The odds are good for hungry students in Ithaca — the last few months have seen a diverse new crop of eateries open near Cornell, from the familiar coffeehouse Starbucks to the new That Burrito Place. Just above Collegetown, another new eatery is joining the competition, offering coffee, pastries and soup to hungry Ithacans.

Alice Chuang ’09 said:
“Duffield.”

Ariadne Buffery ’09 said:
“The Fine Arts library.”

Mary Gilliam ’09 said:
“The classic: the leather couches in the A.D. White room. Everyone does it; that’s what they’re there for.”

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) M.R.P. ’96 was the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Arizona State Senate and is only the third woman in Arizona’s history to be elected to U.S. Congress. The Cornell alumna also holds the distinction of being Arizona’s first Jewish female representative. Recently named one of “America’s Eight Young Leaders Worth Watching,” she took time in between votes at the House of Representatives to answer a few questions about healthcare, immigration and her time on the Hill.

Prof. Mike Waldman, an economics professor at the Johnson School of Management, likes to work on puzzles. So when he noticed an increasing number of articles reporting a rise in autism rates, he set out to discover a possible cause of the neurological condition and discovered an unlikely suspect: television.

The first time Project Vote national director and voters’ rights advocate Jehmu Greene tried to vote, she was turned away from the polls. This experience became the driving motivation behind her growth into a powerful voters’ rights advocate and helped her land the presidency of youth voting organization Rock the Vote!

The scene was bizarre: renowned architect Rem Koolhaas was dressed in a track suit and standing behind a turntable as a disco ball spun and a stray llama drifted by in the background. Watching this animation on a screen, the Bailey Hall audience who had come to hear Koolhaas’ plans for Milstein Hall was surprised — to say the least.

Cornell’s Solar Decathlon team made headlines last year when they placed second overall in the Solar Decathlon, a Department of Energy-sponsored international competition featuring 18 university teams. Now, four former members of the Solar Decathlon team are making a name for themselves with their newest project, the design firm Independence Energy Homes.