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{{Short description|Private university in Ithaca, New York, US}}
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| latin_name = Universitas Cornelliana<ref>{{cite book |title=The Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Royal Society of London, July 15-19, 1912 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FY9RAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA74 |publisher=Royal Society |page=74 |date=1913 }}</ref>
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| endowment = $10.7&nbsp;billion (2024)<ref name=endowment />
| budget = $5.4&nbsp;billion (2023)<ref>{{cite press release |title=Consolidated Financial Statements: June 30, 2023 and 2022 |website=cornell.edu |publisher=Cornell University |url=https://www.dfa.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/cornell-financial-report-FY2023.pdf }}</ref>
| president = ] (interim)
| provost = John Siliciano
| faculty = 1,639 in ]<br/>1,235 in New York City<br/>34 in ], Qatar<!-- †Regular full-time and part-time professorial faculty members. NYC Weill medical-division units have additional external affiliations with 867 full-time and part-time faculty members elsewhere. -->
| students = 26,284 (fall&nbsp;2023)<ref name=IRP_E>{{cite web |title=Student Enrollment |series=University Factbook |date=1 November 2023 |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/tableau_visual/factbook-enrollment |access-date=1 November 2023 }}</ref>
| undergrad = 16,071 (fall&nbsp;2023)<ref name=IRP_E/>
| postgrad = 10,207 (fall&nbsp;2023)<ref name=IRP_E/>
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| mascot = ] the Bear (unofficial)<ref name=mascot/>
| motto = "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Altschuler |first1=Glenn C. |last2=Kramnick |first2=Isaac |title=Cornell: a history, 1940-2015 |date=2014 |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca |isbn=9780801471889 |page=355 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Berg |first1=Alex |title=C.U. Motto Earns Top Rank |url=https://cornellsun.com/2007/08/21/motto-story/ |access-date=21 March 2024 |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |date=21 August 2007 }}</ref>
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'''Cornell University''' is a ] ] ] ] based in ], United States. The university was founded in 1865 by ] and ]. Since its founding, Cornell has been a ] and ] institution. As of fall 2023, the student body included 16,071 undergraduate and 10,207 graduate students from all 50&nbsp;U.S. states and 130&nbsp;countries.<ref name=IRP_E/>

The university is organized into eight ] colleges and seven ] divisions on its main Ithaca campus.<ref name="Colleges and Schools">{{cite web |title=Colleges and Schools |url=https://www.cornell.edu/academics/colleges.cfm |access-date=29 May 2024 |website=cornell.edu |publisher=Cornell University }}</ref> Each college and academic division has near autonomy in defining its respective admission standards and academic curriculum. In addition to its primary campus in Ithaca, the university administers three satellite campuses, including two in New York City, the ] and ], and a ] in ], ] ].<ref name="Colleges and Schools"/>

Cornell is one of three private ] in the United States.{{efn|The others are the ] and ].}} Among the university's eight undergraduate colleges, four are ] through the ] system, including the ], the ], the ], and the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Among Cornell's graduate schools, only the ] is supported by New York. The main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca spans {{convert|745|acre|ha}}.

{{As of|October 2024|post=,}} 64&nbsp;], 4 ] winners, and 1 ]ist have been affiliated with Cornell. Cornell counts more than 250,000&nbsp;living alumni, which include 34&nbsp;],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statistics |website=marshallscholarship.org |publisher=] |url=http://www.marshallscholarship.org/about/statistics |access-date=2 November 2020 }}</ref> 33&nbsp;], 29&nbsp;], 63&nbsp;], 10&nbsp;current ] ], and 35&nbsp;billionaires.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wealth-X Applied Wealth Intelligence |url=https://www.wealthx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Wealth-X_Billionaire_Census_2018.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Hess |first=Abigail |date=29 November 2018 |title=University of Wisconsin produced the most current Fortune&nbsp;500 CEOs — here's how 29&nbsp;other schools stack up |publisher=CNBC |language=en |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/28/these-30-colleges-produced-the-most-current-fortune-500-ceos.html |access-date=16 June 2020 }}</ref><ref name=factbook>{{cite web |title=Factbook |date=Oct 2009 |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://www.cornell.edu/about/facts/cornell_facts.pdf |access-date=27 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060626082316/http://www.cornell.edu/about/facts/cornell_facts.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2006 }}</ref><ref name=nobel>{{cite press release |title=Nobel laureates affiliated with Cornell University |website=Cornell Chronicle |publisher=Cornell News Service |url=https://news.cornell.edu/content/nobel-laureates-affiliated-cornell-university |access-date=12 September 2022 }}</ref><ref name="Rhodes Scholars">{{cite web |title=Uncle Ezra |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1165899600 |access-date=10 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070102092343/http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1165899600 |archive-date=2 January 2007 }}</ref>


== History ==
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|campus = ], 745 ]s (3.0 ]&sup2;)
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'''Cornell University''' is a research ] located on the East Hill of ]. Its two medical campuses are located in ] and in ], ], near ].


===19th century===
The youngest member of the ], Cornell was founded in ] by ] and ] as a ]al, ] institution where admission was offered irrespective of ] or ]. Conceived immediately after the ] and the ], its founders intended that the new university would teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the ] to the ]s and from the ] to the ]. These ideals—a radical departure at the time—are captured in Cornell's motto, an 1865 ] quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study".
Cornell University was founded on 27 April 1865, by ], an entrepreneur and ], and ], an educator and also a New York State Senator, after the ] authorized the university as the state's ] institution.<ref>{{cite report |chapter=Chapter&nbsp;585: An act to establish the Cornell University&nbsp;... |title=] |journal=Laws of the State of New York Passed at the Sessions of the Legislature |volume=88th sess. |year=1865 |pages=1188–1194 |hdl=2027/nyp.33433090742218 |issn=0892-287X |chapter-url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433090742218?urlappend=%3Bseq=1198}} enacted 27&nbsp;April 1865.</ref> Ezra Cornell offered his farm in ] as a preliminary site for the university, and granted $500,000 of his personal fortune as an initial ] ({{Inflation|US|500000|1863|fmt=eq|r=-3}}) to the university. White agreed to be Cornell University's first president.


White spent the first three years at Cornell University overseeing construction of the university's first two buildings, and he traveled to recruit promising students and ].<ref name=founding>{{cite book |last=Becker |first=Carl L. |author-link=Carl L. Becker |year=1943 |title=Cornell University: Founders and the founding |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=] |isbn=978-0-8014-9058-3 |url=http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/184 |access-date=17 June 2006 }}</ref> On 7 October 1868, Cornell University was inaugurated, and 412 male students were enrolled the following day.<ref name="opening">{{cite web |title=How old is Cornell? |publisher=Cornell University |series=Facts about Cornell |website=cornell.edu |url=http://www.cornell.edu/about/facts/faq_profile.cfm?id=915 |access-date=2 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118230127/http://www.cornell.edu/about/facts/faq_profile.cfm?id=915 |archive-date=18 January 2012 }}</ref>
Known for both its ] and ] programs, Cornell continues to have one of the broadest ] of any university, offering more than 80 ], housing over 150 ] and offering well over 5000 ]. Cornell is also a leader in research: During the 2004–05 academic year, research expenditures topped $560 million{{ref|lead.research}}. In recent years, Cornell has been aggressively expanding its ]—from the establishment, in ], of the ], the first American ] outside of the United States, to the forging of partnerships and collaboration with major institutions in ]{{ref|lead.china}}, ]{{ref|lead.india}} and ]{{ref|lead.singapore}}—it has gone as far as claiming to be "the first transnational university."{{ref|lead.transnational_claim}}


Cornell developed as a technologically innovative institution, applying its academic research to its own campus and to outreach efforts. In 1883, it was one of the first university campuses to utilize electricity developed from a water-powered ] to light its campus.<ref name=chp>{{cite web |title=The Early History of District Energy at Cornell University |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://www.utilities.cornell.edu/utl_heatinghistory.html |access-date=24 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704140529/http://www.utilities.cornell.edu/utl_heatinghistory.html |archive-date=4 July 2007 }}</ref> Since 1894, Cornell has included colleges that are state-funded and fulfill state statutory requirements;<ref>{{cite book |last=Gelber |first=Sidney |year=2001 |title=Politics and Public Higher Education in New York State: Stony Brook: A case history |location=New York, NY |publisher=P. Lang |page=14 |isbn=978-0-8204-4919-7 }}</ref> it has also administered research and extension activities that have been jointly funded by New York state and ] matching funds.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |publisher=Cornell University Cooperative Extension |url=http://www.cce.cornell.edu/learnAbout/Pages/About.aspx |access-date=25 March 2014 }}</ref>
==History==
{{main|History of Cornell University}}
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Cornell was created on ], ] by the ] when they passed a bill naming Cornell as the state's ] institution. Senator ] offered his ] in ] as a site and $500,000 of his personal fortune as an initial ]. Fellow senator and experienced educator ] agreed to be the first president. Over the next three years, White oversaw the construction of the initial two buildings and traveled about the country, attracting students and faculty.


Beginning with its first classes, Cornell University has had active and engaged alumni. In 1872, the university became one of the first universities in the nation to include alumni-elected representatives on its board of trustees.{{efn|The university's charter was amended on 24&nbsp;April 1867, to specify alumni-elected trustees;<ref>{{cite book |author1=Hewett, Waterman Thomas |author2=Holmes, Frank R. |author3=Williams, Lewis A. |year=1905 |title=Cornell University: A history |volume=1 |publisher=University Publishing Society |url=https://archive.org/details/cornelluniversi00willgoog |page= |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> however, that provision was not implemented until there were at least 100&nbsp;alumni<ref>{{cite book |title=The revised statutes of the State of New York |publisher=Banks & Brothers |year=1881 |author=State of New York |page= |url=https://archive.org/details/revisedstatutes02stagoog |access-date=14 December 2010 |quote=first alumni trustees cornell elect. }}</ref> in 1872.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Frank Hatch Kasson |author2=Frank Herbert Palmer |author3=Raymond P. Palmer |author4=Project Innovation |date=September 1901 |title=Education |volume=22 |pages=108–109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jS05AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA107 |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> Also in 1865, the election of the Harvard University Board of Overseers was shifted to alumni voting.}}
After much planning, the university was inaugurated on October 7, ] and, through examination, admitted its first students the following day - an initial enrolment of 412 men . While Cornell offered ] since its inception, no women enrolled until ], many years before any of the other ] schools. The initial faculty included such noteworthy academics as ] and ].


Cornell University is home to ], founded in 1869. Cornell was first home to the ''Cornell Era'', a weekly campus publication founded in 1868. In 1880, it was replaced with the founding of '']'', an independent student-run newspaper, which is now one of the nation's longest continuously published student newspapers.


From the 19th to early 20th centuries, Cornell had several ] that were founded to encourage writing, reading, and oration skills. The ] described three of them as a "purely literary society" following the traditions of the old literary societies of Eastern universities.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U5sFAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22the+Irving%22+Cornell&pg=RA3-PA393 |title=Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ... |date=1900 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en }}</ref>
===Notable research===
The Automotive Crash Injury Research project was begun in 1952 by ] at the ] (spun off in 1972 as Calspan Corporation). It pioneered the first-ever use of crash testing (originally using corpses rather than dummies). The project discovered that an extraordinary percentage of injuries could be prevented by improved door locks, energy-absorbing steering wheels, padded dashboards, and seat belts. The project led to Liberty Mutual's funding the building of a demonstration Cornell Safety Car in 1956, which received national publicity, and influenced carmakers. Carmakers started their own crash-test laboratories and gradually adopted the main Cornell innovations, all now taken for granted (although others, such as rear-facing passenger seats, never found favor with carmakers or the public).


===20th century===
In 1984, the ] began work on establishing five new ] centers, including the ], to provide high-speed computing resources for research within the United States. In 1985, development of ], a ]-based computer network that could connect to the ], was undertaken by a team from the ] at the ] and the Cornell Theory Center. This high-speed network, unrestricted to academic users, became a backbone to which regional networks would be connected. Initially a 56-] network, traffic on the network grew ]; the links were upgraded to 1.5-] ] in 1988 and to 45 Mbit/s in 1991. The NSFNet was a major milestone in the development of the ] and its rapid growth coincided with the development of the ].{{ref|research.nsfnet}}
] on the Cornell campus, which was occupied by armed ] protesters in 1969, leading to the resignation of ], Cornell's ]]]
In 1967, Cornell experienced a fire in the Residential Club dormitory that killed eight students and one professor. In the late 1960s, Cornell was among the ] universities that experienced heightened student activism related to cultural issues, civil rights, and ]. In 1969, armed anti-] protesters occupied ], an incident that led to a restructuring of the university's governance and forced the resignation of then Cornell president ].<ref name=Downs1999>{{cite book |last=Downs |first=Donald Alexander |year=1999 |title=Cornell '69: Liberalism and the crisis of the American university |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-3653-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/cornell69liberal00down |url-access=registration |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref>


Since the 20th century, rankings of universities and colleges, Cornell University and its academic programs have routinely ranked among the best in the world. In 1995, the ] ranked Cornell's PhD programs as sixth-best in the nation. It also ranked the academic quality of 18 individual Cornell Ph.D. programs among the top ten in the nation, which included ] (ninth-best), ] (sixth-best), civil engineering (sixth-best), ] (sixth-best), ] (fifth-best), ecology (fourth-best), ] (seventh-best), English (seventh-best), French (eighth-best), ] (tenth-best), German (third-best), ] (ninth-best), ] (third-best), mechanical engineering (seventh-best), philosophy (ninth-best), ] (sixth-best), Spanish (eighth-best), and statistics/] (fourth-best). The council ranked ] faculty as fifth-best in the nation, its Mathematics and Physical Sciences faculty as sixth-best, and its ] as fifth-best.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/publications/pdf/nrc_rankings_1995.pdf |title=National Research Council Report on Quality in Ph.D. Education in the U.S. |publisher=UC Berkeley Graduate Publications |access-date=6 July 2006 |archive-date=9 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060709181318/http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/publications/pdf/nrc_rankings_1995.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Ronald G., Ehrenberg, and Peter J. Hurst, "The 1995 NRC ratings of doctoral programs" ''Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning'' 28.3 (1996): 46-54.</ref>
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For more than 40 years, Cornell has been involved in unmanned missions to ]{{ref|research.timeline}}. Recently, Cornell had a hand in the ]. Cornell's own ]{{ref|research.squyres}}, Principal investigator for the ], led the selection of the landing zones and requested data collection features for the ] and ] rovers. ] engineers took those requests and designed the rovers to meet them. ] is also responsible for all of the designs relating to space travel, Mars terrain travel, and the software-control system. The rovers, which have both operated long past their original life expectancy, are responsible for the discoveries that were awarded ] Breakthrough of the Year honors{{ref|reserach.breakthrough}} by '']''. Photos taken by Opportunity, near its landing site at ], showed a stratification pattern and cross bedding within the rocks that suggest a history of water flowing in the region. Control of the Mars rovers has shifted between NASA's ] at ] and Cornell's Space Sciences Building{{ref|research.rover_control}}.


==Organization== ===21st century===
{{Further|Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar|Cornell Tech}}
===Academic units===
], founded in 2017 on ] in New York City]]
Cornell is a private institution, receiving most of its funding through tuition, research grants, and alumni contributions. However, three of its undergraduate colleges as well as the graduate-level ], called contract or ]s, also receive partial funding from the state of New York to support their research and service mission in niche fields. Residents of New York enrolled in the contract colleges enjoy reduced tuition. Further, the governor of the state serves as an ex-officio member of the board of trustees. It is a common misconception that Cornell's contract colleges are public institutions. They are not—they are private institutions that Cornell operates by contract with the state government.
In 2000, Cornell began expanding its international programs. In 2004, the university opened ] in ] in ], Qatar.<ref name=aboutqatar>{{cite web |title=Cornell Medical College in Qatar |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://www.qatar-med.cornell.edu/aboutUs/purpose.html?name1=Purpose+and+Mission&type1=2Active |url-status=dead |access-date=22 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040812234247/http://www.qatar-med.cornell.edu/aboutUs/purpose.html?name1=Purpose+and+Mission&type1=2Active |archive-date=12 August 2004 }}</ref> The university also developed partnerships with academic institutions in India, the ], and Singapore.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Cornell president joins Indian prime minister to open new chapter in science education |date=21 July 2005 |publisher=Cornell News Service <!-- |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/RawlingsIndia.bpf.html |access-date=January 1, 2006 --> |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/07/cornell-president-joins-indian-prime-minister-open-new-chapter-science-education }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |title=Hotel School, Singapore university establish joint master's program |publisher=Cornell News Service |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/11.11.04/HotelSchool-Nanyang.html |access-date=1 January 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/Rawlings_China_main.html |title=Rawlings heads to China to sign partnership agreement and deliver keynote address at economic summit in Beijing |publisher=Cornell News Service |access-date=1 January 2006 }}</ref>


In August 2002, a graduate student group, At What Cost?, was formed at Cornell to oppose a ] drive run by CASE/UAW, an affiliate of the ]. The vote to unionize, held in October 2002, was rejected, and At What Cost? was considered instrumental in the unusually large 90% turnout for the vote and in the 2-to-1 defeat of the unionization proposal, the first instance in history in which a U.S. graduate school vote on unionization was defeated in a vote.<ref>{{cite news |last=Delwiche |first=Anna |date=25 October 2016 |title='At what cost?' Group challenges unilateral actions, exclusivity of grad student union campaign |newspaper=] |url=http://cornellsun.com/2016/10/25/at-what-cost-group-challenges-unilateral-actions-exclusivity-of-grad-student-union-campaign/ |access-date=27 September 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Cornell graduate students would each pay nearly $400 to NYSUT/AFT yearly |date=16 October 2016 |website=atwhatcost.org |url=http://atwhatcost.org/2016/10/16/gradute-students-will-pay-nearly-400-to-nysutaft-yearly/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020194915/http://atwhatcost.org/2016/10/16/gradute-students-will-pay-nearly-400-to-nysutaft-yearly/ |archive-date=20 October 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Dues without democracy: AFT Unions require extra dues for voting rights? |date=24 October 2016 |website=atwhatcost.org |url=http://atwhatcost.org/2016/10/24/230/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104071834/http://atwhatcost.org/2016/10/24/230/ |archive-date=4 November 2016 }}</ref>
Cornell is highly decentralized, with its colleges and schools enjoying wide autonomy. Each defines its own academic programs, organizes its own admissions and advising programs, and confers its own degrees. The only university-wide requirements for a baccalaureate degree are to pass a swimming test and take two physical education courses. Periodically, the university attempts to resolve naturally arising redundancies by creating special inter-school departments. While students may take courses offered by the division, their enrollment remains with their individual college or school. With that said, any student may take any course in any of the colleges, provided they have fulfilled the pre-requisites for enrollment.


In March 2004, Cornell and ] laid the cornerstone for the building and operation of "Bridging the Rift Center", located on the border between Israel and ], and used for education.<ref>{{cite press release |first=David |last=Brand |date=9 March 2004 |title=Lehman leads CU group to desert to promote education – and peace |publisher=Cornell University News Service |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/features/BTR/BTR_cover.html |access-date=24 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080718210043/http://www.news.cornell.edu/features/BTR/BTR_cover.html |archive-date=18 July 2008 }}</ref> In 2005, ], a former president of Cornell, described the university and its high international profile as a "transnational university".<ref>{{cite news |last=Jaschik |first=Scott |date=13 June 2005 |title=Sudden departure at Cornell |journal=] |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/06/13/cornell |access-date=25 July 2013 }}</ref>
Seven schools offer undergraduate programs. Students pursuing graduate degrees in departments of these schools are enrolled in the ]. In addition, there are six units offering graduate and professional programs.


In 2017, Cornell opened ], a graduate campus and research center on ] in New York City, which won a competition bid initiated by former ] ], and is designed to spur technology entrepreneurship in New York City.
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==Campuses==
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Cornell University's main campus is located in ], on East Hill, offering views of the city and ]. The campus has expanded to approximately {{cvt|745|acres}} since its founding, now including multiple academic buildings, laboratories, administrative facilities, athletic centers, auditoriums, museums, and residential areas.<ref>{{cite news |access-date=23 August 2023 |title=Cornell University |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/cornell-university-2711 |work=US News }}</ref><ref name="ithaca">{{cite web |url=http://www.cornell.edu/visiting/ithaca |title=Cornell University – The Ithaca Campus |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=6 April 2006 }}</ref> In 2011, '']'' recognized Cornell's campus in Ithaca as one of the most beautiful in the United States, praising its unique blend of architectural styles, historic landmarks, and picturesque surroundings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-most-beautiful-college-campuses/11 |title=America's most beautiful college campuses |website=Travel+Leisure |date=September 2011 }}</ref>


The Ithaca campus is characterized by an irregular layout and a mix of architectural styles, which have developed over time and are attributed to the university's ever-changing master plans for the campus. The more ornate buildings generally predate ]. Since then, more recent buildings on the campus are characterized by ] styles.<ref>{{cite book |first=Daniel |last=Margulis |author2=Schroeder, John |title=A Century at Cornell |publisher=] |location=] |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-938304-00-5 |pages=110–111 }}</ref>
====Graduate/Professional colleges and schools====
All of Cornell's graduate and professional schools are endowed, except for the statutory veterinary school.


Several Cornell University buildings have been named ]s,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fcs.cornell.edu/content/campus-buildings-and-landmarks-historic-designations |title=Campus Buildings and Landmarks with Historic Designations |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 January 2019 }}</ref> and ten have been listed on the ]: ], ], ], the ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cornell.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ec4c2aa2cf9b4f7faf53b1580b2f131c |title=Historic Designations |website=Cornell Campus Planning Department |access-date=14 January 2019 }}</ref> Three other listed historic buildings, the original Roberts Hall, East Robert Hall, and Stone Hall, were demolished in the 1980s to make way for new campus buildings and development.<ref>{{NRISref|2008a }}</ref>
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==== Central, North, and West campuses ====
====Other====
{{Main|Cornell Central Campus|Cornell North Campus|Cornell West Campus}}
* School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions
The majority of Cornell University's academic and administrative facilities are located on its main campus in Ithaca. The architectural styles on the campus range from ornate ], ], and ] buildings to more spare ] and ] structures. ], designer of ], proposed a "grand terrace" overlooking ] in one of the earliest plans for the development of the campus.<ref>{{cite book |first=Kermit C. |last=Parsons |title=The Cornell Campus: A History of its Planning and Development |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=] |year=1968 |chapter=Chp. 3: A Quadrangle of Stone }}</ref>


North Campus features primarily residential buildings, including ten residence halls designed to accommodate first and second-year students, and transfer students in the Townhouse Community.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://living.cornell.edu/live/wheretolive/residencehalls/ |title=Residence Halls |website=living.cornell.edu |access-date=18 December 2018 }}</ref> The architectural styles of North Campus are more modern, reflecting the growth of the university and need for expanded student housing during the 20th century.
===Non-academic units===
====Cornell University Library====
] Library]]
The ] (CUL) consists of twenty units. One of the twelve largest academic research libraries in the United States by volume, it holds 7 million volumes in open stacks, 8 million microforms, and some 76,000 sound recordings in its collections, in addition to extensive digital resources and the University Archives{{ref|cornell_university_library.collections}}. It was the first among all U.S. colleges and universities to allow undergraduates to borrow books from its libraries.


