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John Amos '85 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences John Amos ’85 EAS spent much of his childhood in the hills and gorges of Upstate New York with his father, looking for fossils. Fossils are plentiful in...
Charlie Sporck '50 Mechanical Engineering When Charlie Sporck was hired in the late fifties to oversee the production of silicon semiconductors, he didn’t really know how they worked. That did not...
Padmasree Warrior '84 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Padmasree Warrior M.S. ’84 ChemE has had a thirty-year career in the tech sector, rising to her current position as Chief Technology and...
When Dan Simpkins was a freshman at Cornell, he had two majors. “When I started as an undergraduate, I was a double major in engineering and pre med. As you can imagine, life wasn’t pretty. After one...
Jeremy Blum '12 Electrical and Computer Engineering, '13 M.Eng "If you see something that needs to be made, make it. If you see the need, so does somebody else. If you don't work on the solution,...
Kristen Graf '01 Biological and Environmental Engineering Kristen Graf '01 BEE says of herself, "I have a strong set of personal rules, and where those butt up against the world's rules I think it is...
JEN BAKER '12 MBA '13 M.Eng What do you do if the job you know would be perfect for you simply does not exist? You could take what comes along and daydream about what you would really like to be doing...
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http://cornellsun.com/2013/11/10/cornell-center-receives-5-million-donation-to-bolster-teaching/
In 1987, James Altucher '89 -- today a successful entrepreneur, columnist and author -- started his first business, CollegeCard, with two other Cornell students. Back then, debit cards were...
