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Style At the White House’s first-ever Maker Faire event, Justine Lee ’14 brought the flair. The fiber science and apparel design graduate, now a knitwear design assistant at Elie Tahari, joined the celebration of students, entrepreneurs, and everyday citizens fueling America’s maker movement. Lee, who joined Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick, CALS ’09, at the event, scored an invitation after she turned heads with her award-winning American Design & Detail collection of transformable, sustainable apparel.
SmartCEO magazine honored Lindsey Boyd ’98 and Gwen Whiting ’98, founders of The Laundress, a line of eco-friendly detergent, fabric care, and home-cleaning products, with its 2014 New York City Brava! Award. Given in four U.S. cities, the prizes recognize women who are exemplary entrepreneurs, community leaders, and mentors. Boyd and Whiting, textile and apparel management graduates, launched their business in New York City in 2004, and now sell their goods worldwide.
Clockwise from top left: Mark Vorreuter; Provided; Provided; Jon Reis
Healthy IMPACT years of The National Center for Healthcare Leadership, a nonprofit focused on improving population health, named Nancy Schlichting, Sloan ’79, as a recipient of its 2014 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award. As president and CEO of Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System, Schlichting has reversed the system’s financial losses since becoming its top executive in 2003 and led HFHS to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 2011 for performance excellence from the U.S. Commerce Department. She also spearheaded a citywide campaign to reduce infant mortality in Detroit, raising $22 million to address the issue. The NCHL award recognizes “innovative approaches to bringing high-value and accessible health care to communities, permanently transforming and improving the field.”
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Ronni Chernoff ’67 received the American Dietetic Association’s highest honor, the Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award, given annually for outstanding service to the organization. A former past president of the ADA, Chernoff directs the Arkansas Geriatric Education Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where she is also a professor of geriatrics and of health education and health behavior. For many years, she led an Arkansas-based network of professional trainings and outreach programs for the Department of Veteran Affairs. HUMAN ECOLOGY 43