The West Campus House System showcases a blend of architectural styles, including ]-style buildings and residential halls collectively known as "the Gothics."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://westcampushousesystem.cornell.edu/ |title=West Campus House System |website=westcampushousesystem.cornell.edu |access-date=18 December 2018 }}</ref>
CUL plays an active role in furthering online archiving of scientific and historical documents. The ], created at ] by ], is operated and primarily funded by Cornell as part of CUL's services. The archive has changed the way many physicists and mathematicians communicate, making the ] a viable and popular form for announcing new research.


In Collegetown, located near the campus in Ithaca, the architectural styles are diverse, reflecting the area's mixed-use nature. The Schwartz Performing Arts Center and two upper-level residence halls<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dining.cornell.edu/campuslife/housing/undergraduate/cascadilla-hall.cfm |title=Housing – Cascadilla Hall |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.campuslife.cornell.edu/campuslife/housing/undergraduate/sheldon-court.cfm |title=Sheldon Court |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=21 September 2010 }}</ref> are surrounded by a variety of apartment buildings, eateries, and businesses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B4519B3DC-DFAD-47EE-9E0A-6A55E243E4B4%7D&DE=%7BFEA36033-DB19-4201-9F95-A5F4DAA6DE06%7D |title=Collegetown |publisher=City of Ithaca |access-date=14 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111232615/http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B4519B3DC-DFAD-47EE-9E0A-6A55E243E4B4%7D&DE=%7BFEA36033-DB19-4201-9F95-A5F4DAA6DE06%7D |archive-date=11 November 2007 }}</ref>
The ] initiative creates one resource joining commercial journals with low-cost independent journals in mathematics and statistics. The project is aimed at enabling affordable scholarly communication through the Internet. Besides archival purposes, primary goals of the project is to facilitate journal searches and interoperatibility between different publishers.


====Natural surroundings====
The Cornell Library Digital Collections are online collections of historical documents. Featured collections include the Database of African-American Poetry, the Historic Math Book Collection, the Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection, the Witchcraft Collection, and the Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection.


Cornell University's main campus in Ithaca is located in the ] region in ] and features views of the ], ], and surrounding valleys. The campus is bordered by two ]s, Fall Creek Gorge and Cascadilla Gorge. The gorges are popular swimming spots during warmer months, but their use is discouraged by the university and city code due to potential safety hazards.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=14850 Today |title=Cornell offering free shuttle buses to Buttermilk Falls State Park for two weekends |date=23 August 2013 |url=http://today.14850.com/stories/08232-cornell-buttermilk |access-date=15 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215051916/http://today.14850.com/stories/08232-cornell-buttermilk |archive-date=15 December 2013 }}</ref> Adjacent to the main campus, Cornell owns the 2,800-acre (1,100 ha) ], which features various plants, trees, and ponds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://explore.cornell.edu/scene.cfm?scene=Natural%20Beauty&stop=CU%20%2D%20NB%20%2D%20Campus%20Gardens |title=Explore Cornell – Natural Beauty – Campus Gardens |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=6 April 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030801143414/http://explore.cornell.edu/scene.cfm?scene=Natural%20Beauty&stop=CU%20-%20NB%20-%20Campus%20Gardens |archive-date=1 August 2003 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
====Cornell University Press====
], established in ], but inactive from about ] to ], was the first university publishing enterprise in the United States and is one of the country's largest university presses{{ref|cornell_university_press.history}}. It produces approximately 150 titles each year in various disciplines including anthropology, classics, cultural studies, history, literary criticism and theory, medieval studies, philosophy, politics and international relations, psychology and psychiatry, and women's studies.
Established in the College of the Mechanic Arts (as mechanical engineering was called in the 1800s), probably because engineers knew more than literature professors did about running steam-powered printing presses, the Cornell University Press offered work-study financial aid when tuition to Cornell cost $75 a year. Students with previous training in the printing trades were paid to set the type and run the presses that printed textbooks, a weekly student journal, pamphlets and official university publications, such as the annual “Register” book. An advertisement in the 1870 “Register” said that America’s first university press “solicits the patronage of the public for two reasons: First, it attempts to do its work well. Second, its employees are all young men who are endeavoring, by means of their own labor, to defer the expenses of a University education”.


====Sustainability====
==The campuses==
{{Further|Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future}}
===Main campus===
Cornell University has implemented several ], designed to promote sustainability and reduce environmental impact, including a gas-fired combined heat and power facility,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/10/01_22_10.pdf |title=Cornell moves beyond coal with combined heat and power plant |work=Cornell Chronicle |first=Bill |last=Steele |date=22 January 2010 |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> an on-campus hydroelectric plant,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.utilities.cornell.edu/utl_hydroelectricplant.html |title=Hydroelectric Plant |access-date=24 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502011959/http://www.utilities.cornell.edu/utl_hydroelectricplant.html |archive-date=2 May 2010 }}</ref> and a ] system.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.utilities.cornell.edu/utl_lscabout.html |title=Lake Source Cooling : An Idea Whose Time Has Come |access-date=24 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629072724/http://www.utilities.cornell.edu/utl_lscabout.html |archive-date=29 June 2008 }}</ref> In 2007, Cornell established a Center for a Sustainable Future<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sustainablefuture.cornell.edu/about/ |title=About the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> The same year, following a multiyear, cross-campus discussion about energy and sustainability, Cornell's ] was established, funded by an $80 million gift from alumnus David R. Atkinson ('60) and his wife Patricia, the largest gift ever received by Cornell from an individual at the time. A subsequent $30 million commitment in 2021 will name a new building on campus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Atkinsons' $30M gift to name multidisciplinary building {{!}} Cornell Chronicle |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/03/atkinsons-30m-gift-name-multidisciplinary-building |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=news.cornell.edu |language=en }}</ref>
].]] Cornell's main campus is located on the eastern hill of ], overlooking the city. Day Hall, the administration building, is located on East Avenue. The campus itself is situated on a rolling site of 745 acres (3 km&sup2;) on East Hill, overlooking ] and downtown Ithaca two miles (3 km) to the west. Over time, the campus has had numerous layouts proposed. The original one was created by ], designer of ] and numerous other college campuses. The changing plans have evolved into the 260 or so major buildings mostly divided into quads for the Arts, Engineering, and Agriculture, a science lab complex, and the athletic complex.


As of 2020, the university, which has committed to achieving net carbon neutrality by 2035<ref>{{cite report |title=2016 Climate Neutral Campus Energy Alternatives Report |publisher=Senior Leaders Climate Action Group (SLCAG) |date=August 2016 |url=https://sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2018-12/2016%20Cornell%20University%20-%20Carbon%20Neutral%20Campus%20Energy%20Alternatives%20Report%20CNCEAR%20-%20Report%20(1).pdf |access-date=7 December 2020 }}</ref> is powered by six solar farms, which provide 28 megawatts of power.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Renewable Energy {{!}} Sustainable Campus |url=https://sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/campus-initiatives/buildings-energy/campus-energy/renewable-energy |access-date=8 December 2020 |website=sustainablecampus.cornell.edu }}</ref> Cornell is developing an enhanced geothermal system, known as Earth Source Heating, designed to meet campus heating needs.<ref>Cathles L.M. "Hydrologic challenges to heating Cornellusing Earth Source Heat (ESH) and a strategy for meeting them" Cornell University. 10 February 2020. Retrieved on 28 November 2020</ref>
Central Campus is bounded to its north and south by limestone gorges and waterfalls. Dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and student centers are located on North Campus, north of Fall Creek Gorge, and on West Campus, at the bottom of the Library Slope ("Libe Slope"). After snowfalls, students are known to sled down the Slope on trays from the dining halls. East of the main campus lie the ], approximately 3,600 acres (15 km&sup2;) encompassing botanical gardens and the ], as well as natural woodlands, trails, streams, and gorges. South of Cascadilla Gorge lies the student-oriented Collegetown business and residential district.


In 2023, Cornell was the first university in the nation to commit to ] emission reductions.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 September 2023 |title=Cornell Administration Reaches Agreement with Cornell Kyoto Now! Students {{!}} Sustainable Campus |url=https://sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/news/cornell-administration-reaches-agreement-cornell-kyoto-now-students |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=sustainablecampus.cornell.edu |language=en }}</ref> The same year, a concert held at Barton Hall by ] raised $3.1 million for ] and the Cornell 2030 Project, two organizations which have contributed to the establishment of the Climate Solutions Fund and aims to catalyze large-scale, impactful climate research across the university, which will be administered by the Atkinson Center.<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 July 2023 |title=Dead & Company's Barton Hall concert raised over $3 million for charity – 97.1fm The Drive – WDRV Chicago |url=https://wdrv.com/dead-companys-barton-hall-concert-raised-over-3-million-for-charity/ |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=97.1fm The Drive - WDRV Chicago |language=en-US }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dead & Co concert proceeds fund climate solutions {{!}} Cornell Chronicle |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/12/dead-co-concert-proceeds-fund-climate-solutions |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=news.cornell.edu |language=en }}</ref>
] The first building, Morrill Hall, was erected in ], although Cascadilla Hall, a dormitory in Collegetown, predates the university (it was originally used as a water-cure sanitarium and school for the education of women physicians and nurses when it was built in 1864{{ref|main_campus.cascadilla}}). Cornell's signature landmark is McGraw Tower, which rises 173 feet and 161 steps from the ground. Constructed in ] adjoining Uris Library, it features the ], 21 bells on which the Cornell chimesmasters play three daily concerts. The clock tower has been the target of a number of pranks. In 1997, a large pumpkin{{ref|main_campus.clocktower_pumpkin}} was placed on spire of the clock tower and a disco ball{{ref|main_campus.clocktower_discoball}} in 2005. How either prank was engineered has not been discovered.


===New York City campuses===
Contrasting with the ], ], and ] buildings on the Arts Quad is the ], designed by ]. Other notable buildings: Willard Straight Hall, one of the earliest student unions{{ref|main_campus.willard_straight_hall}}; Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, the largest academic building in the eastern United States; Duffield Hall, one of the world's most advanced nanotechnology facilities; and the Statler Hotel, adjacent to and associated with the School of Hotel Administration.
====Weill Cornell====
{{Main|Weill Cornell Medicine}}
], the medical school of Cornell University, located on the ] on the ] of New York City]]
Cornell's medical campus in New York City, also called Weill Cornell, is on the ] of ]. It is home to two Cornell divisions, ], the university's medical school, and ]. Since 1927, Weill Cornell has been affiliated with ], one of the nation's largest hospitals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.med.cornell.edu/about |series=Weill Medical College |title=About us |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=4 July 2006 }}</ref> While Cornell's medical school maintains its own faculty and academic divisions, it shares administrative and teaching hospital functions with ].<ref>{{cite web |title=About us |department=Careers / locations |publisher=] |url=http://careers.nyp.org/about-us/locations/ |url-status=dead |access-date=12 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812212715/http://careers.nyp.org/about-us/locations/ |archive-date=12 August 2014 }}</ref> In addition to NewYork-Presbyterian, Cornell's teaching hospitals include Payne Whitney Clinic in Manhattan and its Westchester Division in ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nyp.org/services/psychiatry.html |title=Psychiatry and Mental Health |publisher=] |access-date=22 September 2010 }}</ref> Weill Cornell Medical College is affiliated with neighboring ], one of the nation's leading cancer centers, ], and the ]. Many faculty members have joint appointments at these institutions. Weill Cornell, Rockefeller, and Memorial Sloan–Kettering offer the ], which is available to selected entering Cornell medical students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.med.cornell.edu/mdphd/ |title=Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering &#124; Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program |publisher=Med.cornell.edu |access-date=7 October 2011 }}</ref> From 1942 to 1979, the Weill Cornell Medical campus also housed the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.med.cornell.edu/archives/history/nurses_training.html?name1=New+York+Training+School+for+Nurses&type1=2Active |title=New York Hospital Training School for Nurses (Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing) |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref>


===New York City campus=== ====Cornell Tech====
{{Main|Cornell Tech}}
The New York Weill Cornell Medical Center is located on the ] of ], ]. It is home both to the ] and ], and has a long affiliation with the ]. Although their faculty and academic divisions remain separate, the Medical Center shares its administrative functions with the ]. Weill Cornell Medical College is also affiliated with the neighboring ], ], and the ]. Many faculty have joint appointments at these institutions, and Weill Cornell, Rockefeller, and MSKCC offer a Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program to selected entering Cornell medical students.
] on ] in New York City, a graduate campus and research center]]
On 19 December 2011, Cornell and ] in ] won a competition for rights to claim free city land and $100&nbsp;million in subsidies to build an engineering campus in New York City. The competition, established by former ] ], was designed to increase entrepreneurship and job growth in New York City's technology sector. The winning bid consisted of a 2.1&nbsp;million square foot state-of-the-art tech campus to be built on ], on the site of the former ]. The following year, in fall 2012, instruction began at a temporary location at space donated by Google, located at ] in ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec11/NYCcover.html |title='Game-changing' tech campus goes to Cornell, Technion |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=17 December 2011 }}</ref> In 2014, construction began on the Cornell Tech campus, and the first phase was completed in September 2017. ] of ] was selected to design Cornell Tech's first building.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/nyregion/cornell-high-tech-opens-roosevelt-island.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913043317/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/nyregion/cornell-high-tech-opens-roosevelt-island.html |archive-date=13 September 2017 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |first=Elizabeth |last=Harris |title=High Tech and High Design, Cornell's Roosevelt Island Campus Opens |date=13 September 2017 }}</ref>


====Other New York City programs====
New York City is also home to local offices of the Cornell ], to an office of the ILR (Industrial and Labor Relations) Extension, to an office of the College of Architecture, Art & Planning, and to Cornell's Operations Research Manhattan Center. These facilities are all separate from and operated independently of the medical center.
] in ].<ref name="570Lex" />]]
In addition to the tech campus and medical center, Cornell maintains local offices in New York City for some of its service programs. The Cornell Urban Scholars Program encourages students to pursue public service careers, arranging assignments with organizations working with New York City's poorest children, families, and communities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cusp.cornell.edu |title=Cornell Urban Scholars Program |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 May 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619074142/http://www.cusp.cornell.edu/ |archive-date=19 June 2006 }}</ref> The ] and ] enable students to reach out to local communities by gardening and building with the Cornell Cooperative Extension.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cce.cornell.edu/learnAbout/Pages/About.aspx |title=Cornell Cooperative Extension – About Extension |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> Students om the ] Extension and Outreach Program make workplace expertise available to organizations, union members, policymakers, and working adults.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/explore/outreach |title=ILR: Extension & Outreach Program |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 May 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615034610/http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/explore/outreach/ |archive-date=15 June 2006 }}</ref> The ] Operations Research Manhattan, located in the city's ], brings together business optimization research and decision support services used in financial applications and public health logistics planning.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://manhattan.orie.cornell.edu |title=Operations Research Manhattan |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=16 December 2010 }}</ref> In 2015, the ] opened an 11,000&nbsp;square foot, ]-designed facility at ] in Manhattan's Financial District.<ref>{{cite press release |author=Aloi, Daniel |date=9 April 2015 |title=Bird's-eye view of NYC for Architecture, Art and Planning |publisher=Cornell University Press Office |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/04/bird-s-eye-view-nyc-architecture-art-and-planning }}</ref> The ] at 570 ] serves as the New York City location for over a dozen additional Cornell University programs, including the New York City headquarters of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the New York City branch of the Cornell Cooperative Extension.<ref name="570Lex">{{cite web |title=570 Lexington Avenue |url=https://www.cornell.edu/about/locations/nyc/570-lexington.cfm |website=About Cornell University |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=9 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231209171600/https://www.cornell.edu/about/locations/nyc/570-lexington.cfm |archive-date=9 December 2023 |location=Ithaca, New York }}</ref>


===Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar===
===Other campuses===
{{Main|Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar}}
]
In September 2004, Cornell opened the ] in ], near ], which is the first U.S. medical school established outside of the United States. The college, which is a joint initiative with the ], is part of Cornell's efforts to increase its international influence.<ref name=aboutqatar/> The college, a full four-year ] program, mirrors the medical school curriculum taught at ] in New York City. The college also offers a two-year undergraduate ] program, which has a separate admissions process and was established as an undergraduate program in September 2002 as the first coeducational institute of higher education in Qatar.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://cunews.cornell.edu/releases/April01/weill.qatar.html |title=Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar |publisher=Cornell News Service |access-date=23 May 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119025229/http://cunews.cornell.edu/releases/April01/weill.qatar.html |archive-date=19 January 2012 }}</ref>
The ], operated by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is located in ], 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the main campus. The facility now comprises 20 major buildings on 130 acres (0.5 km&sup2;) of land, as well as over 700 acres (2.8 km&sup2;) of test plots and other lands devoted to horticultural research. It also operates three substations, Vineyard Research Laboratory in ], Hudson Valley Laboratory in ] and the Long Island Horticultural Research Laboratory in ].


The college is partially funded by the Qatar government through the ], a ] state-led non-profit organization, which contributed $750&nbsp;million for its construction.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cornellsun.com/node/17482 |title=Cornell, Qatar and Hamas |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |access-date=18 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607061049/http://www.cornellsun.com/node/17482 |archive-date=7 June 2011 }}</ref> The medical center is housed in a large two-story structure designed by ], a Japanese architect.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cornell.edu/academics/colleges.cfm |title=Colleges, Schools, and Faculties |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 May 2006 }}</ref> In 2004, the Qatar Foundation, announced the construction of a 350-bed Specialty Teaching Hospital near the medical college in Education City, which was to be completed in a few years.<ref name=aboutqatar/>
The ], located in ], near ], is housed in a large two-story structure designed by ].


===Other facilities===
The Shoals Marine Laboratory, a seasonal marine field station dedicated to undergraduate education and research operated in conjunction with the ], is located on the 95 acre (0.4 km&sup2;) Appledore Island off the ]–] coast.
Cornell University owns and operates a variety of off-campus research facilities and offers study abroad and scholarship programs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.international.cornell.edu/unit |title=International Gateway |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=25 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617110255/http://www.international.cornell.edu/unit/ |archive-date=17 June 2006 }}</ref> These facilities and programs contribute to the university's research endeavors and provide students with unique learning opportunities.


====Research facilities====
The ] in ], site of the world's largest single-dish ], is operated by Cornell.
{{Further|Cornell Lab of Ornithology|New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University}}
] memorial on Cornell's ] in Ithaca]]
], designed by ]]]
Cornell's off-campus research facilities include Shoals Marine Laboratory, a seasonal marine field station on ] off the ]–] coast, which is operated in conjunction with the ] and focuses on undergraduate education and research.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_welcome_mission.html |title=Welcome – Our Mission |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> Until 2011, Cornell operated ] in ], which was the site of the world's largest single-dish ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.naic.edu |title=Aricebo Observatory |publisher=National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center |access-date=22 May 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508105758/http://www.naic.edu/ |archive-date=8 May 2006 }}</ref>


The university maintains several facilities dedicated to ] and ecology, including the ] in ], which operates three substations, the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory in ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/lake-erie/ |title=Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> the Hudson Valley Laboratory in ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/hudson/index.php |title=Hudson Valley Research Laboratory |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> and the Long Island Horticultural Research Laboratory in ] on ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hort.cals.cornell.edu/cals/hort/about/facilities/other_sites.cfm#longisland |title=Other sites |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> The ] in Ithaca conducts research on ] in birds.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us, Annual Report, Staff Directory, Visit, Cornell Lab of Ornithology |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://www.birds.cornell.edu/netcommunity/page.aspx?pid=1609 |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref>
Cornell University maintains facilities in ] and ] for its Cornell in Washington, Urban Semester, and Urban Scholars Programs.


