What can you do with an IC English degree? Become a chef, of course. What if your degree is in theater arts management? You can start an organic food business. If you majored in television-radio? Find work as a cook on a National Science Foundation research ship.

Sixteen students left South...

By Kate Larrabee

Some Ithaca College grads follow the straight and narrow path from college to career. Others, like Greg Silverman, find themselves on a more circuitous route.

As an Ithaca student, Silverman studied anthropology and politics. He then went on to graduate school at the...

By Brenna Fitzgerald

Lev Ekster is good at seeing what’s not there. When the economic recession offered few job opportunities for 2009 law school graduates, Ekster tapped into his entrepreneurial powers and started Cupcake Stop, New York’s first mobile cupcake...

By Gary Frank

For Beverley Watson-Horsted, 2009 was the year when two dreams came to fruition.

First, she opened a bed and breakfast in the western New York town of Dansville. Second, she published her first book,...

By Susan Weiner

Zen Buddhists have a saying that translates from Japanese as, “To be aware of opportunity is divine.” While Zen is a path without a defined beginning or end, a glimpse into Nan Kathryn Fuchs’ career reveals that her own life unfolded as a series of what she...