03/12/2024
Celebrating 140 years of women in Cornell Engineering: Meet Elissa Sterry '79
Elissa Sterry became vice president of ExxonMobil Chemical Company thanks to a lifetime of embracing diverse people, education, jobs and interests. Sterry says it was her rigorous courses in operations research and engineering combined with Cornell’s liberal arts offerings that made her educational experience unique. During her undergraduate years, she mixed classes in optimization, probability, and statistics with courses in English, art history and even flower arranging.
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