Additional research facilities include the Animal Science Teaching and Research Center, the Duck Research Laboratory, the Cornell Biological Field Station, the Freeville Organic Research Farm, the Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm, and biodiversity laboratories in ] in the ] and the ] in Peru.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/facilities.html |title=Facilities – Department of Animal Science |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.duckhealth.com/ducklab.html |title=Duck Research Laboratory |publisher=International Duck Research Cooperative, Inc. |access-date=22 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513105412/http://www.duckhealth.com/ducklab.html |archive-date=13 May 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/fieldst/cbfs.htm |title=Cornell Biological Field Station |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060221023530/http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/fieldst/cbfs.htm<!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=21 February 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/3.6.03/PuntaCana_consortium.html |title=Biodiversity lab in Punta Cana expands into a new consortium |publisher=Cornell News Service |access-date=22 May 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://labs.plantbio.cornell.edu/cbl/EsBaran.html |title=Cornell Undergraduate Research Program on Biodiversity |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=30 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060712090820/http://labs.plantbio.cornell.edu/cbl/EsBaran.html |archive-date=12 July 2006 }}</ref><ref name=factbook/>
Other facilities include

* ] in Sapsucker Woods in ]
====Study abroad and scholarship programs====
* Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point in ]
Cornell offers various study abroad and scholarship programs, which allow students to gain experience and earn credit towards their degrees. The "Capital Semester" program offers students the opportunity to intern in the ] in ], the state capital. The Cornell in Washington program enables students to spend a semester in Washington, D.C., participating in research or internships.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ciw.cornell.edu |title=Cornell in Washington |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 May 2006 }}</ref> The Cornell in Rome program allows students to study architecture, urban studies, and the arts in ], Italy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rome.cornell.edu |title=Cornell in Rome |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 May 2006 }}</ref> The university is also a member of the ] program, which provides funding to undergraduates to conduct internationally focused research and foster leadership skills.<ref>{{cite web |title=Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program |url=https://einaudi.cornell.edu/laidlaw |publisher=Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies |access-date=22 January 2024 }}</ref>
* Punta Cana and EsBaran biodiversity field stations in the ] and ]

* Arnot Teaching and Research Forest natural resources center in ] and ] Counties.
====Cooperative extension service====
* Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in ], and Duck Research Laboratory in ]
As New York state's ], Cornell operates a ], which includes 56 offices across the state. These offices provide programs in agriculture and food systems, children, youth and families, community and economic vitality, environment and natural resources, and nutrition and health.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cce.cornell.edu/learnAbout/Pages/About.aspx |title=Cornell Cooperative Extension – About Extension |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=26 July 2010 }}</ref> The university operates New York's Animal Health Diagnostic Center, which conducts animal disease control and husbandry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ahdc.vet.cornell.edu/ |title=NYS Animal Health Diagnostic Center at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=26 July 2010 }}</ref>
* Offices of the New York Sea Grant, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and School of Industrial and Labor Relations Extension Service throughout New York State

* Offices for Cornell-administered study abroad programs such as the Cornell-Nepal Study Program and Cornell-in-Rome
==Organization and administration==
Cornell University is a nonprofit organization with a decentralized structure in which its 16 colleges, including 12 privately endowed colleges and four publicly supported statutory colleges, exercise significant autonomy to define and manage their respective academic programs, admissions, advising, and confer degrees. Cornell also operates ], which provides online professional development and certificate programs<ref name="About_eCornell">{{cite web |url=https://ecornell.cornell.edu/about-ecornell/ |title=About eCornell |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=23 September 2009 }}</ref> and participates in New York's land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant programs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/article.asp?ArticleID=39 |title=NYSG: What is New York Sea Grant? |publisher=New York Sea Grant |access-date=19 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012002549/http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/article.asp?ArticleID=39 |archive-date=12 October 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu/specialprograms/spacegrant/ |title=New York NASA Space Grant Consortium |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=19 September 2010 }}</ref>
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! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | '''Cornell University colleges and schools'''
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1874
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1871
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1865
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1946
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| ]|| style="text-align: center;" | 2020
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1870
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1909
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1922
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1925
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| ]||style="text-align: center;"| 1945
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1887
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1952
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 1898
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| ]|| style="text-align: center;" | 2021
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| ] ||style="text-align: center;"| 2011
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| ]||style="text-align: center;"| 1894
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===Governance and administration===
{{Further|Michael Kotlikoff}}

Cornell University was chartered by an act of the ] (Chapter 585 of the Laws of 1865) which was later codified into Article 115 (sections 5701 through 5716) of the Education Law of the ].<ref name="Cornell_Charter">{{cite web |title=Charter of Cornell University |url=https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/cornell150/exhibition/charter/cu_charter_ammended.pdf |website=Cornell University Library |date=22 May 2002 }}</ref>

Cornell University is governed by a 64-member board of trustees, which includes both privately and publicly appointed trustees appointed by the ], alumni-elected trustees, faculty-elected trustees, student-elected trustees,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/newscornell?a=d&srpos=2&cl=search&d=CDS19810512.2.10.2&e=--------20--1----Earl+Schuyler+Flansburgh-all |title=Trustees Discuss Role Students Play on Board |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |volume=97 |number=140 |page=10 |date=12 May 1981 |access-date=8 December 2010 }}</ref> and non-academic staff-elected trustees. The Governor, ], ], and president of the university serve in '']'' voting capacities. The board is responsible for electing a President to serve as the university's chief executive and educational officer.<ref name=Bylaws>{{cite web |url=http://www.cornell.edu/trustees/docs/012210-cu-bylaws.pdf |title=Bylaws of Cornell University |publisher=Board of Trustees, Cornell University |access-date=2 October 2010 }}</ref><ref>New York State Education Law §5703.</ref> From 2014 to 2022, ] served as chairman of the board. He was succeeded by Kraig Kayser.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/03/robert-harrison-elected-next-chair-cornells-board |title=Robert Harrison elected next chair of Cornell's board, succeeding Peter Meinig |newspaper=Cornell Chronicle |last=Kelley |first=Susan |access-date=4 November 2015 }}</ref> The Board of Trustees holds four regular meetings annually, which are subject to the New York State Open Meetings Law.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/newscornell?a=d&srpos=26&cl=search&d=CDS19810527.2.3.1&e=--------20--21----open+meeting+law+cornell+trustees-all |title=Court Rules Against C.U. In Open Meetings Appeal University Limits Public Access |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |date=27 May 1981 |access-date=14 December 2010 |volume=97 |number=144 |author=Jon Landsman }}</ref>

The university charter (specifically, paragraph 1.b of section 5703 of the Education Law) provides that one member of the board, the life trustee, is the eldest living lineal descendant of Ezra Cornell.<ref name="Cornell_Charter" /> As of 2024, the current and longest-serving life trustee is Ezra Cornell, class of 1971, the great-great-great-grandson of the original Ezra Cornell.<ref name="Wilensky">{{cite news |last1=Wilensky |first1=Joe |title=A Conversation with Life Trustee Ezra Cornell '70, BS '71 |url=https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/life-trustee-ezra-cornell/ |work=Cornellians |date=13 February 2024 }}</ref> He celebrated 50 years of service as a board member in 2019.<ref name="Wilensky" /> His eldest daughter Katy Cornell, class of 2001, is expected to become the next life trustee.<ref name="Wilensky" />

On 1 July 2024, ], who served as Cornell's 16th provost, began a two-year term as interim president,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Moving Cornell forward together {{!}} University Statements {{!}} Cornell University |url=https://statements.cornell.edu/2024/20240701-forward-together.cfm |access-date=1 July 2024 |website=statements.cornell.edu }}</ref> succeeding ], Cornell's ], who announced her retirement in May 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lefkowitz |first=Melanie |date=9 May 2024 |title=After 'transformational' tenure, Pollack to retire June 30 |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/05/after-transformational-tenure-pollack-retire-june-30 |access-date=9 May 2024 |website=news.cornell.edu |language=en }}</ref>

===Colleges and academic structure===
Cornell's colleges and schools offer a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs, including seven ] colleges and seven schools offering graduate and professional programs. All academic departments at Cornell are affiliated with at least one college. Several inter-school academic departments offer courses in more than one college. Students pursuing graduate degrees in these schools are enrolled in ]. The ] provides additional programs for college and high school students, professionals, and other adults.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sce.cornell.edu |title=School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=2 June 2006 }}</ref>

Cornell's four ]s include the ], ], ], and ]. In the 2010–2011 fiscal year, these four colleges received $131.9 million in ] (SUNY) appropriations to support teaching, research, and service missions, making them accountable to SUNY trustees and state agencies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.suny.edu/GovtRelations/state/pdf/BudgetDocument.pdf |title=State University of New York 2010–2011 Budget |access-date=19 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/60ExSq6zT?url=http://www.suny.edu/GovtRelations/state/pdf/BudgetDocument.pdf |archive-date=17 July 2011 }}</ref><ref name=Ramanujan>{{Cite news |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April07/2007StateBudget.kr.html |title=State budget pleases CU administrators |last=Ramanujan |first=Krishna |date=17 April 2007 |work=The Cornell Chronicle |access-date=26 July 2010 }}</ref><ref name="Graffeo 2005">{{cite web |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/nyctap/search/display.html?terms=&url=/nyctap/I05_0016.htm |title=3 No. 14: In the Matter of Jeremy W. Alderson v. New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, et al. |last=Graffeo |first=Victoria A. |date=17 February 2005 |publisher=] |access-date=20 September 2010 }}</ref> New York residents enrolled in these colleges qualify for discounted tuition; however, their academic activities are considered by New York state to be private and non-state entities.<ref name="Spitzer 2005">{{cite web |url=http://www.oag.state.ny.us/bureaus/appeals_opinions/opinions/2005/formal/2005_f2.pdf |title=Agreements between state agencies and Cornell University to procure academic services from the statutory or contract colleges administered by Cornell should be regarded as contracts between a state party and a non-state party. |last=Spitzer |first=Eliot |publisher=New York State |date=14 September 2005 |access-date=26 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326111507/http://www.oag.state.ny.us/bureaus/appeals_opinions/opinions/2005/formal/2005_f2.pdf |archive-date=26 March 2009 }}</ref><sup>:1</sup> The Brooks School of Public Policy is a subpart of the College of Human Ecology, and the ] is a subpart of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Cornell's nine privately endowed, non-statutory colleges include the ], ], ], and ], each of which operate independently of state funding and oversight, which grants them greater autonomy in determining their academic programs, admissions, and advising. They also do not offer discounted tuition for New York residents.

As of 2023, among Cornell's 15,182 undergraduate students, 4,602 (30.3%) are affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences, which is the largest college by enrollment, followed by 3,203 (21.1%) in Engineering, and 3,101 (20.4%) in Agriculture and Life Sciences. The smallest of the seven undergraduate colleges is Architecture, Art, and Planning, with 503 (3.3%) students.<ref name=IRP_E/> Academic requirements for graduation are developed and managed by the respective colleges, and university-wide requirements for a ] degree include passing a swimming test, completing two ] courses, and satisfying a writing requirement. <!-- This section is out of date and would be better captured as a table, pie chart, or other visual representation. -->

===Fundraising and financial support===
As of 2024, Cornell University has an endowment of $10.7 billion,<ref name="endowment">{{cite press release |title=University endowment posts 'strong' gain in FY 2024 |date=15 October 2024 |publisher=Cornell University News Service |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/10/university-endowment-posts-strong-gain-fy-2024 |access-date=15 October 2024 }}</ref> the ] among all U.S. universities and colleges. In 2018, Cornell ranked third among all U.S. universities behind ] and ] in private fundraising, collecting $743 million.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cornellsun.com/2018/11/15/cornell-takes-ninth-place-for-most-donated-to-non-profit-nationally-with-743-million |title=Cornell Takes Ninth Place for Most Donated-To Non-Profit Nationally with $743 Million |date=15 November 2018 }}</ref> In addition to the university development program in Ithaca and New York City, each college and program has its own staffed fundraising programs. Cornell University has a robust ], and it has been the recipient of several sizable private donations, which have enabled the university to expand its reach, create new programs, and drive advancements in education and research.

In 1998, ] was renamed in recognition of 1955 Cornell alumnus ], former chairman and CEO of ], and his wife, following their $100 million donation to the university. As of 2013, the Weills have provided over $600 million in total donations to the university.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2013/09/weill-cornell-medical-college-receives-100-million-gift-from-joan-and-sanford-i-weill-and-the-weill-1 |title=Weill Cornell Medical College Receives $100 Million Gift from Joan and Sanford I. Weill and the Weill Family Foundation to Launch New Capital Campaign }}</ref>

In 2010, the ] was established following an $80 million donation from David Atkinson and his wife, Patricia.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cornellsun.com/2010/10/28/atkinson-60-gives-80-million-to-fund-center-for-a-sustainable-future |title=Atkinson '60 Gives $80 Million to Fund Center for a Sustainable Future |date=30 November 2001 }}</ref>

In 2011, ], a 1956 alumnus and founder of Hong Kong-based ], became the university's largest private donor in the university's history, giving $1 billion to the university to fund ], a technology-focused campus on ] in New York City, and other initiatives.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/nyregion/cornell-and-technion-israel-chosen-to-build-science-school-in-new-york-city.html |title=Cornell Alumnus is Behind $350 Million Gift to Build Science School in City |work=The New York Times |date=19 December 2011 |last1=Pérez-Peña |first1=Richard }}</ref>

In 2015, Joan and ], a 1956 alumnus and founder of ], donated $133 million to fund the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tech.cornell.edu/news/joan-and-irwin-jacobs-announce-133-million-naming-gift-for-technion-cornell/ |title=Cornell Tech – Joan and Irwin Jacobs Announce $133-Million Naming Gift for Technion-Cornell |date=22 April 2013 }}</ref>

In 2017, the university received a $150 million donation from ], an alumnus with five Cornell degrees and chairman and CEO of ], to create the ], representing the second-largest gift in history to a business school.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/01/150m-gift-founds-cornell-sc-johnson-college-business |title=$150M gift founds Cornell SC Johnson College of Business }}</ref>


==Academics== ==Academics==
Cornell is a large and primarily residential research university, and a majority of its students are enrolled in undergraduate programs.<ref name="Carnegie">{{cite web |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=190415 |title=Institution Profile – Cornell University |publisher=Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |access-date={{today}} }}</ref> Since 1921, the university has been ] by the ] and its predecessor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dpb.cornell.edu/IP_A_Accreditation.htm |title=Accreditation Overview |publisher=Division of Planning and Budget, Cornell University |access-date=30 September 2010 }}</ref> Cornell operates on a 4–1–4 academic calendar with the fall term beginning in late August and ending in early December, a three-week winter session in January, and the spring term beginning in late January and ending in early May.<ref>{{cite web |title=Academic Calendar 2010–2011 – 2014–2015 |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/academic_calendar.pdf |access-date=30 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923215714/http://cornell.edu/academics/calendar/academic_calendar.pdf |archive-date=23 September 2010 }}</ref>
For the undergraduate class of 2009, 27.1% of ] were admitted. Over 88% of them graduated in the top 10% of their high school class (among schools reporting class rank){{ref|academics.admission}}. Cornell's enrollment includes students from over 120 countries and all fifty ]s.

Cornell is a ], ], and ] university, and until 2014 was a ] university as well.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Northeast SunGrant Initiative |url=https://blogs.cornell.edu/nesungrant/ |access-date=5 December 2024 |website=blogs.cornell.edu }}</ref>

===Admissions===
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| ref = <ref name=CDS2020 />
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| SAT EBRW change =
| SAT Math = 750–800<!-- use an em-dash (–) -->
| SAT Math change =
| ACT = 33–35<!-- use an em-dash (–) -->
| ACT change =
| top decile = 83.7%
| top decile change =
| top quarter = 97.7%
| top quarter change =
| top half = 99.9%
| top half change =
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}}
Admission to Cornell University is highly competitive. In fall 2022, Cornell's undergraduate programs for its Class of 2026 included 71,164 applications from which only 5,168, or 6.9% applicants, were accepted.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/university-factbook/undergraduate-admissions/ |title=University Factbook – Undergraduate Admissions |website=Cornell University Institutional Research & Planning |date=19 September 2022}}</ref> For enrolling freshmen, the middle 50% range of ] scores were 700–760 for evidence-based reading and writing and 750–800 for mathematics, and the middle 50% range of the ] composite score was 33–35.<ref name=CDS2020>{{cite web |url=http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Profile2021-first-year.pdf |title=Profile: Class of 2025}}</ref>

The university attract a diverse and inclusive student body. In 2022, the proportion of admitted students who self-identify as underrepresented minorities increased to 34.2%, up from 33.7% in 2021, and 59.3% self-identify as students of color, an increase from 52.5% in 2017 and 57.2% in 2020. Among the 5,168 admitted in 2022, 1,163 were first-generation college students, up from 844 in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Accepted Class of 2025 impresses during 'a year like no other' |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/04/accepted-class-2025-impresses-during-year-no-other |access-date=15 May 2021 |first=Joe |last=Wilensky |date=7 April 2021 |website=Cornell Chronicle |language=en }}</ref> The university practices ] for U.S. applicants.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/02/24/cornell-changes-to-need-aware-policy/ |title=Cornell changes to need-aware policy |work=Yale Daily News |first=Jon |last=Victor |date=24 February 2016 |access-date=24 February 2016 |archive-date=25 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225102943/http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/02/24/cornell-changes-to-need-aware-policy/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Financial aid===
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Cornell University, under Section 9 of its original charter, ensures equal access to education by admitting students without distinction based on rank, class, occupation, or locality.<ref name=charter>{{cite book |title=Report of the Commissioner of Education, with circulars and documents accompanying the same |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jm8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA191 |access-date=26 July 2010 |year=1868 |publisher=] / U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=191–192 |chapter=An Act to establish Cornell University, and to appropriate to it the income of the sale of public lands granted to this State by Act of Congress, July 2, 1862.}}</ref> The charter also mandates free instruction for one student from each Assembly district in New York state.<ref name=charter />

From the 1950s to the 1980s, Cornell collaborated with other ] institutions to establish a uniform ] system.<ref name="2005-06 Financial Plan">{{cite web |url=http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000030.pdf |publisher=Cornell University |title=2005–06 Financial Plan |page=5 }}</ref> Although a 1989 consent decree ended this collaboration due to an antitrust investigation, all Ivy League schools still offer need-based financial aid without athletic scholarships.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/WhatIsIvy/compliance.asp |publisher=] |title=NCAA Rules: A guide for Ivy Alumni and Friends of Athletics |access-date=11 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308165649/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/WhatIsIvy/compliance.asp |archive-date=8 March 2008}}</ref> In December 2010, Cornell pledged to match any grant component of financial aid offers from the seven other Ivy League schools and ] and ] for accepted applicants considering these institutions.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec10/AidMatch.html |title=Cornell to match financial aid offers of peer universities |date=7 December 2010 |newspaper=Cornell Chronicle |access-date=8 December 2010}}</ref>

In 2008, Cornell introduced a financial aid initiative, which incrementally replaced need-based loans with scholarships for undergraduate students from lower-income families.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2008/12/05/cu’s-new-aid-plan-will-help-during-econ-crisis |title=C.U.'s New Aid Plan Will Help During Econ. Crisis |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |date=5 December 2008 |access-date=15 December 2010 |first=Sam |last=Cross |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910104917/http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2008/12/05/cu%E2%80%99s-new-aid-plan-will-help-during-econ-crisis |archive-date=10 September 2011}}</ref> Despite a 27% drop in the university's endowment in 2008, attributable partly to the ], Cornell president ] allocated additional funds to continue the initiative, and sought to raise $125 million in donations for its support.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Trustees approve budget cuts to safeguard strength of Cornell |publisher=Cornell University |date=25 January 2009 |first=David |last=Skorton |url=http://www.cornell.edu/president/statements/2009/20090125-fy2009-budget.cfm |access-date=26 July 2010}}</ref> Two years later, in 2010, Cornell was able to successfully meet the full financial aid needs of 40% of full-time freshmen with financial need. The average undergraduate student debt upon graduation, as of 2010, was $21,549.<ref name=fa>{{cite web |url=http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=15&profileId=2 |title=College Search – Cornell University |publisher=College Board |access-date=14 December 2010}}</ref>


===International programs=== ===International programs===
{{Further|Cornell University Southeast Asia Program|Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar}}
Cornell offers a wide array of programs and undergraduate majors with an international focus, including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], the ], the ], and the newly-launched China and Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS). In addition to these academic programs, to the ] and to its study abroad programs on six continents{{ref|international_programs.study_abroad}}, Cornell has undertaken a number of major initiatives overseas:
], a traditional folk dance from India, in 2008]]
*In ], Cornell has an agreement with ] in which students in the CAPS major will spend a semester in ].
Cornell University is actively involved in fostering international cooperation and engagement through various academic programs, research collaborations, and global partnerships. The university is a member of ], aligns itself with United Nations' goals, and promotes international collaboration among institutions of higher education.
*The ] has an agreement to exchange faculty and graduate students with ] in ]{{ref|international_programs.china}}.
*The ] has a joint master's program with ] in ]{{ref|international_programs.japan}}.
*The ] has signed an agreement with ]'s ] to engage in joint research, and to exchange graduate students and faculty members.
*The ] has agreed to cooperate in agricultural research with the ]{{ref|international_programs.india}}.
*In the ], Cornell is developing the Bridging the Rift Center{{ref|international_programs.bridging_the_rift}}, a "Library of Life" (or databank about all living systems) on the border of ] and ], in collaboration with those two countries and ].


==== Academic programs and study abroad opportunities ====
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Cornell offers a wide range of undergraduate majors with an international focus, including African Studies, Asian-Pacific American Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Latino Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Studies, and Russian Literature.<ref name="factbook" /> Students have the opportunity to study abroad on any of the six continents through various programs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cuabroad.cornell.edu/programchoices/regions.asp |title=Cornell Abroad – University & Program Choices |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=1 January 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051230172448/http://www.cuabroad.cornell.edu/programchoices/regions.asp |archive-date=30 December 2005}}</ref>


The Asian Studies major, the ], and the China and Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) major provide opportunities for students and researchers focusing on Asia. Cornell has an agreement with ], which allows CAPS students to spend a semester in Beijing.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/Rawlings_China_signing.html |title=Cornell China major sealed in Beijing as Rawlings signs agreement with Peking University |publisher=Cornell News Service |access-date=1 January 2006}}</ref> The ] exchanges faculty and graduate students with ] in Beijing, and the ] has a joint master's program with ] in Singapore.
===Reputation===
Cornell ranked 13th in the ] ] "National Universities" ranking{{ref|reputation.usnews}}, and 12th globally in an academic ranking of world universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2005{{ref|reputation.worldrank}}.


In the Middle East, Cornell's efforts are centered on biology and medicine. The ] trains new doctors to improve health services in the region.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/aboutUs/purposeMission.html |title=Purpose and Mission |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=16 September 2010}}</ref> The university is also involved in developing the Bridging the Rift Center, a "Library of Life", a database of all living systems, based on the Israel-] forder, in collaboration with those two countries and ].<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb04/BTR.CUresearch.deb.html |title=Cornell and Stanford to work with Israel and Jordan on Bridging the Rift research center to include world's first databank for all living systems |publisher=Cornell News Service |access-date=1 January 2006}}</ref>
In its 2005 ranking of engineering programs at universities in the United States, U.S. News and World Report has placed Cornell first in engineering science and engineering physics. That same magazine rated the medical school's departments of psychiatry and orthopedic surgery as second best in the country, while rheumatology was rated third.

