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Portraits: Seven extraordinary undergraduates
Meet seven students -- future leaders, helpers, chroniclers, heroes, entrepreneurs, designers and thinkers -- who are typical of Cornell undergraduates today, which means not typical at all, really.
From speaking to them, we know what this diverse group of people has in common: ambition, confidence in themselves, a deep respect and gratitude for their Cornell professors, and modesty and humility. They all said, in their interviews, something to this effect: "I still have so much I want to learn." Read more
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From The Publisher
It's a cliché, but also true -- universities are idea factories. At Cornell this has been the case for nearly a century and a half -- beginning with Ezra Cornell's grand idea to found an entirely different kind of university. Read more