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The major gift from the Brooks family, whose Cornell roots span three generations, provides an early boost to help the university’s newest school achieve world-class excellence.
June 4, 2021
Cornell women’s volleyball alumna Alena Madar ’21 has positively influenced countless individuals during her time on East Hill. However, her greatest impact has been on a community over 8,000 miles away in rural India, where she has helped marginalized tribal women create livelihoods for themselves that would otherwise be unimaginable.
When Madar initially came to Cornell as a bright-eyed freshman, she had a distinct career path that she was eager to pursue. An extremely driven, high-achieving student in high school, Madar was locked in on being a biomedical engineering major. Or so she thought.
After about three semesters on the biomedical engineering track, Madar started to question if engineering was actually her true calling. Still yielding the same core interests, but becoming curious about what else was out there, Madar started exploring what other avenues Cornell had to offer.
In 2020, Charles “Charlie” Van Loan volunteered to stay on as dean of the faculty for an additional year “after it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic would ravage how we run the place,” he said.
As a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars, Baobao Zhang will investigate challenges governments face when addressing public perceptions of inequalities brought about by new technologies and Elizabeth Johnson will look into connections between infant nutrition and gastrointestinal health.