The university has agreements with several institutions around the world for student and faculty exchange programs, including ], the ], Japan's National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences,<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct05/Ishige.kr.html |title=Japanese officials sign agreement |publisher=Cornell News Service |access-date=23 May 2006}}</ref> the ],<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/05/2.10.05/Henry_Philippines.html |title=Susan Henry continues Asia tour; signs agreement with Los Baños |publisher=Cornell News Service |access-date=19 October 2006}}</ref> and the ].<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec05/India.MOU.ssl.html |title=Cornell and India sign new agreement for agricultural development |publisher=Cornell News Service |access-date=1 January 2006}}</ref>

==== Joint degree programs ====
{{Further|Global Alliance in Management Education}}
Cornell offers several joint degree programs with international universities. The university is the only U.S. member school of the ], and its Master's in International Management program offers the Global Alliance's Master's in International Management (CEMS MIM) as a double degree option, which enables students to study at one of 34 Global Alliance partner universities. Cornell has partnered with ] in Ontario to offer a joint Executive MBA program,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/academic/boardroom/ |title=Johnson School – Boardroom Executive MBA |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=12 August 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821231619/http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/academic/boardroom/ |archive-date=21 August 2006}}</ref> which affords its graduates ] from both universities. Cornell also offers an international consulting course in association with the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://courses.cornell.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=12&coid=97483 |title=NBA5760-International Consulting Practicum – Acalog ACMS™ |website=courses.cornell.edu}}</ref>

===Rankings===
{{Infobox US university ranking
| USNWR_NU = 11 <small>(tie)</small>
| THE_WSJ = 27
| Forbes = 10
| Wamo_NU = 8
| QS_W = 16
| THES_W = 20
| USNWR_W = 19 <small>(tie)</small>
| ARWU_W = 12 <small>(tie)</small>
}}
], the university's on-campus outdoor stadium, in 2008]]
Cornell University has been routinely ranked among the top academic institutions in the nation and world by independent academic ranking assessments. In 2024, Cornell was ranked 10th-best in the U.S. and 12th-best in the world by '']'' and 20th-best in the world by '']''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2016 |title=QS World University Rankings® 2016/17 |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited |access-date=7 September 2016 |date=25 August 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2017/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank_label/sort_order/asc/cols/rank_only |title=World University Rankings 2016–2017 |magazine=Times Higher Education |access-date=23 September 2016 }}</ref> The university has garnered praise for its contributions to research, community service, social mobility, and sustainability, evidenced by its placement in '']'' and ]'s rankings.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023-college-guide/national-1/ |title=2023 National Universities Rankings |magazine=Washington Monthly |access-date=18 September 2023 }}</ref>

In its annual edition of "America's Best Architecture & Design Schools," the journal ''Design Intelligence'' ranked Cornell's ] program best in the nation for most of the 21st century, including from 2000 to 2002, 2005 to 2007, 2009 to 2013, and 2015 to 2016. In its 2011 survey, the program ranked first and the ] program ranked sixth-best in the nation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aap.cornell.edu/news/newsitem.cfm?customel_datapageid_2892=128950 |title=Cornell University Architecture Program No. 1 |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=28 January 2009 }}</ref> In 2017, ''Design Intelligence'' ranked Cornell's Master of Landscape Architecture program fourth-best in the nation and its Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture program fifth-best nationally.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dirt.asla.org/2010/12/06/designintelligence-2011-landscape-architecture-program-rankings/ |title=DesignIntelligence 2011 Landscape Architecture Program Rankings |publisher=ASLA |access-date=21 November 2011 |archive-date=8 December 2010 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20101208182740/http://dirt.asla.org/2010/12/06/designintelligence-2011-landscape-architecture-program-rankings/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://worldlandscapearchitect.com/category/resources/education/ |title=Penn State and Kansas State rise up the Best American Landscape Architecture Schools lists |publisher=World Landscape Architecture |access-date=21 November 2011 }}</ref>

Among business schools in the U.S., '']'' ranked Cornell's ] the ninth-best business school in the nation in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/cornell-university/samuel-curtis-johnson-graduate-school-of-management/ |website=Forbes |access-date=20 February 2016 }}</ref> In 2020, '']'' ranked the School of Management eighth-best for salary potential, and ''Poets and Quants'' ranked it the 13th-best business school in the nation,<ref>{{cite web |title=Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management – Poets and Quants |url=http://poetsandquants.com/school-profile/samuel-curtis-johnson-graduate-school-of-management-at-cornell-university/ |website=Poets and Quants |access-date=24 May 2020 |language=en-US }}</ref> fourth-best in the nation for investment banking,<ref>{{cite web |title=Best MBAs For I-Banking Jobs – Page 2 of 2 |url=http://poetsandquants.com/2016/02/02/best-mba-programs-for-jobs-in-investment-banking/2/ |website=Poets and Quants |access-date=21 February 2016 |first=Jeff |last=Schmitt |date=2 February 2016 }}</ref> and sixth-best globally for salary.<ref>{{cite web |title=What Graduating MBAs Made In 2015 – Page 3 of 3 |url=http://poetsandquants.com/2016/01/20/what-graduating-mbas-made-in-2015/3/ |website=Poets and Quants |access-date=21 February 2016 |first=John A. |last=Byrne |date=20 January 2016 }}</ref> The Johnson School of Management was ranked 11th-best nationally by '']'' in 2019,<ref>{{cite news |title=Cornell (Johnson) – Best Business Schools 2019–20 |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/cornell-johnson |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |access-date=13 April 2020 }}</ref> and 11th-best nationally and 14th-best globally by '']''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cornell University – Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management MBA Ranking |url=https://www.economist.com/whichmba/cornell-university-samuel-curtis-johnson-graduate-school-management/2019 |newspaper=The Economist |access-date=13 April 2020 }}</ref> In 2013, the Johnson school was ranked second-best for sustainability by ''Bloomberg Businessweek''.<ref>{{cite news |title=MBA Rankings: Top Schools for Sustainability |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-01-22/mba-rankings-top-schools-for-sustainability |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |date=22 January 2013 |access-date=20 February 2016 }}</ref>

Cornell's ] program is ranked among the best in the world by '']'' magazine's ] survey, which ranked Cornell's undergraduate program 12th-best in the world and its doctorate program 11th-best in the world in 2012.<ref name="ivorytower2012">{{cite news |last=Avey |title=Ivory Tower |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/ivory_tower |access-date=6 February 2012 |newspaper=Foreign Policy |date=Jan–Feb 2012 |display-authors=etal }}</ref><ref name="tripsurvey">{{cite web |title=TRIP Around the World: Teaching, Research, and Policy Views of International Relations Faculty in 20 Countries |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/ivory_tower |work=Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations |publisher=College of William & Mary |access-date=6 February 2012 }}</ref> In 2015, Cornell was ranked third-best among all New York colleges and universities for professor salaries.<ref>{{cite web |first=Brian |last=Tumulty |url=http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2015/04/13/new-york-professor-pay/25683261/ |title=Half of N.Y. colleges pay profs less than $100K |work=Ithaca Journal |date=13 April 2015 |access-date=2 April 2016 }}</ref>

===Library===
{{Main|Cornell University Library}}
]
], one of 12 national depositories for the print records of briefs filed with the ]]]
As of 2020, ], with over 10 million holdings, is the ] ] in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000262.pdf |title=Top Twenty University Research Libraries Ranked By Number of Volumes Held |publisher=Association of Research Libraries |access-date=9 July 2006 }}</ref> As of 2005, the library is organized into 20 divisions, which hold 7.5&nbsp;million printed volumes in open stacks, 8.2&nbsp;million ]s and ]s, a total of 440,000 maps, motion pictures, DVDs, sound recordings, and computer files in its collections, and extensive digital resources and the University Archives.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.cornell.edu/about/Annual-Report_2005.pdf |title=Cornell University Library: Annual Report 2005 |publisher=Cornell University Library |access-date=5 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621031712/http://www.library.cornell.edu/about/Annual-Report_2005.pdf |archive-date=21 June 2006 }}</ref> It was the first among all U.S. colleges and universities to allow ] to borrow books from its libraries.<ref name=factbook/> In 2006, ] ranked it the 11th-best college library.<ref name="princeton 2006">{{cite web |url=http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/rankings.asp?listing=1023589&ltid=1&intbucketid= |title=The Best 361 Colleges Rankings |work=The Princeton Review |access-date=23 May 2006 }}</ref> Three years later, in 2009, it climbed to sixth-best.<ref name="princeton 2009">{{cite web |url=http://www.princetonreview.com/schoollist.aspx?type=r&id=687&RDN=1= |title=The Best 361 Colleges Rankings |work=The Princeton Review |access-date=25 March 2010 }}</ref> The library plays an active role in furthering online archiving of scientific and historical documents. ], an ] archive created at ] by ], is operated and primarily funded by Cornell as part of the library's services. The archive has changed the way many ]s and mathematicians communicate, making the e-print a viable and popular means of announcing new research.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.library.cornell.edu/news/arxiv |title=Cornell University Library Engages More Institutions in Supporting arXiv |date=21 January 2010 |publisher=Cornell University Library |access-date=16 September 2010 }}</ref>

===Cornell University Press===
{{Main|Cornell University Press}}
], established in 1869 but inactive from 1884 to 1930, was the first university publishing enterprise in the United States.<ref name="Bishop1962">{{cite book |last=Bishop |first=Morris |title=A history of Cornell |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcornell00bish_0 |url-access=registration |access-date=14 December 2010 |year=1962 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-0036-0 |page= }}</ref><ref name=press>{{cite web |url=http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup8_presshistory.html |title=The History of the Cornell University Press |publisher=Cornell University Press |access-date=1 January 2006 }}</ref> As of 2024, it is one of the country's largest ]es,<ref name=factbook/> publishing approximately 150 nonfiction titles annually in various disciplines, including anthropology, Asian studies, biological sciences, classics, history, industrial relations, literary criticism and theory, natural history, politics and international relations, veterinary science, and women's studies.<ref name=press/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup8_authors.html |title=Cornell University Press: Information for Authors |publisher=Cornell University Press |access-date=6 June 2006 }}</ref>

===Academic publications===
{{Further|Administrative Science Quarterly|Cornell International Affairs Review|Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy|Cornell Law Review|Cornell Policy Review|Industrial and Labor Relations Review|Journal of Empirical Legal Studies|Physical Review}}
Cornell's academic units and student groups publish multiple scholarly journals, including at least five faculty-led and seven student-led academic publications. Faculty-led publications include the Johnson School's '']'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/publications/asq/ |title=Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) |access-date=15 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823112148/http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/publications/asq/ |archive-date=23 August 2010 }}</ref> the ILR School's '']'', the Arts and Sciences Philosophy Department's '']'', the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning's ''Journal of Architecture'', and the Law School's '']''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1740-1453&site=1/ |title=Journal of Empirical Legal Studies |publisher=Wiley |access-date=14 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517005338/http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1740-1453&site=1%2F |archive-date=17 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Student-led scholarly publications include '']'', the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs' '']'', the '']'', the '']'', and '']''. '']'', recognized internationally as one of the best and well known journals of physics, was founded at Cornell in 1893 before later being managed by the ].

==Research==
], one of the five original centers of the ]'s Supercomputer Centers Program]]
], located adjacent to the Ithaca campus, used for ] and for recreation by Cornellians]]
] Lab determine the age of archaeological artifacts found at ].]]
Cornell University is a prominent research institution, ] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity."<ref>{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=190415 |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |access-date=18 July 2020 |archive-date=18 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318092017/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=190415 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The ] ranked Cornell 14th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2021 with $1.18 billion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Universities Report Largest Growth in Federally Funded R&D Expenditures since FY 2011 {{!}} NSF - National Science Foundation |url=https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23303 |access-date=28 December 2023 |website=ncses.nsf.gov }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Zalaznick |first=Matt |date=6 January 2023 |title=Billion-dollar business: These are higher ed's top 30 R&D performers |url=https://universitybusiness.com/r-d-research-and-development-billion-dollar-top-30-college-university-higher-ed-spenders/ |access-date=28 December 2023 |website=University Business |language=en-US }}</ref> The ] and the ] are the primary federal investors, accounting for 49.6% and 24.4% of all federal investments, respectively.<ref name=agencies>{{cite web |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=report&fice=8779&id=h3 |title=Federally funded R&D expenditures, by federal agency: 2017–08 |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=19 April 2019 }}</ref> Cornell is ranked fourth in the world for producing graduates who pursue PhDs in engineering or natural sciences at American institutions and fifth for graduates pursuing PhDs in any field.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.usnews.com/blogs/paper-trail/2008/07/14/chinese-schools-are-top-feeders-for-us-doctorates.html |title=Chinese Schools Are Top Feeders for U.S. Doctorates |format=URL |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=24 July 2008 }}</ref>

===Science, technology, and engineering research===
{{Further|Automotive Crash Injury Research Center|Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing|Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education}}
Cornell has a rich history of scientific, technological, and engineering research accomplishments. The university has made significant contributions to the fields of nuclear physics, high-energy physics, ], ], and ], among others. Cornell consistently ranks among the top U.S. universities for patent acquisition and start-up company formation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cornell.edu/about/facts/distinction.cfm |title=Facts about Cornell – Marks of Distinction |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=1 May 2006 }}</ref> In the 2004–05 academic year, the university filed 203 U.S. patent applications, completed 77 commercial license agreements, and distributed ] of more than $4.1 million to Cornell units and inventors.<ref name=factbook/> In 2009 Cornell spent $671&nbsp;million on science and engineering research and development, the 16th highest in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10329/ |title=Universities Report $55 Billion in Science and Engineering R&D Spending for FY 2009; Redesigned Survey to Launch in 2010 |date=September 2010 |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=24 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007073615/https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10329/ |archive-date=7 October 2010 }}</ref>

Cornell has been involved in ] since 1962<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/rover/timeline.html |title=Cornell's role in missions to Mars: 1962–2003 |publisher=Cornell News Service |access-date=10 January 2006 }}</ref> and played a vital role in the ] in the 21st century.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Father of Spirit and Opportunity |magazine=] |department=Science and technology at ''Scientific American'' |url=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=000B5749-67A2-1150-A5AC83414B7F0000&pageNumber=2&catID=2 |url-status=dead |access-date=10 January 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010050655/http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=000B5749-67A2-1150-A5AC83414B7F0000&pageNumber=2&catID=2 |archive-date=10 October 2007 }}</ref> The university's researchers discovered the ]<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Elliot, J.L. |author2=Dunham, D. |author3=Mink, D. |year=1977 |title=The Rings of Uranus |journal=Nature |volume=267 |issue=5609 |pages=328–330 |doi=10.1038/267328a0 |bibcode=1977Natur.267..328E |s2cid=4194104 }}</ref> and operated the ] in Puerto Rico until 2011. This observatory housed the world's largest single-dish radio telescope at the time.<ref>{{cite web |title=Home Page |website=] |publisher=National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center |url=http://www.naic.edu/ |access-date=26 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508105758/http://www.naic.edu/ |archive-date=8 May 2006 }}</ref>

The ], founded in 1952, was a pioneering effort in ]ing and significantly improved vehicle safety standards.<ref name=cars>{{cite web |url=http://www.carsafety.com/history.htm |title=Calspan Company History and Timeline |publisher=Calspan Corp |access-date=2 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060321051040/http://www.carsafety.com/history.htm |archive-date=21 March 2006 }}</ref> It was the first to use corpses instead of dummies for testing, leading to crucial findings about the effectiveness of seat belts, energy-absorbing steering wheels, padded dashboards, and improved door locks.<ref name=cars/>

Cornell has long been at the forefront of advancements in ]. In the 1980s, the university deployed the first ]-400VF and coupled two IBM 3090-600E systems to investigate coarse-grained ]. As part of the National Science Foundation's initiative to establish new supercomputer centers, the ] was founded. Cornell has continued to innovate in this area, most recently deploying Red Cloud, a cloud computing service designed specifically for research. The Red Cloud service is now part of the NSF's ] (XSEDE) supercomputing program.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cac.cornell.edu/about/history.aspx |title=Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing History and Awards |date=April 2012 |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 April 2012 }}</ref>

In the realm of ], Cornell scientists have been researching fundamental particles for over 75 years. The university has played an integral role in the foundations of nuclear physics, with faculty members ] and ] participating in the ]. In the 1930s, Cornell built the second ] in the United States and, in the 1950s, became the first to study synchrotron radiation. The ], located beneath Alumni Field, was once the world's highest-luminosity electron-positron collider.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/42/1/11 |title=Cornell's laboratory is at the crossroads |work=CERN Courier |access-date=23 May 2006 |archive-date=13 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513005819/http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/42/1/11 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lns.cornell.edu/accelphys/cesr.shtml |title=Accelerator Physics: Cornell Electron Storage Ring |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=4 July 2006 }}</ref> Cornell's accelerator and high-energy physics groups are involved in the design of the proposed ], which will complement the ] and shed light on questions related to ] and the existence of extra dimensions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.physics.cornell.edu/research/accelerator-physics/ |title=Accelerator Physics |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=17 September 2010 }}</ref>

===Philosophical research===
The Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University was founded in 1891 with philanthropic support from Henry W. Sage, a prominent figure in the lumber industry. In 1891, Sage endowed the establishment of the Sage School.<ref name="philosophy.cornell.edu">{{Cite web |url=https://philosophy.cornell.edu/history |title=History of the Sage School &#124; Sage School of Philosophy |website=philosophy.cornell.edu }}</ref> The school's namesake, Susan Linn Sage, died in 1885 in a carriage accident on Slaterville Road. Henry W. Sage, who was President of Cornell's Board of Trustees since 1875, sought to honor his late wife's memory through the establishment of the Sage School. In addition to the school's founding, Sage bestowed the title of Susan Linn Sage Professor of Christian Ethics and Mental Philosophy upon then Cornell president Jacob Gould Schurman.<ref name="philosophy.cornell.edu"/>

A cornerstone of the Sage School's early endeavors was the founding of '']'' in 1891, which was the first genuine philosophical review in the United States and has since been continuously published by the Sage School since its inception.

The Sage School of Philosophy's faculty has included several prominent philosophy scholars:
* ], a leading figure in analytic philosophy, made significant contributions during his tenure at Cornell, where he remained from 1946 to 1977.
* ], as the Susan Linn Sage Professor, challenged prevailing positivist and scientific views with his book, ''The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science'', published in 1924.
* ], known for his engagement with ]'s later thought, left a lasting impact on philosophy of mind, free will, determinism, and philosophy of religion during his time at the Sage School from 1947 to 1978.
* ], widely regarded as one of the greatest American political philosophers, spent a year of his graduate studies at the Sage School prior to joining the department as faculty, where he served from 1953 to the early 1960s.
* ], known for his seminal work ''A History of Political Theory'', published in 1937, provided a comprehensive account of political theory from ancient times to the rise of Nazism and fascism.
* ], a distinguished scholar, joined Cornell in 1948 as the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy. His work synthesized ancient philosophy and analytic philosophy, marking a decisive change to the study of Greek philosophy in the English-speaking world.

In a 2024 ranking published by the '']'', Sage School is ranked among the best programs at 19, and top five in the world in the fields of ],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/theory-of-value/ |title=Theory of Value 2021 – The Philosophical Gourmet Report }}</ref> that is their focus on ], ], ], ], ] and ]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/history-of-philosophy/ |title=History of Philosophy 2021 – The Philosophical Gourmet Report }}</ref> ranging from ] to ]. As of 2024, Sage School is home to several notable philosophers, including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and others.


==Student life== ==Student life==
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! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{cite web |title=College Scorecard: Cornell University |url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?190415-Cornell-University |publisher=] |access-date=8 May 2022 }}</ref>
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===Activities=== ===Activities===
{{Further|Cornell Catholic Community|Cornell University Glee Club|Quill and Dagger|Sphinx Head|Telluride House|The Chordials}}
] is one of numerous campus publications]]
], an on-campus ]]]
Cornell has more than 800 registered student organizations, running the gamut from ]ing to full-armor ], from varsity and club ]s and ] groups to ], from political clubs and publications to ] and ] clubs. Many groups are subsidized financially by the Student Assembly Finance Commission, a student-run organization that gives nearly $1,000,000 a year to clubs and organizations. Organized in ], the oldest student organization is the ].
] on ]]]
As of the 2016–2017 academic year, Cornell had over 1,000 registered student organizations. These clubs and organizations run the gamut from kayaking to full-armor jousting, from varsity and club sports and a cappella groups to improvisational theatre, from political clubs and publications to chess and video game clubs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sao.cornell.edu/SO/search2006.php?squery=&qsubmit=yes&submit=Click+Here+to+Start+Quick+Search |title=SAO |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=6 August 2007 }}</ref> The Cornell International Affairs Society sends over 100 Cornellians to collegiate Model United Nations conferences across North America and hosts the Cornell Model United Nations Conference each spring for over 500 high school students. The Cornell University Mock Trial Association regularly sends teams to the national championship and is ranked fifth in the nation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collegemocktrial.org/ |title=Cornell Mock Trial |publisher=American Mock Trial Association |access-date=31 October 2018 }}</ref> The Cornell International Affairs Society's traveling Model United Nations team was ranked 16th in the nation as of 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thecias.org/ |title=Cornell International Affairs Society |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=26 July 2010 }}</ref> Cornell United Religious Work is a collaboration among many diverse religious traditions, helping to provide spiritual resources throughout a student's time at college. The ] is the largest Catholic student organization on campus. Student organizations also include a myriad of groups including a symphony orchestra,<ref>{{cite web |last=Dieckmann |first=Jane |url=http://www.ithaca.com/arts_and_entertainment/ensemble-x-is-back-with-three-concerts/article_20e4a1d4-39ba-11e4-8184-f3c6e8e91b0f.html |title=Ensemble X is Back with Three Concerts – Ithaca Times : Entertainment |publisher=Ithaca.com |date=12 September 2014 |access-date=2 April 2016 }}</ref> concert bands,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cuwinds.com/ |title=Wind Ensembles of Cornell University's Department of Music |publisher=CU Winds |access-date=2 April 2016 }}</ref> formal and informal choral groups,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://music.cornell.edu/performing/choral-ensembles/ |title=Cornell University Department of Music » Choral Ensembles |publisher=Music.cornell.edu |access-date=2 April 2016 }}</ref> including the ], the ]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://chordials.com/ |title=Co-ed A Cappella |website=The Chordials |language=en-US |access-date=18 December 2018 }}</ref> and other musical groups that play everything from classical, jazz, to ethnic styles in addition to the ], which performs regularly at football games and other campus events.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mb.bigredbands.org/history.html |title=Cornell University Big Red Marching Band – History |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=20 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830095207/http://mb.bigredbands.org/history.html<!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=30 August 2006 }}</ref>


Organized in 1868, the oldest Cornell student organization is the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gleeclub.com/ |title=Cornell University Glee Club |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=16 September 2010 }}</ref> Cornell also has an active outdoor community, including Cornell Outdoor Education and Outdoor Odyssey, a student-run group that runs pre-orientation trips for first-year and transfer students. A Cornell student organization, The Cornell Astronomical Society, runs public observing nights every Friday evening at the ]. The university is home to the ], an intellectual residential society. The university is also home to three ], ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/newscornell?a=d&srpos=1&cl=search&d=CDS18910113.2.3.4&e=--------20--1---The+Sphinx+Head;+A+Senior+Society+Recently+Formed-all |title="The Sphinx Head: A Senior Society Recently Formed" The Cornell Daily Sun, January 13th, 1891, p.3 |publisher=Cdsun.library.cornell.edu |access-date=22 July 2012 }}</ref> Der Hexenkreis, and ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Dear Uncle Ezra |url=http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1027396800#rquestion5 |date=23 July 2002 |access-date=14 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619125044/http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1027396800#rquestion5 |archive-date=19 June 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Dear Uncle Ezra |url=http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1140066000#question10 |date=16 February 2006 |access-date=14 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622172925/http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1140066000#question10 |archive-date=22 June 2010 }}</ref> that have maintained a campus presence for over 120 years.
] is the oldest continuously independent college daily in the United States, having published since September ], and the first collegiate member of the ]. Other campus publications include ], ] and ].


Cornell's clubs are primarily subsidized financially by the Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, two student-run organizations with a collective budget of $3.0&nbsp;million per year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://assembly.cornell.edu/SA/ActivityFee |title=Cornell Assemblies SA Activity Fee |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=16 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208023927/http://assembly.cornell.edu/SA/ActivityFee |archive-date=8 February 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://assembly.cornell.edu/GPSA/ActivityFee |title=Cornell Assemblies GPSA Activity Fee |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=9 December 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215013937/http://assembly.cornell.edu/GPSA/ActivityFee |archive-date=15 February 2011 }}</ref> The assemblies also finance other student life programs including a concert commission and an on-campus theater.
WVBR is an independent radio station owned and operated by Cornell students. During the 1970s, it was noted for its progressive rock radio format. It is also known for its coverage of both Cornell and national sports.


