Tahllee Baynard ’97 was named 2012 Scientist of the Year by Black Engineer magazine. The award was presented in February at the BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference. It is part of the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, which honors engineers, research scientists and students. Read More…
Joe Curnutte ’04 co-wrote and co-stars in the play “Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War,” which received a positive review in The New York Times on Feb. 14. Read More…
On Jan. 31 “NBC Nightly News” featured Cornell trustee Dr. Larry Dorr ’63 and Operation Walk, the charity he founded, in its “Making a Difference” segment. Read More…
Rob Ash ’73 was named the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year in January. Read More…
Happiness, Inc., the show choir at Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was named the nation’s favorite by Parade magazine. The choir is directed by Storm Zeigler ’94. Read More…
Amy Lasack ’96, Director of Training and Outreach Services for Kirkwood Community College, was named one of the Forty Under 40 by the Corridor Business Journal. Read More…
The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa’s student newspaper, profiled Cornell alum, surgeon and author Dr. Lawrence Dorr ’63. Dorr was in Iowa to promote his first novel, “Die Once, Live Twice.”
Dorr, who got his MD from Iowa, read at Prairie Lights Bookstore.
From the article:
“In Iowa, you were just expected to work hard,” said Dorr, a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1967. “There were people smarter than me, but if you didn’t work hard, you got bypassed.”
That hard work led to the publishing of his first novel — a story that details the history of medicine using real doctors woven together with fictional characters. Completing the book is something he said is one of his greatest accomplishments.
“The history of medicine is so rich,” he said. “It’s kind of how the Wild West was won — except it wasn’t cowboys and Indians. It was doctors and patients.”
You can read the entire piece here.
Iowa Public Radio feature Midamar, the Cedar Rapids-based halal food company founded by Bill Aoessy ’63. Read More…
Brian McMillin ’06 was featured in the Sunday, June 19 Gazette after he finished his project to photograph all 974 small towns in Iowa.
Chicago alum Harper Reed ’01 is serving as chief technology officer of the Obama 2012 campaign. Read More…