dry for many days and the plant should use water more efficiently.”

Vesna Bacheva, postdoctoral associate in CROPPS (Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems)

Source: Cornell Chronicle | Century-old mystery of plant communication solved QUOTE