===Greek life, professional, and honor societies===
Cornell also hosts one of the largest ] systems in North America, with over 60 chapters involving 30% of ] students. ], the first intercollegiate ] fraternity established for ]s was founded at Cornell in ].
{{main|List of Cornell University fraternities and sororities}}
Cornell hosts a large<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.syracuse.com/su-news/index.ssf/2018/05/cornell_university_cracks_down_fraternities_and_sororities_following_another_haz.html |title=Cornell University cracks down on fraternities and sororities following hazing incident |last=syracuse.com |website=syracuse.com |language=en-US |access-date=18 December 2018 |date=4 May 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cornellsun.com/2018/11/28/employee-assembly-committee-finds-chapter-review-board-process-falls-short/ |title=University Committee Says Cornell Greek Life's Chapter Review Board Process 'Falls Short' |date=29 November 2018 |website=The Cornell Daily Sun |language=en-US |access-date=18 December 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cornellsun.com/2018/05/04/online-scorecard-no-hard-alcohol-among-greek-life-reforms-introduced-by-pollack/ |title=Online Scorecard, No Hard Alcohol Among Greek Life Reforms Introduced by Pollack |date=4 May 2018 |website=The Cornell Daily Sun |language=en-US |access-date=18 December 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cornellsun.com/2018/03/12/guest-room-gone-with-greek-life-for-good/ |title=GUEST ROOM {{!}} Gone With Greek Life, for Good |last=Department |first=Opinion |date=13 March 2018 |website=The Cornell Daily Sun |language=en-US |access-date=18 December 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cornellsun.com/2017/10/06/hagopian-greek-life-should-not-exist-part-ii/ |title=HAGOPIAN {{!}} Greek Life Should Not Exist: Part II |last=Hagopian |first=Ara |date=6 October 2017 |website=The Cornell Daily Sun |language=en-US |access-date=18 December 2018 }}</ref> ], with 70 chapters involving 33% of male and 24% of female undergraduates.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scorpiontke.org/rush/greek |title=Go Greek! |publisher=Scorpion TKE |access-date=9 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504194959/http://www.scorpiontke.org/rush/greek |archive-date=4 May 2006 }}</ref><ref name=Greek>{{cite web |url=http://www.dos.cornell.edu/FSA/PDFs/OFSA_AR05_smaller.pdf |title=Fraternity & Sorority Advisory Council Annual Report 2004–2005 |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524120953/http://www.dos.cornell.edu/FSA/PDFs/OFSA_AR05_smaller.pdf |archive-date=24 May 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cornellfrat.com/ |title=Cornell Fraternities! |access-date=1 October 2011 |archive-date=14 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014181451/http://cornellfrat.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Cornell's Greek Life has an extensive history on the campus with the first fraternity, ], being chartered by the end of the university's first year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cornellsun.com/2019/11/21/solar-flashback-its-all-greek-to-me-a-history-of-greek-life-policies-at-cornell/ |title=Solar Flashback: It's All Greek to Me — A History of Greek Life Policies at Cornell |date=21 November 2019 }}</ref> ], the first intercollegiate ] organization established for African Americans, was founded at Cornell in 1906.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/newscornell?a=d&d=CDS19231107.2.6.5&e=--------20--1----%22Alpha+Phi+Alpha%22-all |title=Negro Fraternities Have Had Rapid Growth |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |volume=44 |number=37 |page=6 |date=7 November 1923 |access-date=19 September 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Wesley |first=Charles H. |author-link=Charles H. Wesley |title=The History of Alpha Phi Alpha, A Development in College Life |edition=14th |publisher=Foundation |location=Chicago, IL |year=1981 |id=ASIN: B000ESQ14W }}</ref> ] fraternity, the first Greek-lettered organization established for ] in the United States, was also founded at Cornell on 1 January 1890. Alpha Zeta served the wealthy international Latin American students that came to the United States to study. This organization led a movement of fraternities that catered to international Latin American students that was active from 1890 to 1975.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fajardo |first=Oliver |year=2015 |title=A brief history of international Latin American student fraternities – a movement that lasted 86&nbsp;years (1889–1975) |journal=Journal of Hispanic Higher Education |volume=14 |pages=69–81 |s2cid=146728641 |doi=10.1177/1538192714548928 }}</ref> On 19&nbsp;February 1982, La Unidad Latina, ] fraternity was established;<ref name=LUL-1982-story>{{cite web |title=The story of LUL |date=19 February 1982 |publisher=La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity |website=Launidadlatina.org |url=http://www.launidadlatina.org/about-lul/history/story/#.WH9NYLYrJN0/ |access-date=18 January 2017 }}</ref> it would eventually become the only Latino based fraternity in the nation with chapters at every Ivy League institution.<ref name=LUL-1982-facts>{{cite web |title=Lambda Facts |date=16 October 2012 |website=Launidadlatina.org |publisher=La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity |url=http://www.launidadlatina.org/about-lul/lambda-facts/ |access-date=13 March 2018 }}</ref> Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/] sorority was established on 16&nbsp;April 1988, making the organization the first Latina-Based, and not Latina-exclusive, sorority founded at an ivy-league institution.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Official Website |publisher=Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad / Lambda Pi Chi Sorority |website=Lambdapichi.org |url=http://www.lambdapichi.org/ |date=16 April 1988 |access-date=3 April 2017 }}</ref>

Cornell's connection to national Greek life is strong and longstanding. Many chapters are among the oldest of their respective national organizations, as evidenced by the proliferation of ''Alpha-series'' chapters. The chapter house of ] constructed in 1877 is believed to be the first house built in America solely for fraternity use, and the chapter's current home was designed by ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alphadeltaphi.org/AboutUs/Chapters/tabid/59/agentType/View/ChapterID/12/Default.aspx |title=The Cornell Chapter |publisher=Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity |website=Alphadeltaphi.org |date=11 February 1929 |access-date=24 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826152136/http://www.alphadeltaphi.org/AboutUs/Chapters/tabid/59/agentType/View/ChapterID/12/Default.aspx |archive-date=26 August 2016 }}</ref> Philanthropy opportunities are used to encourage community relations, for example, during the 2004–05 academic year, the Greek system contributed 21,668 ] and advocacy hours and raised $176,547 in charitable contributions from its philanthropic efforts.<ref name=Greek/> Generally, discipline is managed internally by the inter-Greek governing boards. As with all student, faculty or staff misconduct, more serious cases are reviewed by the Judicial Administrator, who administers Cornell's ].<ref name="Greek"/>

===Press and radio===<!-- Any publications discussed here should pertain chiefly to Student life -- Scholarly publications belong in the Press and scholarly publications section above -->
{{Further|Cornell Chronicle|The Cornell Daily Sun|The Cornell Lunatic|The Cornell Review|WVBR-FM}}
The Cornell student body produces several works by way of print and radio. Student-run newspapers include '']'', an independent daily, and '']'', a conservative newspaper published fortnightly.

Other press outlets include '']'', a campus humor magazine, the '']'', the university's newspaper of record, and ''Kitsch Magazine'', a ] co-published with ]. ''The Cornellian'' is an independent student organization that organizes, arranges, produces, edits, and publishes the yearbook of the same name; it is composed of artistic photos of the campus, student life, and athletics, and the standard senior portraits. It carries the Silver Crown Award for Journalism and a Benjamin Franklin Award for Print Design, the only Ivy League yearbook with such a distinction.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cornell.edu/search/index.cfm?tab=facts&q=&id=225 |title=Compendium of facts about Cornell |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609113851/http://www.cornell.edu/search/index.cfm?tab=facts&q=&id=225 |archive-date=9 June 2007 }}</ref> Cornellians are represented over the radio waves on ], an independent commercial ] radio station owned and operated by Cornell students. Other student groups also operate internet streaming audio sites.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wvbr.com/info |title=About Us & Station History |publisher=] |access-date=19 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100517062657/http://wvbr.com/info |archive-date=17 May 2010 }}</ref>


===Housing=== ===Housing===
{{Further|Cornell North Campus|Cornell West Campus}}
] is a women-only dormitory on North Campus]]
] on ]]]
University housing is broadly divided into three sections: West Campus, Collegetown and North Campus. As a result of President ]'s 1997 Residential Initiative,{{ref|housing.north_campus}} West Campus houses mostly transfer and returning students, whereas North Campus is almost entirely populated by freshmen.
]s that span Cornell's ]s and ease commuting from housing to the various on-campus academic buildings]]
The only options for living on North Campus for upperclassmen are the program houses: ], Just About Music (JAM), the Ecology House, Holland International Living Center (HILC), the Multicultural Living Learning Unit (MLLU), the Latino Living Center (LLC), Akwe:kon, and Ujaama.
University housing is broadly divided into three sections: ], ], and Collegetown. Beginning in 1971, Cornell began experiments with co-ed dormitories and continued the tradition of residential advisors (RAs) within the campus system. Beginning in the 1990s, new students were largely assigned to the historic Baker and Boldt Hall complexes on West Campus. Since a 1997 residential initiative, West Campus houses transfer and returning students, and North Campus is mostly populated by freshmen, sophomores, and sorority and fraternity houses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ri.campuslife.cornell.edu/Ri_article_page_view.asp?action=article&ID=2318 |title=The Residential Initiative: North Campus |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=1 January 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051111114439/http://ri.campuslife.cornell.edu/Ri_article_page_view.asp?action=article&ID=2318 |archive-date=11 November 2005 }}</ref> Prior to 2022, North Campus residents were overwhelmingly freshman, but the completion of the North Campus Residential Expansion provided housing for 800 sophomores in Toni Morrison Hall and Ganędagǫ Hall.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Parsi |first1=Novid |title=Cornell University builds massive student housing complex to accommodate planned enrollment growth |url=https://www.bdcnetwork.com/cornell-university-builds-massive-student-housing-complex-accommodate-planned-enrollment-growth |website=BDC Network |date=7 December 2022 |access-date=5 December 2023 }}</ref>


Options for living on North Campus for upperclassmen include program houses and co-op houses. Program houses include ], Just About Music, the ], ], the ], the ], ], and ]. The co-op houses on North are The Prospect of Whitby, Triphammer Cooperative, Wait Avenue Cooperative, Wari Cooperative, and Wait Terrace.<ref name="living.cornell.edu">{{Cite web |url=http://living.cornell.edu/live/wheretolive/co-ops/index.cfm |title=Cooperative Housing |website=living.cornell.edu |access-date=18 December 2018 }}</ref> On West Campus, there are three university-affiliated cooperatives, 660 Stewart Cooperative, Von Cramm Hall, Watermargin, and one independent cooperative, Cayuga Lodge. In an attempt to create a sense of community and an atmosphere of education outside the classroom and continue Andrew Dickson White's vision, a $250&nbsp;million reconstruction of West Campus created ] there for undergraduates.<ref name=houses>{{cite news |url=http://cornellsun.com/node/22275 |title=Housing initiative to finish two years early |newspaper=] |access-date=7 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929090834/http://cornellsun.com/node/22275 |archive-date=29 September 2007 }}</ref> The idea of building a house system can be attributed in part to the success of Risley Residential College, the oldest continually operating residential college at Cornell.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/newscornell?a=d&srpos=13&cl=search&d=CDS19700205.2.1.4&e=--------20--1----Seznec+Report-all |title=Risley may become house for create arts study |first=Barbara |last=Kantrowitz |date=5 February 1970 |access-date=12 December 2010 |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |volume=86 |number=75 |page=1 }}</ref> In 2018, Cornell announced its North Campus Residential Expansion project, which was completed in Fall 2022. The university added 2,000 beds on North Campus through five new dorms and a dining hall. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, Hu Shih Hall, and Barbara McClintock Hall are located on the east end of North Campus and are exclusively for freshmen. Sophomores have the option to live in Toni Morrison Hall or Ganędagǫ Hall, which are located on the west end of North Campus.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ncre.cornell.edu/what-north-campus-residential-expansion |title=What is the North Campus Residential Expansion? |website=North Campus Residential Expansion AN INITIATIVE OF STUDENT & CAMPUS LIFE |access-date=7 May 2019 }}</ref>
In an attempt to create a sense of community and an atmosphere of education outside the classroom, the university has undertaken the $250 million ] project on West Campus. In line with Andrew Dickson White's vision of the university, the West Campus Class Halls will be demolished and rebuilt as five residential colleges. The first House, the ], was opened to students in 2004, followed by the ] in 2005. The next house will be the ]. The names of the Houses come from notable Cornell professors. The idea of building a House system can be attributed in part to the success of ], the oldest continually-operating residential college at Cornell. Like Risley, the new houses will have their own dining halls, student governments, in-house lectures, House trips, and ]. The completion of the five-House "residential college" campus will occur in ].{{ref|housing.west_campus}}


Schuyler House, which was formerly a part of Sage Infirmary,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fs.cornell.edu/fs/facinfo/fs_facilInfo.cfm?facil_cd=2702 |title=Schuyler House |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=19 September 2010 }}</ref> has a dorm layout. Maplewood Apartments, Hasbrouck Apartments, and Thurston Court Apartments are apartment-style, some even allowing for family living. Off campus, many single-family houses in the East Hill neighborhoods adjacent to the university have been converted to apartments. Private developers have also built several multi-story apartment complexes in the Collegetown neighborhood. Nine percent of undergraduate students reside in fraternity and sorority houses, although first semester freshmen are not permitted to join them.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dos.cornell.edu/greek/info_for_students/index.cfm |title=DOS: For Students |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=17 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620071706/http://dos.cornell.edu/greek/info_for_students/index.cfm |archive-date=20 June 2010 }}</ref> ] has 67 chapters and over 54 Greek residences that house approximately 1,500 students. About 42% of Greek members live in their houses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dos.cornell.edu/cms/greek/alumni_friends/upload/alumni_volunteer_handbook07.pdf |title=Fraternity and Sorority Alumni Volunteer Handbook |date=1 July 2007 |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=17 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622165606/http://dos.cornell.edu/cms/greek/alumni_friends/upload/alumni_volunteer_handbook07.pdf |archive-date=22 June 2010 }}</ref> ]s or other independent living units exist, including ], the Center for Jewish Living, Phillips House (located on North Campus, 1975 all women; 2016, all men), and Center for World Community (international community, off campus, formed by Annabel Taylor Hall, 1972, mixed gender).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.campuslife.cornell.edu/campuslife/housing/cooperative-house.cfm |title=Cooperative Housing |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> The cooperative houses on North include The Prospect of Whitby, Triphammer Cooperative, Wait Avenue Cooperative, Wari Cooperative, and Wait Terrace.<ref name="living.cornell.edu"/> There also are cooperative housing options not owned by Cornell, including ] and Stewart Little.
A variety of off-campus housing options exist. Many homes in the East Hill neighborhoods adjacent to the university have been converted to apartments, and several high-rise apartment complexes have been constructed in the Collegetown neighborhood. A significant number of undergraduate students live in fraternity and sorority houses. Many "co-op" or other independent living units such as Watermargin, ], the Center for Jewish Living (formerly the Young Israel House), and the Wait Cooperative also exist.


{{As of|2023}}, Cornell's dining system was ranked second in the nation by ].<ref>{{cite web |title=School Rankings – Best Campus Food |url=http://www.princetonreview.com/schoollist.aspx?type=r&id=683 |access-date=30 March 2023 |website=] }}</ref> The university has 29&nbsp;on-campus dining locations, including 10 "All You Care to Eat" cafeterias.<ref name="CornellDiningWheretoEat">{{cite web |title=Cornell Dining – Where to Eat |url=https://living.cornell.edu/dine/wheretoeat/ |website=Cornell Dining |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=8 September 2018 }}</ref> North Campus is home to three of these dining halls: Morrison Dining by Morrison Hall, North Star Dining Room in the Appel Commons, and Risley Dining in Risley Hall.<ref name="CornellDiningWheretoEat"/> West Campus houses 6 dining halls, 5 of which accompany the West Campus residential houses: Cook House Dining Room, Becker House Dining Room, Rose House Dining Room, Jansen's Dining Room at Hans Bethe House, and Keeton House Dining Room.<ref name = "CornellDiningWheretoEat"/> Also located on West Campus is 104West!, a kosher/multicultural dining room.<ref name="CornellDiningWheretoEat"/> Central Campus has Okenshields, a dining hall in Willard Straight Hall.<ref name="CornellDiningWheretoEat"/>
The campus dining services have been rated as one of the top college dining services many times in recent years{{ref|housing.food}}. Cornell has a program called Cross Country Gourmet Guest Restaurant Series which periodically brings chefs, menus, and atmosphere from America’s most influential restaurants to Cornell’s dining rooms.

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===Athletics=== ===Athletics===
{{main|Cornell Big Red}} {{Main|Cornell Big Red}}
{{Further|Cornell Big Red baseball|Cornell Big Red football|Cornell Big Red men's basketball|Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey|Cornell Big Red men's lacrosse|Cornell Big Red men's soccer|Cornell Big Red men's squash|Cornell Big Red women's basketball|Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey|Cornell Big Red wrestling}}
Cornell has one of the most diverse varsity athletic programs in the country. It sponsors 36 varsity teams. ].]] An ] ] institution, Cornell is a member of the ] and also competes in ], the largest athletic conference in North America. Cornell's traditional ] rival is the ]; in ], the two institutions celebrated the 100th anniversary of their first game. More keenly followed in the present day are the men's ] contests with ], although the rivalry has been somewhat one-sided in recent years, with Cornell leading 22-5-2 since the 95-96 season, including ECAC Championship Game wins in 1996, 2003, and 2005.
] taking on ] at ] in October 2019]]
Cornell University's 35 varsity intercollegiate athletic teams are known as the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cornellbigred.com/ |title=Headlines |website=cornellbigred.com |access-date=27 September 2021 }}</ref> Cornell is an ] institution and competes as a member of the ] and the ] (ECAC), the largest athletic conference in North America.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ecac.org/about.asp |title=About ECAC |publisher=] |access-date=15 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060613055114/http://ecac.org/about.asp |archive-date=13 June 2006 }}</ref> Cornell's varsity athletic teams consistently challenge for NCAA Division I titles in a number of sports, including ], ], ], and rowing. As an ] member, Cornell is prohibited from offering ]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cornellsun.com/node/5763 |title=Now What? A Look at Athletics in the Offseason |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |access-date=21 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929090759/http://cornellsun.com/node/5763 |archive-date=29 September 2007 }}</ref>


Cornell's ] team had at least a share of the national championship four times before 1940<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Division I-A Football National Champions |publisher=NCAA |year=2006 |url=https://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html |access-date=5 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826121836/http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html |archive-date=26 August 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cornell out to snap Crimson's Ivy win streak |website=CSTV.com |year=2005 |url=http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/100305aaa.html |access-date=5 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070214142744/http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/100305aaa.html |archive-date=14 February 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and has won the Ivy League championship three times, last in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/fb9091.asp |title=1990 Ivy League Football Record |website=Ivy League Sports |access-date=15 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614164312/http://ivyleaguesports.com/documents/fb9091.asp |archive-date=14 June 2006 }}</ref>
In addition to the school's varsity athletics, a wide variety of club sports teams have been organized as student organizations under the auspices of the Dean of Students.


In ], the ] team appeared for the first time in the ]'s East Regional semifinals, known as the "Sweet 16." Cornell was the first Ivy League basketball team to make the semifinals since 1979.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/03/decisive-win-over-wisconsin-sends-big-red-sweet-16 |first1=Anne |last1=Ju |date=21 March 2010 |title=Decisive win over Wisconsin propels Big Red to sweet&nbsp;16 |periodical=Cornell Chronicle |publisher=Cornell University News Service |language=en |access-date=18 March 2018 }}</ref>
Cornell's intramural program includes 30 sports. In addition to such familiar sports such as ], ], or ], such unusual offerings as "inner tube ]" and formerly "broomstick ]" have been offered, as well as a sports trivia competition.


===Cornell Outdoor Education===
==Faculty==
Cornell runs one of the largest collegiate outdoor education programs in the country, serving over 20,000&nbsp;people every year. The program runs over 130 different courses including but not limited to: Backpacking and Camping, Mountain Biking, Bike Touring, Caving, Hiking, Rock Climbing, Wilderness First Aid, and tree climbing.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://coe.cornell.edu/spring-2016-classes |title=Spring 2016 Classes |publisher=Cornell Outdoor Education |access-date=2 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320084621/http://coe.cornell.edu/spring-2016-classes |archive-date=20 March 2016 }}</ref> COE also oversees one of the largest student-run pre-freshman summer programs, known as Outdoor Odyssey.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://odyssey.coe.cornell.edu/ |title=Outdoor Odyssey |website=odyssey.coe.cornell.edu |access-date=2 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417102028/https://odyssey.coe.cornell.edu/ |archive-date=17 April 2016 }}</ref> Most classes are often entirely taught by paid student instructors and courses count toward Cornell's physical education graduation requirement.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://coe.cornell.edu/about-coe |title=About COE |publisher=Cornell Outdoor Education |access-date=2 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428044922/http://coe.cornell.edu/about-coe |archive-date=28 April 2016 }}</ref>
{{seealso|List of Cornell University people#Faculty}}
Cornell University has over 1,550 full-time and part-time academic faculty members, and an additional 1,600 affiliated with its medical divisions. The 2004-05 Cornell faculty included three ], a ] winner, two ] winners, a ] winner, two ] recipients, a ] winner, four ] winners, two ] winners, four ] winners, four ] winners, 14 Alexander von Humboldt Award winners, two Eminent Ecologist Award recipients, a Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion recipient, 20 National Science Foundation CAREER grant holders, a recipient of the ] Award for Initiatives in Research, a winner of the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, two Packard Foundation grant holders, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar, two Beckman Foundation Young Investigator grant holders, and two NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research) early career award winners. In total, Cornell is affiliated to 32 ].{{ref|faculty.distinction}}


Cornell Outdoor Education includes the Lindseth Climbing Wall, which was renovated in 2016 and now includes 8,000 square feet of climbing surface up from 4,800 square feet previously.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cornell.edu/video/new-lindseth-climbing-center |date=18 October 2016 |title=The new Lindseth Climbing Center |website=CornellCast |language=en |access-date=18 December 2018 }}</ref>
Among ] are ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].


