Sana Ahmad, College of Engineering
Fluent in Urdu/Hindi, Ahmad has worked on Cornell's solar house and autonomous underwater vehicle and has already taken enough credits to be more than halfway toward earning a Master's of Engineering.

Jeannine Altavilla, College of Architecture, Art and Planning
Altavilla helped design revitalization plans for Collegetown and New Orleans, traveled to Costa Rica with the Cornell Wind Ensemble and spent a semester in the Cornell in Rome program, all in three years, as she is graduating a year early.

Justin Anderson, College of Arts and Sciences
Anderson, an Eagle Scout, has spent four years serving the local community as a scoutmaster for a local Boy Scout troop and as a member of a service fraternity, and working for Cornell Cinema.

Jason Bender, College of Engineering
One of the top students in his major (with 16 A-pluses), Bender was working on research in his adviser's lab for just four weeks when his adviser commented, "He is operating already as a top graduate student ... Jason has proven to me he is almost superhuman."

Abdul Chaballout, College of Human Ecology
Chaballout, an American Muslim pre-med student, uses his Arabic skills and cultural background to build bridges with other Cornell students and as a vehicle in his scholarship.

N. Barbara Conolly, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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.

Catherine Elder, College of Arts and Sciences
Elder is not only a leader in her co-op, in the Intercooperative Council and in the Cornell Photo Society, she is a physics tutor, soccer player and steel drum player.

Aaron Gingrande, ILR School
Gingrande, a jazz guitarist and a Cornell Presidential Research Scholar, learned Chinese so he could interview Chinese workers firsthand as part of his ongoing interest in human resource practices in China.

Jarett Goldman, College of Human Ecology
Goldman learned Mandarin Chinese at Cornell and attended a Beijing university for a semester. A teaching assistant since he was a second-semester freshman, he takes pride in his mentoring skills.

Jessica Hippolyte, College of Human Ecology
Hippolyte, leaning on black women and Haitian student organizations for her own support, mentored freshmen and interned in a New York City hospital and a school in Haiti, where she broadened her pre-med skills.

Ding Kong, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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.

Tim Krueger, College of Arts and Sciences
Krueger was founder and director of the Roosevelt Institution on campus and was a columnist for The Cornell Daily Sun. He is also the father of a young son.

Miatta Lebile, College of Arts and Sciences
Lebile sang her way through Cornell with her eye on singing onstage in the future. "It is what I do, what I breathe, what I love. Music is what gets me going, and I don't know what I would do without it."

Corissa Lee, College of Engineering
Water polo -- playing on the women's team and coaching the men's -- helped keep Lee "sane" while studying materials science and engineering at Cornell.

Christi Lockwood, School of Hotel Administration
The first in her family to attend college, Lockwood had a rough time adjusting to an Ivy League school. But once she did, she rocked -- ultimately being chosen as the most accomplished student in her college by winning the Drown Prize.

Sara Martinez, College of Arts and Sciences
Martinez, who hails from a small citrus-based town north of Santa Barbara, Calif., came here to study astronomy but got wooed from the sciences into history, specifically material culture and museum studies.

Perry O'Brien, College of Arts and Sciences
Three years into a four-year enlistment and after a tour of duty in Afghanistan as a medic, morality issues began to plague O'Brien, now 26, who eventually obtained conscientious objector status. His anti-war efforts have largely defined his two-years at Cornell.

Matt Perkins, College of Engineering
Singing, sustainable energy and Mandarin Chinese have largely defined Perkins' Cornell experience. He served as president of the Cornell Glee Club and Kyoto Now!, which pushed Cornell to commit to developing a plan for achieving climate neutrality.

Helen Tsang, College of Arts and Sciences
Tsang was active in issues that affect Asian and Asian-American students at Cornell. Says one of her advisers: "Students such as Helen are exemplary in their unwavering commitment to improve our social and political world because of their pure unselfish goodness."

Julio Lopez, College of Veterinary Medicine
Lopez has been a leader in the Veterinary College's organization Veterinary Students as One in Culture and Diversity (VOICE), and he helped secure funding to expand the group to veterinary colleges nationwide.

Angela Winfield, Law School
Blindness has not been a barrier to Winfield's passion. While attending Cornell Law School, she was active in Moot Court competitions and served on the University Committee on Web Accessibility.