Table of Contents VOL. V NO. 4, SUMMER 2013
THE ESSENTIALS
The Essentials
Sustainability wall at Stella's, Fredrick Logevall wins Pulitzer Prize, Kyle Dake's 4th NCAA title, deans named for Arts and Sciences and Computing and Information Science, and more. Read more
COVER STORY
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. Read more
CORNELL NOW
Cornell Now–2015
Campaign tops $4 billion, veterans scholarship, donors respond to match campaign and a new Cornell U.K. charity. Read more
WORTH SUPPORTING
You Can Make It Happen: Summer 2013
A handful of examples of ways to give to Cornell, from funding Engaged Scholars to promoting graduate and professional student mental health. Read more
WORTH SUPPORTING
'I promised I'd pay back every penny': How Gloria Lang made good
Gloria Lang '69 is a giant in the world of textiles for the home, especially bedding and towels. In the 1980s, she managed the first major U.S. retailer offering of high-thread-count sheets. Read more
PEOPLE
After a decade as dean, Arts and Sciences' Peter Lepage returns to the classroom
Being dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for the past 10 years has been a mixed blessing for Peter Lepage. Read more
DEANS Q&A
Q&A with Cornell's deans
In this second installment in an ongoing series of conversations with academic deans, we again hear the real voices of the leaders of Cornell's colleges and schools. Read more
FACULTY
Faculty Legends: Jerry Hass and Dr. George Papanicolaou
Finance professor Jerome "Jerry" Hass taught many generations of students at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management for 46 years. Read more
FACULTY
Q&A with new members of the faculty
Q&A with Eilyan Bitar, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and a Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellowships update. Read more
CORNELL HISTORY
What lies beneath
What about the areas of campus that don't tower far above Cayuga's waters? What lies beneath the acres of picturesque quadrangles and stately halls of learning? Read more
NEW YORK CITY
Irwin and Joan Jacobs give $133M to Cornell Tech
Irwin Mark Jacobs '54 and his wife, Joan Klein Jacobs '54, have made a $133 million gift to Cornell and the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology. Read more
WE CORNELLIANS
Another page from 'We Cornellians': an illustrated Cornell history, ca. 1940
Another page from 'We Cornellians': an illustrated Cornell history, ca. 1940 , by Steve Barker '41. Read more
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