==Alumni== ===Cornelliana===
{{Main|Cornelliana}}
{{seealso|List of Cornell University people}}
{{Further|Dragon Day|Far Above Cayuga's Waters|Give My Regards to Davy|Slope Day|Touchdown (mascot)}}
] is an annual tradition celebrating a feat by freshman ] students to construct a colossal dragon that is paraded through the Ithaca campus.]]
] circumscribed by the university motto]]
Cornelliana is a term for Cornell's traditions, legends, and lore. Cornellian traditions include ], a celebration held on the last day of classes of the spring semester, and ], which includes the parading of a dragon built by architecture students. Dragon Day is one of the school's oldest traditions and has been celebrated annually since 1901, historically on or near St. Patrick's Day. The dragon is built by the first-year architecture students in the week preceding the start of Spring Break. Taunting messages are left for the engineering students during the week leading into Dragon Day, with pranks, a "nerd walk," and even "green streak" (in which the students paint themselves green) often targeting engineers and their classes. On Dragon Day, the dragon is paraded around central campus by the first-year students, starting behind Rand Hall and moving through Cornell until eventually returning towards the Arts Quad. During the parade, the upper-year architecture students walk behind the dragon in various costumes, typically constructed by themselves for the event. Throughout much of its history, the dragon was then set afire upon its arrival to the arts quad, but that has since been discontinued due to environmental regulations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/cu_facts/read_more.cfm?id=55 |title=Dragon Day |publisher=Cornell University Alumni |access-date=23 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909042704/http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/cu_facts/read_more.cfm?id=55 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=9 September 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=23 March 2009 |title=Beast Escapes the Fire in Annual Dragon Day Festivities |url=https://cornellsun.com/2009/03/23/beast-escapes-fire-annual-dragon-day-festivities/,%20https://cornellsun.com/2009/03/23/beast-escapes-fire-annual-dragon-day-festivities/ |access-date=29 December 2023 |website=The Cornell Daily Sun |first1=Sam |last1=Cross |language=en-US }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dragon Day |url=https://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/about/dragon-day |access-date=29 December 2023 |website=Cornell AAP |language=en }}</ref>


According to legend, if a virgin crosses the ] at midnight, the statues of ] and ] will walk off their pedestals, meet in the center of the Quad, and shake hands, congratulating themselves on the chastity of students. There is also another myth that if a couple crosses the suspension bridge on North Campus, and the young woman does not accept a kiss from her partner, the bridge will fall. If the kiss is accepted, the couple is assured a long future together.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fs.cornell.edu/tours/default.cfm?tour_id=41 |title=Fall Creek Gorge: Suspension Bridge Virtual Tour |publisher=Cornell University Facilities Services |access-date=18 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115093525/http://www.fs.cornell.edu/tours/default.cfm?tour_id=41 |archive-date=15 November 2012 }}</ref>
], Cornell University counted over 230,000 living alumni{{ref|alumni.living_graduates}}. The Office of Alumni Affairs and Development sponsors a wide variety of affinity programs, activities, and organizations, including annual Reunion Weekend and ] Weekend festivities in Ithaca, and the International Spirit of Zinck's Night sponsored by Cornell offices and organizations around the world. The various classes, regional clubs, and special interest associations are coordinated by the Cornell Alumni Federation.


The university is also host to various student pranks. On at least two different occasions, the university has awoken to find something odd atop the 173-foot (52.7&nbsp;m) tall McGraw clock tower, once a 60-pound (27&nbsp;kg) ] and another time a disco ball. Because there is no access to the spire atop the tower, how the items were put in place remains a mystery.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/pumpkin_tale.html |title=Pumpkin Tale |publisher=Cornell Chronicle Online |access-date=5 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060620034727/http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/pumpkin_tale.html |archive-date=20 June 2006 }}</ref> The colors of the lights on McGraw tower change to orange for Halloween and green for St. Patrick's Day.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1067490000 |title=Dear Uncle Ezra |date=30 October 2003 |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621021015/http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1067490000 |archive-date=21 June 2010 }}</ref> The clock tower also plays music.
Cornell ranked second in gifts and bequests from alumni and third in total support from all sources (alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations) among U.S. colleges and universities reporting voluntary gift support received in fiscal year 2003-4{{ref|alumni.gifts}}.


The school colors are carnelian (a shade of red) and white, a play on "Cornellian" and Andrew Dickson White. A bear is commonly used as the unofficial mascot, which dates back to the introduction of the mascot "]" in 1915, a live bear who was brought onto the field during football games.<ref name=mascot>{{Cite news |url=http://cornellsun.com/node/17613 |title=Wild Cornell Mascot Wreaks Havoc |work=The Cornell Daily Sun |date=30 April 2006 |access-date=21 September 2010 |first=Casey |last=Holmes |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112042726/http://cornellsun.com/node/17613 |archive-date=12 January 2012 }}</ref> The university's alma mater is "]," and its ] is "]." People associated with the university are called "Cornellians."
Among Cornell's most notable alumni are ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ].


==Cornelliana== ===Health===
{{Further|Cornell gorge suicides}}
], one of the school's oldest traditions, has been celebrated since ].]]
Cornell offers a variety of professional and peer counseling services to students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gannett.cornell.edu/services/counseling/index.cfm |title=Counseling and Support |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=18 September 2010 }}</ref> Formerly called Gannett Health Services until its name change in 2016, Cornell Health offers on-campus outpatient health services with emergency services and residential treatment provided by ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gannett.cornell.edu/services/medical/index.cfm |title=Medical Care |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=18 September 2010 }}</ref> For most of its history, Cornell provided residential medical care for sick students, including at the historic Sage Infirmary.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fs.cornell.edu/fs/facinfo/fs_facilinfo.cfm?facil_cd=2701 |title=Sage House |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=18 September 2010 }}</ref> Cornell offers specialized reproductive health and family planning services.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gannett.cornell.edu/topics/sexual/index.cfm |title=Gannett Sexual Health |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=26 November 2010 }}</ref> The university also has a student-run ] (EMS) agency. The squad provides emergency response to medical emergencies on the campus at Cornell and surrounding university-owned properties. Cornell EMS also provides stand-by service for university events and provides CPR, First Aid and other training seminars to the Cornell community.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cuems.cornell.edu/squad_info/ |title=About CUEMS |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=29 December 2013 }}</ref>
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Cornelliana is a term for Cornell's unique traditions, legends and lore. Cornellian traditions include ], a celebration held on the last day of classes, and ], which includes the burning of a dragon built by architecture students.


The university received attention for a ] that occurred during the 2009–10 school year, and after the incidents added temporary fences to the bridges which span area gorges.<ref name="TodayNets">{{Cite web |url=http://today.14850.com/stories/05171-cornell-fences |title=Means restriction nets in place, Cornell takes down bridge fences after three years |website=today.14850.com |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310140033/http://today.14850.com/stories/05171-cornell-fences |url-status=dead }}</ref> In May 2013, Cornell indicated that it planned to set up nets, which will extend out 15 feet, on five of the university's bridges.<ref name=Huffington2>{{cite news |title=Cornell Suicides: Nets To Cover Gorges Around School's Campus |newspaper=] |date=20 August 2012 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/cornell-suicides-nets-to-_n_1810130.html |access-date=24 October 2014 }}</ref> Installation of the nets began in May 2013 and were completed over the summer of that year.<ref name="TodayNets" /> There were cases of gorge-jumping in the 1970s and 1990s.<ref name=HuffingtonC>{{cite news |last=Fishman |first=Rob |title=Cornell Suicides: Do Ithaca's Gorges Invite Jumpers? |newspaper=] |date=16 December 2010 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-fishman/the-gorges-of-cornell-uni_b_498656.html |access-date=16 October 2014 }}</ref> Before this abnormal cluster of suicides, the suicide rate at Cornell had been similar to or below the suicide rates of other American universities, including a period between 2005 and 2008 in which no suicides occurred.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/20/new.york.cornell.suicides/index.html |title=Two suspected suicides confirmed at Cornell; total now at six |first1=Ross |last1=Levitt |name-list-style=amp |first2=Susan |last2=Candiotti |publisher=] |date=22 March 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/education/17cornell.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100318030234/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/education/17cornell.html |archive-date=18 March 2010 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=After 3 Suspected Suicides, Cornell Reaches Out |newspaper=] |date=16 March 2010 |first=Trip |last=Gabriel }}</ref>
The school colors are ] (a shade of ]) and ], a play on "Cornellian" and Andrew Dickson White. Cornell's athletic teams are referred to as the "]"; a bear is commonly used as the unofficial mascot, which dates back to the introduction of the mascot "Touchdown" in 1915, a live bear who was brought onto the field during football games. The sports teams participate in the ] and the ] (ECAC). At sporting events, Cornellians sing the university's ] "]" and ] "]". People associated with the university are called "]"; "Cornellian" may also be used as an adjective and is the name of the university's ].


==See also== ===Campus police===
Cornell University Police protect the campus and are classified as peace officers and have the same authority as the Ithaca city police. They are similar to the campus police at ], ], and ] because those campus police are classified as armed peace officers. The Cornell University Police are on campus and on-call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Their duties include: patrolling the university around the clock, responding to emergencies and non-emergency calls for service, crime prevention services, active investigation of crimes on campus, enforcement of state criminal and motor vehicle laws, and campus regulations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cupolice.cornell.edu/ |title=Cornell University Police |website=cupolice.cornell.edu |access-date=18 January 2017 }}</ref>
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== Notable people ==
{{Further|List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation}}
Cornell University has numerous notable faculty and alumni who have gone on to do noteworthy things. As of October 2024, Cornell faculty members, researchers, and alumni include 62 Nobel laureates.<ref name=nobel/>

===Faculty===
{{Main list|List of Cornell University faculty}}
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{{As of|2023}}, Cornell University had 1,637 full-and part-time professional faculty members affiliated with its main campus, excluding faculty affiliated with ], the university's medical school.<ref name=factbook/> Since its 1865 founding, many Cornell University's faculty have received global and national recognition across nearly all academic disciplines.

As of the 2005–06 academic year, Cornell faculty included three ], a ] winner, two ] winners, a ] winner, two ] recipients, a ] winner, an ] winner, three ] winners, two ] winners, five ] winners, four ] winners, a ] Scholars Medallion recipient, 20 ] career grant holders, a recipient of the ] Award, a recipient of the ]'s ], a recipient of the ], and three ] grant holders.<ref name=factbook/>

Notable Cornell faculty have included ], known as the "father of ]", who was a Cornell professor from 1933 to 1935.<ref>{{cite journal |year=1999 |title=Introduction of the 1997 Kurt Lewin Memorial Award recipient: Bertram H. Raven |journal=Journal of Social Psychology |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0341/is_1_55/ai_54831715/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305135329/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0341/is_1_55/ai_54831715/ |archive-date=5 March 2012 }}</ref> ], considered the "father of the ]", taught at the university from 1982 to 1988,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cals.cornell.edu/cals/public/comm/news/remembering-norman-borlaug.cfm |title=Borlaug's vision will never sleep |last=McCandless |first=Linda |date=14 September 2009 |publisher=Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences |access-date=11 March 2012 }}</ref> and was awarded the ], the ], the ], and 49 honorary doctorates.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/topics/borlaug/borlaug-cv.html |title=Vita of Norman Borlaug |website=Ag Bio World |access-date=11 March 2012 }}</ref> ] joined the Cornell faculty in 1952, where she served until her death in 1965, after serving as the first female member of the ], where she served as the ]; Perkins was a witness to the ] in her adolescence and, as Secretary of Labor, went on to champion the ], the ], and the ]. ] was a visiting professor at Cornell in 1952,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.domusweb.it/en/interview/fuller-and-noguchi-story-of-a-friendship/ |title=Fuller and Noguchi: story of a friendship |last=Sadao |first=Shoji |website=Domus Web |access-date=12 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302195735/http://www.domusweb.it/en/interview/fuller-and-noguchi-story-of-a-friendship |archive-date=2 March 2012 }}</ref> and ], ] scholar and ]," taught at Cornell from 1985 to 1989.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/01/magazine/black-studies-new-star-henry-louis-gates-jr.html |title=Black Studies' New Star |last=Begley |first=Adam |date=1 April 1990 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 March 2012 }}</ref> Plant genetics pioneer ] invented the first method for ], considered a major breakthrough in ], since it enabled researchers to more closely understand how genes work.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Padmanabhan |first1=R. |first2=Ray |last2=Wu |title=Use of oligonucleotides of defined sequences as primers in DNA sequence analysis |journal=Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications |year=1972 |volume=48 |issue=5 |pages=1295–1302 |doi=10.1016/0006-291x(72)90852-2 |pmid=4560009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Wu |first=Ray |title=Nucleotide Sequence Analysis of DNA |journal=Nature |date=19 April 1972 |volume=236 |issue=68 |pages=198–200 |doi=10.1038/newbio236198a0 |pmid=4553110 }}</ref> ]-winning actor ], known for his roles in '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']'', has taught at Cornell since 1999.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April09/CleeseStatler.da.html |title=John Cleese on fame, education – and hotels |last=Aloi |first=Daniel |date=23 April 2009 |newspaper=Cornell Chronicle |access-date=12 March 2012 }}</ref> ] taught in the law school from 1893 to 1895 before becoming ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/about/timeline/charles-hughes.cfm |title=Great man, great story |publisher=Cornell Law School |access-date=12 March 2012 }}</ref> ], who taught at Cornell's medical school from 1913 to 1961, invented the ] test for ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fowh.com/obgynhistory.html |title=OB-GYN History |website=Fair Oaks Women's Health |access-date=12 March 2012 |archive-date=3 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303112616/http://www.fowh.com/obgynhistory.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ] ('43), widely credited for inventing the ], taught at Cornell from 1957 to 1989. ], who narrated and co-wrote the ] and ]-winning ] series '']'' and won a ] for his book, '']'', was a professor at the university from 1968 to 1996.<ref>{{cite press release |type=obituary |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/dec96/saganobit.ltb.html |title=Carl Sagan, Cornell astronomer, died today (Dec. 20) in Seattle |last=Brand |first=David |date=20 December 1996 |publisher=Cornell University News Service |access-date=12 March 2012 }}</ref> ], founding editor of '']'', was a professor emeritus of English at Cornell.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://as.cornell.edu/abrams/ |title=M.H. Abrams 100th birthday celebration |year=2012 |publisher=Cornell U. |access-date=20 July 2012 }}</ref> ], a scientist who worked on the ] and an expert in ], was a professor emeritus of chemistry and taught from 1936 to 1971.<ref>{{cite news |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |date=17 April 1993 |title=James Lynn Hoard, 87, Is Dead; Chemist Worked on Atom Bomb |language=en-US |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/17/obituaries/james-lynn-hoard-87-is-dead-chemist-worked-on-atom-bomb.html |access-date=1 October 2020 |issn=0362-4331 }}</ref> ] taught Russian and European literature at Cornell between 1948 and 1959.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gussow |first=Mel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/15/books/toasting-analyzing-nabokov-cornell-honors-renaissance-man-who-oh-yes-wrote.html |title=Toasting (and Analyzing) Nabokov; Cornell Honors the Renaissance Man Who, oh Yes, Wrote 'Lolita' |newspaper=The New York Times |date=15 September 1998 }}</ref>

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{{Main list|List of Cornell University alumni}}
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As of 2024, Cornell University had over 250,000 living alumni,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://global.cornell.edu/table-view-cornell-alumni |title=Global Cornell – Table View: Cornell Alumni |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=13 August 2024 }}</ref> including 34&nbsp;] and 31&nbsp;].<ref name=factbook/><ref name="Rhodes Scholars"/> Cornell is the only university or college in the world with four female alumni, ], ], ], and ], who have won unshared Nobel Prizes.<ref name=nobel/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2010/10/06/letter-editor-cu-should-embrace-female-nobel-laureates |title=C.U. Should Embrace Female Nobel Laureates |date=6 October 2010 |newspaper=] |access-date=8 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112040311/http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2010/10/06/letter-editor-cu-should-embrace-female-nobel-laureates |archive-date=12 January 2012 }}</ref> Many alumni maintain university ties through the annual ] reunion weekend each fall, through ''Cornell Magazine'' distributed to alumni,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/pdfs/advertisers/09_Ad_Rates_for_Classes.pdf |title=Place a Reunion Ad in Class Notes |publisher=Cornell Alumni News |access-date=12 December 2010 }}</ref> and through the ] in ]. In 2015, Cornell ranked fifth nationally among U.S. universities and colleges for gifts and bequests from alumni.<ref name="TimeDonations">{{cite magazine |author=Mulhere, Kaitlin |date=27 January 2016 |title=These 20&nbsp;colleges raked in the biggest donations last year {{grey|}} |department=Money / College planner |magazine=] |url=http://time.com/money/4195204/2015-donations-colleges-universities/ |url-status=dead <!-- presumed --> |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128155515/http://time.com/money/4195204/2015-donations-colleges-universities/ |archive-date=28 January 2016 }}</ref>

Cornell University alumni are noted for their accomplishments in public, professional, and corporate life.<ref name=factbook/><ref>{{cite book |author1=Altschuler, Glenn C. |author2=Kramnick, Isaac |author3=Moore, R. Laurence |year=2003 |title=The 100&nbsp;most notable Cornellians |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=] |isbn=978-0-8014-3958-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/100mostnotableco00glen }}</ref> Cornell alumni include four heads of state, ], ] from 1988 to 2000,<ref>{{cite news |title=Lee Teng-hui at Cornell |website=Cornell University Campus News |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/Lee/Lee-index.html |access-date=19 July 2010 }}</ref> ], the first female president of ] from 2016 to 2024,<ref>{{cite news |title=Cornell graduate Tsai Ing-wen just did the uUnthinkable in Taiwan |website=] |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/cornell-graduate-tsai-ing-wen-just-did-unthinkable-taiwan-n498746 |access-date=18 January 2016 }}</ref> ], the ] from 1913 to 1921,<ref>{{cite web |title=Mario García Menocal |website=Latin American Studies.org |url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/menocal-bio.htm |access-date=19 July 2010 }}</ref> and ] ('50), ] from 1977 to 1978.<ref name=Bill1989>{{cite book |last=Bill |first=James A. |title=The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNBpbh-mDcoC&pg=PA223 |access-date=14 December 2010 |year=1989 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-04412-6 |page=223 }}</ref>

Among senior ] officials, Cornell alumni include ] ('60), the ] ],<ref name="DuffyLeeman2005">{{cite book |last1=Duffy |first1=Bernard K. |last2=Leeman |first2=Richard W. |title=American Voices: An encyclopedia of contemporary orators |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dqEOLyqYz2EC&pg=PR391 |access-date=14 December 2010 |date=30 August 2006 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-32790-2 |page=391 }}</ref> and ] ('54), a former ] associate justice.<ref name="Bredeson1995">{{cite book |last=Bredeson |first=Carmen |title=Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court justice |url=https://archive.org/details/ruthbaderginsbur00bred |url-access=registration |access-date=14 December 2010 |year=1995 |publisher=Enslow Publishers |isbn=978-0-89490-621-3 |page= }}</ref> Among foreign governments, ] (1914) was a Chinese reformer and ambassador of China to the U.S. and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMA02578.html |title=Guide to the Hu Shih papers at Cornell University, 1910–1963 |publisher=Cornell U. |access-date=7 October 2011 }}</ref>

In academia, alumnus ] (1872) was founding president of ],<ref name="Bishop122">{{cite book |last=Bishop |first=Morris |title=A history of Cornell |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcornell00bish_0 |url-access=registration |access-date=14 December 2010 |year=1962 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-0036-0 |page= }}</ref> and ] (1877) was the second president and first female president of ].<ref name="Horowitz1999">{{cite book |last=Horowitz |first=Helen Lefkowitz |title=The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SRH9y2sADSIC&pg=PA62 |access-date=14 December 2010 |date=1 April 1999 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-06811-9 |page=62 }}</ref>

In military service, ] ('41), a ] recipient, holds the distinction as one of the most decorated soldiers in ].<ref name="Boven2000">{{cite book |last=Boven |title=Most decorated soldier in World War II: Matt Urban |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vKMfAM0IcyYC&pg=PA5 |access-date=14 December 2010 |year=2000 |publisher=Trafford Publishing |isbn=978-1-55212-528-1 |page=5 }}</ref>

In business, Cornellians include ] CEO ] ('55),<ref name=Karlgaard-2005>{{cite book |author=Karlgaard, Rich |year=2005 |title=Life 2.0: How people across America are transforming their lives by finding the ''where'' of their happiness |place=New York, NY |publisher=] |pages=41, 42 }}</ref>{{rp|style=ama|p=42}} ] chairman ] ('59),<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Stephen Friedman: Executive Profile and Biography |magazine=Bloomberg Businessweek |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=422858&privcapId=21651&previousCapId=398625&previousTitle=GOLDMAN%20SACHS%20GROUP%20INC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730115137/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=422858&privcapId=21651&previousCapId=398625&previousTitle=GOLDMAN%20SACHS%20GROUP%20INC |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 July 2013 }}</ref> ] CEO ] ('75, '77, '80),<ref>{{cite web |title=Irene Rosenfeld bio |url=http://www.kraftfoodscompany.com/about/profile/irene-rosenfeld-bio.htm |publisher=] |access-date=1 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825231151/http://www.kraftfoodscompany.com/about/profile/irene-rosenfeld-bio.htm |archive-date=25 August 2009 }}</ref> ] CEO ] ('83),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/10/carl-bass-on-his-surprising-autodesk-exit-and-whats-next/ |title=Carl Bass on his surprising Autodesk exit — and what's next |website=TechCrunch |date=10 February 2017 |language=en-US |access-date=9 February 2020 }}</ref> ] CEO ] ('84),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aetna.com/about-aetna-insurance/aetna-corporate-profile/corporate-bios/bertolini.html |title=Bertolini biography |publisher=Aetna |access-date=5 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321203729/http://www.aetna.com/about-aetna-insurance/aetna-corporate-profile/corporate-bios/bertolini.html |archive-date=21 March 2012 }}</ref> ] CEO ] ('79, '80, '82, '84, '86),<ref>{{cite press release |title=Dr. H. Fisk Johnson named chief executive officer SC Johnson |url=http://www.scjohnson.com/family/fam_pre_pre_news.asp?art_id=151 |publisher=] |access-date=1 September 2009 }}</ref> ] Chairman ] ('59),<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Kenneth Derr: Executive Profile & Biography |magazine=Bloomberg BusinessWeek |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=615679&ticker=CVX:US&previousCapId=391687&previousTitle=CITIGROUP%20INC}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic }}</ref> ] CEO ] ('77),<ref>{{cite news |title=Cream of the crop gone sour: America's troubled CEOs |publisher=Fox News Channel |date=17 February 2009 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/cream-of-the-crop-gone-sour-americas-troubled-ceos |access-date=25 August 2010 }}</ref> ] CEO ] ('76),<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Lowell McAdam: Executive profile & biography |magazine=] |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=1132479&ticker=VZ:US |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713235818/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=1132479&ticker=VZ:US |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 July 2012 }}</ref> ] CEO ] ('72),<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Robert Selander: Executive Profile & Biography |magazine=Bloomberg BusinessWeek |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=184499&ticker=MA:US |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709050125/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=184499&ticker=MA:US |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 July 2012 }}</ref> ] CEO ] ('37),<ref name="Bishop509">{{cite book |last=Bishop |first=Morris |title=A history of Cornell |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcornell00bish_0 |url-access=registration |access-date=14 December 2010 |year=1962 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-0036-0 |page= }}</ref> ] Chairman ] ('71),<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Andrew Tisch: Executive Profile & Biography |magazine=Bloomberg BusinessWeek |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=228893&ticker=L:CN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929123915/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=228893&ticker=L:CN |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 September 2012 }}</ref> ] founder ] ('47),<ref>{{cite news |title=Olayan '77 Honored With Entrepreneur of the Year Award |last=Johnson |first=Ginny |newspaper=The Cornell Daily Sun |date=19 April 2010 |url=http://bx.businessweek.com/burger-king-corp-bkc/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcornellsun.com%2Fsection%2Fnews%2Fcontent%2F2010%2F04%2F19%2Folayan-77-honored-entrepreneur-year-award |access-date=25 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120702214543/http://bx.businessweek.com/burger-king-corp-bkc/view?url=http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2010/04/19/olayan-77-honored-entrepreneur-year-award |archive-date=2 July 2012 }}</ref> ] founder ] ('79),<ref>{{cite web |title=David S. Litman |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://classof79.alumni.cornell.edu/Classmates/25th/Litman.html |access-date=25 August 2010 }}</ref> ] founder ] ('62),<ref>{{cite web |title=With dance and tributes, Duffield is dedicated |last=Brand |first=David |work=Cornell Chronicle |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/10.14.04/Duffield_ded_cover.html |access-date=25 August 2010 }}</ref> ] founder ] ('77),<ref>{{Cite news |title=Jay Walker named 2009 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year |last=Hovis |first=Kathy |work=Cornell Chronicle |date=26 January 2009 |url=http://cdn.businessweek.com/johnson-school-at-cornell/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.cornell.edu%2Fstories%2FJan09%2FCEYWalker.html |access-date=25 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708105257/http://cdn.businessweek.com/johnson-school-at-cornell/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.cornell.edu%2Fstories%2FJan09%2FCEYWalker.html |archive-date=8 July 2011 }}</ref> ] founder ] ('62),<ref>{{cite web |title=Myra Maloney Hart |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://www.cornell.edu/presidentsearch/members/hart.cfm |access-date=25 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528132303/http://www.cornell.edu/presidentsearch/members/hart.cfm |archive-date=28 May 2010 }}</ref> ] founder ] ('56),<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs |publisher=Qualcomm |url=http://www.qualcomm.com/people/irwin-jacobs |date=21 January 2015 |access-date=10 May 2012 |archive-date=30 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830203424/http://www.qualcomm.com/people/irwin-jacobs |url-status=dead }}</ref> ] CEO ] ('62),<ref>{{cite news |title=Ratan Tata |work=The Tribune Trust |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100818/main6.htm |access-date=25 August 2010 }}</ref>] President and COO ],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://communication.cals.cornell.edu/people/reginald-fils-aim%C3%A9/ |title=Reginald Fils-Aime |date=26 June 2018 |website=Cornell College of Agriculture and Communications Department of Communications |access-date=26 June 2018 }}</ref> ] worldwide chairman ],<ref name="Pharma12">{{cite news |title=Sandra E. Peterson to Join Johnson & Johnson as Group Worldwide Chairman and Member of the Executive Committee |work=Pharma Business Week |date=24 September 2012 }}</ref> ], MD of ], and ] founder ] ('86).

