Billionaire Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong is one of the most influential people working in the cryptocurrency industry. In 2012, he co-founded Coinbase, a digital platform that helps users buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies…
Before Gabby Thomas stepped onto the track, the Ivy League wasn’t known for producing Olympic medalists. At only 24 years old, the elite sprinter has already carved a name out for herself in track-and-field athletics. Thomas specializes in the 200-meter dash, an event once dominated by the late Florence Griffith Joyner…
Katie Ledecky is widely considered to be the greatest female swimmer of all time. She has won the World Championship 15 times and accumulated 7 Olympic gold medals. Before shattering numerous world records, Ledecky demonstrated prodigious skills early in life. At only 15 years old, she made her international debut at the 2012 London Olympics…
UVA swimmers Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass have been competing against each other since their formative years. However, the pair recently made headlines as teammates in Tokyo. During their Olympic debut, Walsh and Douglass captured medals in the 200-meter individual medley, which involves each swimmer doing each of the four primary strokes — butterfly, back, breast, and free — through one length of the pool…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Cornell Alumni in Technology of 2021. Stretching across a campus of thousands of acres, Cornell University has educated some of the Continue Reading
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Cornell Alumni in Technology of 2021. Stretching across a campus of thousands of acres, Cornell University has educated some of the brightest minds of today’s society in their 16 colleges and schools…
Prominent finance expert Gary Gensler is the current Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Gensler is a veteran of both public service and the private sector, and has been a proponent of reform and transparency in financial markets…
Studs Terkel was an award-winning author and broadcast personality who was best known for chronicling the lives of Americans from the Great Depression to the early 21st century. Beginning his 50-plus year career in Chicago, Terkel first worked with the radio division of the WPA Writers Project…
Impressively, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has earned national recognition for creating bipartisan coalitions in a time when political divisiveness is the norm. An attorney by training, Gillibrand worked in New York City-based private practices for more than a decade and then decided to pursue a path of public service leadership…
From 2005 to 2009, Condoleezza Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the U.S. A member of the Republican Party, Rice was the first African-American to hold this post. As the nation’s top diplomat, Rice dedicated her department to “transformational diplomacy,” placing American diplomats throughout the Middle East — especially in areas of major turmoil…
