Barbara Conolly, After a career in insurance, Conolly went to junior college to pursue her passion in plants. At age 48, she sold her house and entered Cornell as a junior to study horticulture.

Ding Kong, A recipient of the prestigious Udall scholarship, Kong led a sustainability initiative on campus, helped launch a course on environmental justice, tutored area schoolchildren and is part of a Japanese drumming group.

Robin Kornet, Kornet has done research on the language variations in psychopaths as well as on deception on Facebook, and she helped organize Cornell students to participate in the local family reading festival called Bookfest.