In medicine, alumnus ] ('55) developed the ],<ref>{{cite book |author1=Atkins, Robert C. |author2=Veronica Atkins |title=Dr. Atkins' Quick & Easy New Diet Cookbook |url=https://archive.org/details/dratkinsquickeas00atki |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Fireside |year=2004 |page= |isbn=9780743260008 }}</ref> ] ('47) developed the ],<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Vaccariello, Linda |title=The Heimlich Maneuvers |magazine=Cincinnati |volume=39 |issue=3 |date=December 2005 |page=154 }}</ref> ] ('50) invented the ],<ref>{{cite book |author=Jeffrey, Kirk |title=Machines in Our Hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care |place=Baltimore, MD |publisher=Johns Hopkins U Press |year=2001 |page=96 }}</ref> ] ('66; also a faculty member) coined the term ],<ref>{{cite web |title=About Faculty |publisher=Weill-Cornell Medical College |date=15 July 2009 |url=http://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/aboutUs/fa/bios/maasJames.html |access-date=25 August 2010 }}</ref> ] ('41) served as ],<ref>{{cite book |author1=Kronenfeld, Jennie J. |author2=Michael R. Kronenfeld |title=Healthcare Reform in America: A Reference Handbook |url=https://archive.org/details/healthcarereform0000kron |url-access=registration |location=Santa Barbara, CA |publisher=ABC-CLIO, Inc. |year=2004 |page= |isbn=9781576079782 }}</ref> and ] served as ] during the ].<ref name="Specter">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-anthony-fauci-became-americas-doctor |title=How Anthony Fauci Became America's Doctor |last=Specter |first=Michael |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413235133/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-anthony-fauci-became-americas-doctor |archive-date=13 April 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52027201 |title=The face of America's fight against Covid-19 |date=25 March 2020 |work=BBC News |access-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200404215823/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52027201 |archive-date=4 April 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Alba_Frenkel">{{cite web |last1=Alba |first1=Davey |author-link1=Davey Alba |last2=Frenkel |first2=Sheera |title=Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/technology/coronavirus-fauci-trump-conspiracy-target.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=9 April 2020 |date=28 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402135959/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/technology/coronavirus-fauci-trump-conspiracy-target.html |archive-date=2 April 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Among inventors, Cornellians include ] ('11), who invented ],<ref>{{cite book |author=Wei, James |year=2007 |title=Product Engineering: Molecular structure and properties |location=New York |publisher=Oxford U Press |page=6 }}</ref> ] ('78), who is credited with the development of the ],<ref>{{cite web |title=Behind the Music |last=Aaron |first=Ken |work=Cornell Engineering Magazine |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/news/engineering-magazine/archives/cem-fall-2005/Behind-the-Music.cfm |access-date=25 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100708193709/http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/news/engineering-magazine/archives/cem-fall-2005/Behind-the-Music.cfm |archive-date=8 July 2010 }}</ref> and ], who developed the ] on the Internet.

In science, ] ('77) is known as "]."<ref>{{cite web |title=Bill Nye's 'Cool' Interplanetary Sundial Heads For Mars |website=Science Daily |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/12/031231083412.htm |date=3 December 2003 |access-date=25 August 2010 }}</ref> ] invented the 'universal joint' for automobiles while a student in 1903.

Eight Cornellians have served as ] ]s. ] ('81) is the principal investigator on the ] Mission.<ref>{{cite web |title=Steven W. Squyres |url=http://www.astro.cornell.edu/people/facstaff-detail.php?pers_id=112 |access-date=25 August 2010 |publisher=Cornell University Department of Astronomy }}</ref> In aerospace, ] ('40) directed the ] program that developed the ], the world's first operational ]. ] is a research scientist in the Science Directorate at the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yolanda Shea – NASA Langley Research Center Science Directorate |date=8 June 2021 |url=https://science.larc.nasa.gov/people/yolanda-shea/ |access-date=5 November 2021 |language=en-US }}</ref>

In literature, ] (M.A.'50; ]) authored the novel '']'', ] (M.A.'25; Nobel laureate) authored '']'',<ref>{{cite book |author=Champion, Laurie |title=American Women Writers, 1900–1945: A bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook |place=Westport, CT |publisher=Greenwood |year=2000 |page=55 }}</ref> and ] ('59) wrote canonical works of post-] fiction, including '']'' and '']''. ] ('95) wrote ] for which he won the ],<ref>{{cite web |title=The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/junot-diaz |website=Pulitzer Prize |access-date=9 April 2017 }}</ref> and ] (1921) authored '']'' and '']''.<ref>{{cite book |author=Elledge, Scott |title=E.B. White: A biography |place=New York |publisher=] |year=1985 |page=64 }}</ref> ], who attended but did not graduate, wrote extensively for '']'' during his studies at Cornell and went on to author '']'' and '']''. ] ('99) wrote '']'', which was later adapted into a ] starring ] and ].

In media, Cornell alumni include liberal commentators ] ('78) and ] ('79)<ref>{{cite book |author=Laufenberg, Norbert |title=Entertainment Celebrities |location=Victoria, Canada |publisher=Trafford |year=2005 |page=489 }}</ref> and conservative author ] ('84).<ref name=Karlgaard-2005/>{{rp|style=ama|p=41}}

In theatre and entertainment, Cornell alumni include actor ] ('74), who played '']'',<ref name=Karlgaard-2005/>{{rp|style=ama|p=42}} ], who played the title role of '']'' in the MGM movie ], and ] ('59) of the folk band ], who wrote the song '']'', and other classic songs. ] ('18) directed classic films, including '']'' (1938), '']'' (1940), and '']'' (1959).

In architecture, alumnus ] (1902) designed the ],<ref>{{cite book |author=Aaseng, Nathan |year=2000 |title=Construction: Building the Impossible |place=Minneapolis, MN |publisher=Oliver Press |page=116 }}</ref> and ] ('15) designed ]'s famous ].<ref name=Bishop399>{{cite book |last=Bishop |first=Morris |year=1962 |title=A history of Cornell |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-0036-0 |page= |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcornell00bish_0 |url-access=registration |access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref> In the arts, ] (1903) is often considered the first American abstract painter. ] ('69) is a pioneering feminist artist, photographer, and member of the ].

In athletics, Cornell graduates include football legend ] (1894),<ref>{{cite book |author=Hart, James D. |title=A Companion to California |place=Los Angeles, CA |publisher=U of California Press |year=1987 |page=548 }}</ref> head coach of the U.S. men's national soccer team ] ('73),<ref>{{cite web |title=Bruce Arena |series=Profile |website=] |url=http://www.soccertimes.com/usteams/roster/men/arena.htm |access-date=17 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814222919/http://www.soccertimes.com/usteams/roster/men/arena.htm |archive-date=14 August 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ] commissioner ] ('80)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Catt |first1=Mary |title=Alum named Major League Baseball's next commissioner |url=http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/Aug14/EU.Rob.Manfred.MLB.html |publisher=Cornell U. }}</ref> ] commissioner ] ('74),<ref>{{cite book |author=Gallagher, Bradley N. |title=Tips from the Top: Advice for a young person from 125 of America's most successful people |place=Victoria, BC, Canada |publisher=Trafford |year=2003 |page=224 }}</ref> six-time ] winning ] goalie ] ('69),<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Fischler, Stan |date=March 1972 |title=The NHL's 'stone-wall' goalie |magazine=] |volume=62 |issue=3 |page=46 }}</ref> tennis singles world #&nbsp;2 ],<ref>{{cite web |title=Dick Savitt – 2007 |series=Roster |website=cornellbigred.com |url=http://cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=6287}} <!-- Bot generated title --></ref> seven-time US Tennis championships winner ], ] president ] ('87),<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March06/Sports.GM.alums.lm.html |title=Raptors and Rangers choose Cornellians to lead them |first=Linda |last=Myers |date=8 March 2006 |work=Cornell Chronicle |access-date=17 September 2010 }}</ref> and ], four-time ] ] national champion.

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== Notes ==
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==References==
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==Further reading==

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*{{Cite book |last1=Altschuler |first1=Glenn |author-link1=Glenn C. Altschuler |last2=Kramnick |first2=Isaac |author-link2=Isaac Kramnick |year=2014 |title=Cornell: A History, 1940–2015 |url=https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801444258/cornell/#bookTabs=1 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-80144-425-8}}
*{{Cite book |last=Becker |first=Carl L. |author-link=Carl L. Becker |title=Cornell University: Founders and the Founding |publisher=] |date=1943 |url=http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/184}}
*{{Cite book |last=Bishop |first=Morris |author-link=Morris Bishop |title=A History of Cornell |date=1962 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=0-8014-0036-8}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.cornell.edu/president/history.cfm |title=History of the Cornell Presidency |website=Cornell University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304013758/http://www.cornell.edu/president/history.cfm |archive-date=4 March 2012}}
*{{cite book |last=Downs |first=Donald Alexander |author-link=Donald Downs |date=1999 |title=Cornell '69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=0-8014-3653-2}}
*{{Cite book |last=Kammen |first=Carol |date=2003 |title=Cornell: Glorious to View |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=0-935995-03-X}}
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#{{note|lead.research}} {{cite web | url = http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/research.htm | title = Cornell Institutional Research and Planning: Research | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|lead.china}} {{cite web | url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/7.1.04/Lehman-China_trip.html | title = "Lehman leads Cornell delegation in China; Hong Kong and India next" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}; {{cite web | url =http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/Rawlings_China_main.html | title = "Rawlings heads to China to sign partnership agreement and deliver keynote address at economic summit in Beijing" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|lead.india}} {{cite web | url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/7.15.04/Lehman_India_cover.html | title = "Lehman discusses research and academic collaborations in India" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}; {{cite web | url =http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/RawlingsIndia.bpf.html | title = "Cornell president joins Indian prime minister to open new chapter in science education" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}; {{cite web | url =http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March04/India.Grant.bpf.html | title = "Cornell's International Programs awarded $300,000 USAID grant to help bolster agricultural economy in India" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|lead.singapore}} {{cite web | url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/11.11.04/HotelSchool-Nanyang.html | title = "Hotel School, Singapore university establish joint master's program" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|lead.transnational_claim}} {{cite web | url = http://www.cornell.edu/about/mission/ | title = The Cornell University Mission | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|conception_of_cornell.western_union}} {{cite web | url = http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Ezra-exhibit/EC-life/EC-life-6.html | title = Ezra Cornell: The Business of the Telegraph | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|conception_of_cornell.cornell_quote}} {{cite web | url = http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Ezra-exhibit/EC-life/EC-life-10.html | title = Ezra Cornell: "To the poor and to posterity" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|establishment_of_cornell.act}} {{cite web | url = http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Ezra-exhibit/EC-life/Screen/C11senate1.JPEG | title = State of New York. In Senate, February 7, 1865 | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|establishment_of_cornell.trustees}} {{cite book | first = Carl | last = Becker | title = Cornell University: Founders and the Founding | year = 1943 | pages = 90 | publisher = Cornell University Press | url = http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/184}}
#{{note|establishment_of_cornell.class_size}} {{cite web | url = http://www.cornell.edu/about/facts/faq_profile.cfm?id=915 | title = Facts about Cornell - How old is Cornell? | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|establishment_of_cornell.ezra_cornell_quote}} {{cite web | url = http://www.cornell.edu/president/history_bio_white.cfm | title = Cornell University - Office of the President - Andrew Dickson White | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|establishment_of_cornell.curriculum}} {{cite book | first = Morris | last = Bishop | title = A History of Cornell | year = 1962 | pages = 75 | edition = 1st ed. | publisher = Cornell University Press | id = ISBN 0-8014-0036-8}}; {{cite book | first = Frederick | last = Rudolph | title = Curriculum: a history of the American undergraduate course of study since 1636 | year = 1977 | edition = 1st ed. | publisher = San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers | id = ISBN 0-8758-9358-9}}
#{{note|establishment_of_cornell.frederick_rudolph}} {{cite web | url = http://www.cornell.edu/academics/ | title = Cornell University - Academics - Overview | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|research.nsfnet}} {{cite web | url = http://www.nsf.gov/about/history/nsf0050/internet/launch.htm | title = The Internet - The Launch of NSFNET | accessdate = 2006-01-05}}; {{cite web | url = http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103050 | title = A Brief History of NSF and the Internet | accessdate = 2006-01-05}}; {{cite web | url = http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_nsfnet.htm | title = NSFNET, National Science Foundation Network | accessdate = 2006-01-05}}
#{{note|research.timeline}} {{cite web | url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/rover/timeline.html | title = Cornell's role in missions to Mars: 1962-2003 | accessdate = 2006-01-10}}
#{{note|research.squyres}} {{cite web | url = http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=000B5749-67A2-1150-A5AC83414B7F0000&pageNumber=2&catID=2 | title = Science and Technology at Scientific American.com: Father of Spirit and Opportunity | accessdate = 2006-01-10}}
#{{note|research.breakthrough}} {{cite web | url = http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/306/5704/2001 | title = Editorial: Breakthrough of the Year | accessdate = 2006-01-10}}
#{{note|research.rover_control}} {{cite web | url = http://www.space.com/news/rovers_cornell_041105.html | title = Space.com—Control of Mars Rovers Shifts to Cornell | accessdate = 2006-01-10}}
#{{note|cornell_university_library.collections}} {{cite web | url = http://library.cornell.edu/about/collstats.html | title = "Cornell University Library: Collection Statistics" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|cornell_university_press.history}} {{cite web | url = http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup8_presshistory.html | title = "The History of the Cornell University Press" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|main_campus.cascadilla}} {{cite web | url = http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=781416000#question9 | title = Dear Uncle Ezra: Questions for Thursday, October 6, 1994 | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|main_campus.clocktower_pumpkin}} {{cite web | url = http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/presidents/view_image.php?img=101 | title = The Great Cornell Pumpkin | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|main_campus.clocktower_discoball}} {{cite web | url = http://www.cornellsun.com/media/paper866/news/2005/04/30/BreakingNews/disco.Ball.Affixed.To.Top.Of.Mcgraw.Tower-1338428.shtml | title = "The Cornell Daily Sun - 'Disco Ball' Affixed to Top of McGraw Tower" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|main_campus.willard_straight_hall}} {{cite web | url = http://www.cornell.edu/search/index.cfm?tab=facts&q=&id=801 | title = Willard Straight Hall | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|academics.admission}} {{cite web | url = http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/profile.pdf | title = Admissions Information | accessdate=2005-11-23}}
#{{note|international_programs.study_abroad}} {{cite web | url = http://www.cuabroad.cornell.edu/programchoices/regions.asp | title = Cornell Abroad - University & Program Choices | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|international_programs.china}} {{cite web | url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov05/Rawlings_China_signing.html | title = "Cornell China major sealed in Beijing as Rawlings signs agreement with Peking University" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|international_programs.japan}} {{cite web | url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct05/Ishige.kr.html | title = "Cornell signs research agreement with Japan's genome research institute" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|international_programs.india}} {{cite web | url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec05/India.MOU.ssl.html | title = "Cornell and India sign new agreement for agricultural development" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|international_programs.bridging_the_rift}} {{cite web | url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/features/BTR/ | title = Cornell in the Desert: Bridging the Rift | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}; {{cite web | url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb04/BTR.CUresearch.deb.html | title = "Cornell and Stanford to work with Israel and Jordan on Bridging the Rift research center to include world's first databank for all living systems" | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|reputation.usnews}} {{cite web | url = http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc/tier1/t1natudoc_brief.php | title = USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2006: National Universities: Top Schools | accessdate = 2005-11-23 }}
#{{note|reputation.worldrank}} {{cite web | url = http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005_Top100.htm | title = Top 500 World Universities (1-100) | accessdate = 2005-11-23}}
#{{note|housing.north_campus}} {{cite web | url = http://ri.campuslife.cornell.edu/Ri_article_page_view.asp?action=article&ID=2318 | title = The Residential Initiative: North Campus | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|housing.west_campus}} {{cite web | url = http://ri.campuslife.cornell.edu/Ri_article_page_view.asp?action=article&ID=2345 | title = The Residential Initiative: West Campus | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
#{{note|housing.food}} {{cite web | url = http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?CategoryID=6&TopicID=45 | title = The Best 361 College Rankings on The Princeton Review: Quality of Life: Best Campus Food | accessdate = 2006-01-01}}
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Private university in Ithaca, New York, US "Cornell" redirects here. For the liberal arts college in Iowa, see Cornell College. For other uses, see Cornell (disambiguation).

Cornell University
Latin: Universitas Cornelliana
Motto"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study"
TypePrivate land-grant research university
EstablishedApril 27, 1865; 159 years ago (1865-04-27)
Founder
AccreditationMSCHE
Academic affiliations
Endowment$10.7 billion (2024)
Budget$5.4 billion (2023)
PresidentMichael Kotlikoff (interim)
ProvostJohn Siliciano
Academic staff1,639 in Ithaca, New York
1,235 in New York City
34 in Doha, Qatar
Students26,284 (fall 2023)
Undergraduates16,071 (fall 2023)
Postgraduates10,207 (fall 2023)
LocationIthaca, New York, United States
42°26′57″N 76°29′2″W / 42.44917°N 76.48389°W / 42.44917; -76.48389
CampusSmall city, 745 acres (301 ha)
Other campuses
Newspaper
ColorsCarnelian red and white
   
NicknameBig Red
Sporting affiliations
MascotTouchdown the Bear (unofficial)
Websitecornell.edu Edit this at Wikidata
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Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational and nonsectarian institution. As of fall 2023, the student body included 16,071 undergraduate and 10,207 graduate students from all 50 U.S. states and 130 countries.

The university is organized into eight undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions on its main Ithaca campus. Each college and academic division has near autonomy in defining its respective admission standards and academic curriculum. In addition to its primary campus in Ithaca, the university administers three satellite campuses, including two in New York City, the medical school and Cornell Tech, and a branch of the medical school in Al Rayyan, Qatar's Education City.

Cornell is one of three private land-grant universities in the United States. Among the university's eight undergraduate colleges, four are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York system, including the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Human Ecology, the Industrial and Labor Relations School, and the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Among Cornell's graduate schools, only the Veterinary Medicine College is supported by New York. The main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca spans 745 acres (301 ha).

As of October 2024, 64 Nobel laureates, 4 Turing Award winners, and 1 Fields Medalist have been affiliated with Cornell. Cornell counts more than 250,000 living alumni, which include 34 Marshall Scholars, 33 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 63 Olympic Medalists, 10 current Fortune 500 CEOs, and 35 billionaires.

History

Main article: History of Cornell University Cornell's foundersEzra CornellAndrew Dickson White

19th century

Cornell University was founded on 27 April 1865, by Ezra Cornell, an entrepreneur and New York State Senator, and Andrew Dickson White, an educator and also a New York State Senator, after the New York State legislature authorized the university as the state's land grant institution. Ezra Cornell offered his farm in Ithaca, New York as a preliminary site for the university, and granted $500,000 of his personal fortune as an initial endowment (equivalent to $12,373,000 in 2023) to the university. White agreed to be Cornell University's first president.

White spent the first three years at Cornell University overseeing construction of the university's first two buildings, and he traveled to recruit promising students and faculty. On 7 October 1868, Cornell University was inaugurated, and 412 male students were enrolled the following day.

Cornell developed as a technologically innovative institution, applying its academic research to its own campus and to outreach efforts. In 1883, it was one of the first university campuses to utilize electricity developed from a water-powered dynamo to light its campus. Since 1894, Cornell has included colleges that are state-funded and fulfill state statutory requirements; it has also administered research and extension activities that have been jointly funded by New York state and U.S. federal government matching funds.

Beginning with its first classes, Cornell University has had active and engaged alumni. In 1872, the university became one of the first universities in the nation to include alumni-elected representatives on its board of trustees.

Cornell University is home to Cornell University Press, founded in 1869. Cornell was first home to the Cornell Era, a weekly campus publication founded in 1868. In 1880, it was replaced with the founding of The Cornell Daily Sun, an independent student-run newspaper, which is now one of the nation's longest continuously published student newspapers.

From the 19th to early 20th centuries, Cornell had several literary societies that were founded to encourage writing, reading, and oration skills. The U.S. Bureau of Education described three of them as a "purely literary society" following the traditions of the old literary societies of Eastern universities.

20th century

Willard Straight Hall on the Cornell campus, which was occupied by armed anti-Vietnam War protesters in 1969, leading to the resignation of James Alfred Perkins, Cornell's seventh president

In 1967, Cornell experienced a fire in the Residential Club dormitory that killed eight students and one professor. In the late 1960s, Cornell was among the Ivy League universities that experienced heightened student activism related to cultural issues, civil rights, and opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1969, armed anti-Vietnam War protesters occupied Willard Straight Hall, an incident that led to a restructuring of the university's governance and forced the resignation of then Cornell president James Alfred Perkins.

Since the 20th century, rankings of universities and colleges, Cornell University and its academic programs have routinely ranked among the best in the world. In 1995, the National Research Council ranked Cornell's PhD programs as sixth-best in the nation. It also ranked the academic quality of 18 individual Cornell Ph.D. programs among the top ten in the nation, which included astrophysics (ninth-best), chemistry (sixth-best), civil engineering (sixth-best), comparative literature (sixth-best), computer science (fifth-best), ecology (fourth-best), electrical engineering (seventh-best), English (seventh-best), French (eighth-best), geosciences (tenth-best), German (third-best), linguistics (ninth-best), materials science (third-best), mechanical engineering (seventh-best), philosophy (ninth-best), physics (sixth-best), Spanish (eighth-best), and statistics/biostatistics (fourth-best). The council ranked Cornell's College of Arts and Humanities faculty as fifth-best in the nation, its Mathematics and Physical Sciences faculty as sixth-best, and its College of Engineering as fifth-best.

21st century

Further information: Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and Cornell Tech
Cornell Tech, founded in 2017 on Roosevelt Island in New York City

In 2000, Cornell began expanding its international programs. In 2004, the university opened Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar in Education City in Al Rayyan, Qatar. The university also developed partnerships with academic institutions in India, the People's Republic of China, and Singapore.

In August 2002, a graduate student group, At What Cost?, was formed at Cornell to oppose a graduate student unionization drive run by CASE/UAW, an affiliate of the United Auto Workers. The vote to unionize, held in October 2002, was rejected, and At What Cost? was considered instrumental in the unusually large 90% turnout for the vote and in the 2-to-1 defeat of the unionization proposal, the first instance in history in which a U.S. graduate school vote on unionization was defeated in a vote.

In March 2004, Cornell and Stanford University laid the cornerstone for the building and operation of "Bridging the Rift Center", located on the border between Israel and Jordan, and used for education. In 2005, Jeffrey S. Lehman, a former president of Cornell, described the university and its high international profile as a "transnational university".

In 2017, Cornell opened Cornell Tech, a graduate campus and research center on Roosevelt Island in New York City, which won a competition bid initiated by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and is designed to spur technology entrepreneurship in New York City.

Campuses

Ithaca campus

The Arts Quad on Cornell's main campus with McGraw Tower in the background
Ho Plaza seen from McGraw Tower with Sage Hall and Barnes Hall in the background
Sage Chapel on the Cornell campus, which hosts religious services and concerts and is the final resting place of Ezra Cornell, the university's founder

Cornell University's main campus is located in Ithaca, New York, on East Hill, offering views of the city and Cayuga Lake. The campus has expanded to approximately 745 acres (301 ha) since its founding, now including multiple academic buildings, laboratories, administrative facilities, athletic centers, auditoriums, museums, and residential areas. In 2011, Travel + Leisure recognized Cornell's campus in Ithaca as one of the most beautiful in the United States, praising its unique blend of architectural styles, historic landmarks, and picturesque surroundings.

The Ithaca campus is characterized by an irregular layout and a mix of architectural styles, which have developed over time and are attributed to the university's ever-changing master plans for the campus. The more ornate buildings generally predate World War II. Since then, more recent buildings on the campus are characterized by modernist architectural styles.

Several Cornell University buildings have been named National Historic Landmarks, and ten have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Andrew Dickson White House, Bailey Hall, Caldwell Hall, the Computing and Communications Center, Morrill Hall, Rice Hall, Fernow Hall, Wing Hall, Llenroc, and Deke House. Three other listed historic buildings, the original Roberts Hall, East Robert Hall, and Stone Hall, were demolished in the 1980s to make way for new campus buildings and development.

Central, North, and West campuses

Main articles: Cornell Central Campus, Cornell North Campus, and Cornell West Campus

The majority of Cornell University's academic and administrative facilities are located on its main campus in Ithaca. The architectural styles on the campus range from ornate Collegiate Gothic, Victorian, and Neoclassical buildings to more spare international and modernist structures. Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park, proposed a "grand terrace" overlooking Cayuga Lake in one of the earliest plans for the development of the campus.

North Campus features primarily residential buildings, including ten residence halls designed to accommodate first and second-year students, and transfer students in the Townhouse Community. The architectural styles of North Campus are more modern, reflecting the growth of the university and need for expanded student housing during the 20th century.

The West Campus House System showcases a blend of architectural styles, including Gothic-style buildings and residential halls collectively known as "the Gothics."

In Collegetown, located near the campus in Ithaca, the architectural styles are diverse, reflecting the area's mixed-use nature. The Schwartz Performing Arts Center and two upper-level residence halls are surrounded by a variety of apartment buildings, eateries, and businesses.

Natural surroundings

Cornell University's main campus in Ithaca is located in the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York and features views of the city, Cayuga Lake, and surrounding valleys. The campus is bordered by two gorges, Fall Creek Gorge and Cascadilla Gorge. The gorges are popular swimming spots during warmer months, but their use is discouraged by the university and city code due to potential safety hazards. Adjacent to the main campus, Cornell owns the 2,800-acre (1,100 ha) Cornell Botanic Gardens, which features various plants, trees, and ponds.

Sustainability

Further information: Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Cornell University has implemented several green initiatives, designed to promote sustainability and reduce environmental impact, including a gas-fired combined heat and power facility, an on-campus hydroelectric plant, and a lake source cooling system. In 2007, Cornell established a Center for a Sustainable Future The same year, following a multiyear, cross-campus discussion about energy and sustainability, Cornell's Atkinson Center for Sustainability was established, funded by an $80 million gift from alumnus David R. Atkinson ('60) and his wife Patricia, the largest gift ever received by Cornell from an individual at the time. A subsequent $30 million commitment in 2021 will name a new building on campus.

As of 2020, the university, which has committed to achieving net carbon neutrality by 2035 is powered by six solar farms, which provide 28 megawatts of power. Cornell is developing an enhanced geothermal system, known as Earth Source Heating, designed to meet campus heating needs.

In 2023, Cornell was the first university in the nation to commit to Kyoto Protocol emission reductions. The same year, a concert held at Barton Hall by Dead & Company raised $3.1 million for MusiCares and the Cornell 2030 Project, two organizations which have contributed to the establishment of the Climate Solutions Fund and aims to catalyze large-scale, impactful climate research across the university, which will be administered by the Atkinson Center.

New York City campuses

Weill Cornell

Main article: Weill Cornell Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine, the medical school of Cornell University, located on the East River on the Upper East Side of New York City

Cornell's medical campus in New York City, also called Weill Cornell, is on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is home to two Cornell divisions, Weill Cornell Medicine, the university's medical school, and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Since 1927, Weill Cornell has been affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the nation's largest hospitals. While Cornell's medical school maintains its own faculty and academic divisions, it shares administrative and teaching hospital functions with Columbia University Medical Center. In addition to NewYork-Presbyterian, Cornell's teaching hospitals include Payne Whitney Clinic in Manhattan and its Westchester Division in White Plains, New York. Weill Cornell Medical College is affiliated with neighboring Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, one of the nation's leading cancer centers, Rockefeller University, and the Hospital for Special Surgery. Many faculty members have joint appointments at these institutions. Weill Cornell, Rockefeller, and Memorial Sloan–Kettering offer the Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program, which is available to selected entering Cornell medical students. From 1942 to 1979, the Weill Cornell Medical campus also housed the Cornell School of Nursing.

Cornell Tech

Main article: Cornell Tech
Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in New York City, a graduate campus and research center

On 19 December 2011, Cornell and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa won a competition for rights to claim free city land and $100 million in subsidies to build an engineering campus in New York City. The competition, established by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was designed to increase entrepreneurship and job growth in New York City's technology sector. The winning bid consisted of a 2.1 million square foot state-of-the-art tech campus to be built on Roosevelt Island, on the site of the former Coler Specialty Hospital. The following year, in fall 2012, instruction began at a temporary location at space donated by Google, located at 111 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. In 2014, construction began on the Cornell Tech campus, and the first phase was completed in September 2017. Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects was selected to design Cornell Tech's first building.

Other New York City programs

Over a dozen Cornell University programs are based in the General Electric Building in Manhattan.

In addition to the tech campus and medical center, Cornell maintains local offices in New York City for some of its service programs. The Cornell Urban Scholars Program encourages students to pursue public service careers, arranging assignments with organizations working with New York City's poorest children, families, and communities. The College of Human Ecology and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences enable students to reach out to local communities by gardening and building with the Cornell Cooperative Extension. Students om the School of Industrial and Labor Relations' Extension and Outreach Program make workplace expertise available to organizations, union members, policymakers, and working adults. The College of Engineering's Operations Research Manhattan, located in the city's Financial District, brings together business optimization research and decision support services used in financial applications and public health logistics planning. In 2015, the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning opened an 11,000 square foot, Gensler-designed facility at 26 Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District. The General Electric Building at 570 Lexington Avenue serves as the New York City location for over a dozen additional Cornell University programs, including the New York City headquarters of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the New York City branch of the Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

Main article: Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

In September 2004, Cornell opened the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar in Education City, near Doha, which is the first U.S. medical school established outside of the United States. The college, which is a joint initiative with the Qatar government, is part of Cornell's efforts to increase its international influence. The college, a full four-year MD program, mirrors the medical school curriculum taught at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. The college also offers a two-year undergraduate pre-medical program, which has a separate admissions process and was established as an undergraduate program in September 2002 as the first coeducational institute of higher education in Qatar.

The college is partially funded by the Qatar government through the Qatar Foundation, a Qatar state-led non-profit organization, which contributed $750 million for its construction. The medical center is housed in a large two-story structure designed by Arata Isozaki, a Japanese architect. In 2004, the Qatar Foundation, announced the construction of a 350-bed Specialty Teaching Hospital near the medical college in Education City, which was to be completed in a few years.

Other facilities

Cornell University owns and operates a variety of off-campus research facilities and offers study abroad and scholarship programs. These facilities and programs contribute to the university's research endeavors and provide students with unique learning opportunities.

Research facilities

Further information: Cornell Lab of Ornithology and New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University
A World War I memorial on Cornell's West Campus in Ithaca
Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, designed by I. M. Pei

Cornell's off-campus research facilities include Shoals Marine Laboratory, a seasonal marine field station on Appledore Island off the MaineNew Hampshire coast, which is operated in conjunction with the University of New Hampshire and focuses on undergraduate education and research. Until 2011, Cornell operated Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which was the site of the world's largest single-dish radio telescope.

The university maintains several facilities dedicated to conservation and ecology, including the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York, which operates three substations, the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory in Portland, the Hudson Valley Laboratory in Highland, and the Long Island Horticultural Research Laboratory in Riverhead on Long Island. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca conducts research on biological diversity in birds.

Additional research facilities include the Animal Science Teaching and Research Center, the Duck Research Laboratory, the Cornell Biological Field Station, the Freeville Organic Research Farm, the Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm, and biodiversity laboratories in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and the Peruvian Amazonia in Peru.

Study abroad and scholarship programs

Cornell offers various study abroad and scholarship programs, which allow students to gain experience and earn credit towards their degrees. The "Capital Semester" program offers students the opportunity to intern in the New York State Legislature in Albany, the state capital. The Cornell in Washington program enables students to spend a semester in Washington, D.C., participating in research or internships. The Cornell in Rome program allows students to study architecture, urban studies, and the arts in Rome, Italy. The university is also a member of the Laidlaw Scholars program, which provides funding to undergraduates to conduct internationally focused research and foster leadership skills.

Cooperative extension service

As New York state's land-grant university, Cornell operates a cooperative extension service, which includes 56 offices across the state. These offices provide programs in agriculture and food systems, children, youth and families, community and economic vitality, environment and natural resources, and nutrition and health. The university operates New York's Animal Health Diagnostic Center, which conducts animal disease control and husbandry.

Organization and administration

Cornell University is a nonprofit organization with a decentralized structure in which its 16 colleges, including 12 privately endowed colleges and four publicly supported statutory colleges, exercise significant autonomy to define and manage their respective academic programs, admissions, advising, and confer degrees. Cornell also operates eCornell, which provides online professional development and certificate programs and participates in New York's land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant programs.

Cornell University colleges and schools
College or school Year founded

Agriculture and Life Sciences 1874
Architecture, Art, and Planning 1871
Arts and Sciences 1865
Business 1946
Computing and Information Science 2020
Engineering 1870
Graduate School 1909
Hotel Administration 1922
Human Ecology 1925
Industrial and Labor Relations 1945
Law 1887
Medical Sciences 1952
Medicine 1898
Public Administration 2021
Tech 2011
Veterinary Medicine 1894

Governance and administration

Further information: Michael Kotlikoff

Cornell University was chartered by an act of the New York State Legislature (Chapter 585 of the Laws of 1865) which was later codified into Article 115 (sections 5701 through 5716) of the Education Law of the Consolidated Laws of New York.

Cornell University is governed by a 64-member board of trustees, which includes both privately and publicly appointed trustees appointed by the Governor of New York, alumni-elected trustees, faculty-elected trustees, student-elected trustees, and non-academic staff-elected trustees. The Governor, Temporary President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly, and president of the university serve in ex officio voting capacities. The board is responsible for electing a President to serve as the university's chief executive and educational officer. From 2014 to 2022, Robert Harrison served as chairman of the board. He was succeeded by Kraig Kayser. The Board of Trustees holds four regular meetings annually, which are subject to the New York State Open Meetings Law.

The university charter (specifically, paragraph 1.b of section 5703 of the Education Law) provides that one member of the board, the life trustee, is the eldest living lineal descendant of Ezra Cornell. As of 2024, the current and longest-serving life trustee is Ezra Cornell, class of 1971, the great-great-great-grandson of the original Ezra Cornell. He celebrated 50 years of service as a board member in 2019. His eldest daughter Katy Cornell, class of 2001, is expected to become the next life trustee.

On 1 July 2024, Michael Kotlikoff, who served as Cornell's 16th provost, began a two-year term as interim president, succeeding Martha E. Pollack, Cornell's fourteenth president, who announced her retirement in May 2024.

Colleges and academic structure

Cornell's colleges and schools offer a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs, including seven undergraduate colleges and seven schools offering graduate and professional programs. All academic departments at Cornell are affiliated with at least one college. Several inter-school academic departments offer courses in more than one college. Students pursuing graduate degrees in these schools are enrolled in Cornell University Graduate School. The School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions provides additional programs for college and high school students, professionals, and other adults.

Cornell's four statutory colleges include the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and College of Veterinary Medicine. In the 2010–2011 fiscal year, these four colleges received $131.9 million in State University of New York (SUNY) appropriations to support teaching, research, and service missions, making them accountable to SUNY trustees and state agencies. New York residents enrolled in these colleges qualify for discounted tuition; however, their academic activities are considered by New York state to be private and non-state entities. The Brooks School of Public Policy is a subpart of the College of Human Ecology, and the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management is a subpart of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Cornell's nine privately endowed, non-statutory colleges include the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, College of Engineering, and Nolan School of Hotel Administration, each of which operate independently of state funding and oversight, which grants them greater autonomy in determining their academic programs, admissions, and advising. They also do not offer discounted tuition for New York residents.

As of 2023, among Cornell's 15,182 undergraduate students, 4,602 (30.3%) are affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences, which is the largest college by enrollment, followed by 3,203 (21.1%) in Engineering, and 3,101 (20.4%) in Agriculture and Life Sciences. The smallest of the seven undergraduate colleges is Architecture, Art, and Planning, with 503 (3.3%) students. Academic requirements for graduation are developed and managed by the respective colleges, and university-wide requirements for a baccalaureate degree include passing a swimming test, completing two physical education courses, and satisfying a writing requirement.

Fundraising and financial support

As of 2024, Cornell University has an endowment of $10.7 billion, the 14th-largest among all U.S. universities and colleges. In 2018, Cornell ranked third among all U.S. universities behind Harvard University and Stanford University in private fundraising, collecting $743 million. In addition to the university development program in Ithaca and New York City, each college and program has its own staffed fundraising programs. Cornell University has a robust fundraising program, and it has been the recipient of several sizable private donations, which have enabled the university to expand its reach, create new programs, and drive advancements in education and research.

In 1998, Weill Cornell Medicine was renamed in recognition of 1955 Cornell alumnus Sanford I. Weill, former chairman and CEO of Citibank, and his wife, following their $100 million donation to the university. As of 2013, the Weills have provided over $600 million in total donations to the university.

In 2010, the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future was established following an $80 million donation from David Atkinson and his wife, Patricia.

In 2011, Chuck Feeney, a 1956 alumnus and founder of Hong Kong-based DFS Group, became the university's largest private donor in the university's history, giving $1 billion to the university to fund Cornell Tech, a technology-focused campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City, and other initiatives.

In 2015, Joan and Irwin M. Jacobs, a 1956 alumnus and founder of Qualcomm, donated $133 million to fund the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.

In 2017, the university received a $150 million donation from Herbert Fisk Johnson III, an alumnus with five Cornell degrees and chairman and CEO of S. C. Johnson & Son, to create the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, representing the second-largest gift in history to a business school.

Academics

Cornell is a large and primarily residential research university, and a majority of its students are enrolled in undergraduate programs. Since 1921, the university has been accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and its predecessor. Cornell operates on a 4–1–4 academic calendar with the fall term beginning in late August and ending in early December, a three-week winter session in January, and the spring term beginning in late January and ending in early May.

Cornell is a land-, space-, and sea-grant university, and until 2014 was a sun-grant university as well.

Admissions

Undergraduate admissions statistics
2022 entering
class
Admit rate6.9%
Yield rate69%
Test scores middle 50%
SAT EBRW700–760
SAT Math750–800
ACT Composite33–35
High school GPA
Top 10%83.7%
Top 25%97.7%
Top 50%99.9%
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Admission to Cornell University is highly competitive. In fall 2022, Cornell's undergraduate programs for its Class of 2026 included 71,164 applications from which only 5,168, or 6.9% applicants, were accepted. For enrolling freshmen, the middle 50% range of SAT scores were 700–760 for evidence-based reading and writing and 750–800 for mathematics, and the middle 50% range of the ACT composite score was 33–35.

The university attract a diverse and inclusive student body. In 2022, the proportion of admitted students who self-identify as underrepresented minorities increased to 34.2%, up from 33.7% in 2021, and 59.3% self-identify as students of color, an increase from 52.5% in 2017 and 57.2% in 2020. Among the 5,168 admitted in 2022, 1,163 were first-generation college students, up from 844 in 2020. The university practices need-blind admission for U.S. applicants.

Financial aid

The sarcophagus of Jennie McGraw, a Cornell benefactor, in Sage Chapel

Cornell University, under Section 9 of its original charter, ensures equal access to education by admitting students without distinction based on rank, class, occupation, or locality. The charter also mandates free instruction for one student from each Assembly district in New York state.

From the 1950s to the 1980s, Cornell collaborated with other Ivy League institutions to establish a uniform financial aid system. Although a 1989 consent decree ended this collaboration due to an antitrust investigation, all Ivy League schools still offer need-based financial aid without athletic scholarships. In December 2010, Cornell pledged to match any grant component of financial aid offers from the seven other Ivy League schools and MIT and Stanford for accepted applicants considering these institutions.

In 2008, Cornell introduced a financial aid initiative, which incrementally replaced need-based loans with scholarships for undergraduate students from lower-income families. Despite a 27% drop in the university's endowment in 2008, attributable partly to the 2007–2008 financial crisis, Cornell president David J. Skorton allocated additional funds to continue the initiative, and sought to raise $125 million in donations for its support. Two years later, in 2010, Cornell was able to successfully meet the full financial aid needs of 40% of full-time freshmen with financial need. The average undergraduate student debt upon graduation, as of 2010, was $21,549.

International programs

Further information: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program and Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Cornell students performing a Raas, a traditional folk dance from India, in 2008

Cornell University is actively involved in fostering international cooperation and engagement through various academic programs, research collaborations, and global partnerships. The university is a member of United Nations Academic Impact, aligns itself with United Nations' goals, and promotes international collaboration among institutions of higher education.

Academic programs and study abroad opportunities

Cornell University's 1920 graduation ceremony

Cornell offers a wide range of undergraduate majors with an international focus, including African Studies, Asian-Pacific American Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Latino Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Studies, and Russian Literature. Students have the opportunity to study abroad on any of the six continents through various programs.

The Asian Studies major, the Southeast Asia Program, and the China and Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) major provide opportunities for students and researchers focusing on Asia. Cornell has an agreement with Peking University, which allows CAPS students to spend a semester in Beijing. The College of Engineering exchanges faculty and graduate students with Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the School of Hotel Administration has a joint master's program with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

In the Middle East, Cornell's efforts are centered on biology and medicine. The Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar trains new doctors to improve health services in the region. The university is also involved in developing the Bridging the Rift Center, a "Library of Life", a database of all living systems, based on the Israel-Jordan forder, in collaboration with those two countries and Stanford University.

The university has agreements with several institutions around the world for student and faculty exchange programs, including Bocconi University, the University of Warwick, Japan's National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, the University of the Philippines Los Baños, and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

Joint degree programs

Further information: Global Alliance in Management Education

Cornell offers several joint degree programs with international universities. The university is the only U.S. member school of the Global Alliance in Management Education, and its Master's in International Management program offers the Global Alliance's Master's in International Management (CEMS MIM) as a double degree option, which enables students to study at one of 34 Global Alliance partner universities. Cornell has partnered with Queen's University in Ontario to offer a joint Executive MBA program, which affords its graduates MBA degrees from both universities. Cornell also offers an international consulting course in association with the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Rankings

Academic rankings
National
Forbes10
U.S. News & World Report11 (tie)
Washington Monthly8
WSJ/College Pulse27
Global
ARWU12 (tie)
QS16
THE20
U.S. News & World Report19 (tie)
Cornell's commencement ceremony at Schoellkopf Field, the university's on-campus outdoor stadium, in 2008

Cornell University has been routinely ranked among the top academic institutions in the nation and world by independent academic ranking assessments. In 2024, Cornell was ranked 10th-best in the U.S. and 12th-best in the world by QS World University Rankings and 20th-best in the world by Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The university has garnered praise for its contributions to research, community service, social mobility, and sustainability, evidenced by its placement in The Washington Monthly and The Princeton Review's rankings.

In its annual edition of "America's Best Architecture & Design Schools," the journal Design Intelligence ranked Cornell's Bachelor of Architecture program best in the nation for most of the 21st century, including from 2000 to 2002, 2005 to 2007, 2009 to 2013, and 2015 to 2016. In its 2011 survey, the program ranked first and the Master of Architecture program ranked sixth-best in the nation. In 2017, Design Intelligence ranked Cornell's Master of Landscape Architecture program fourth-best in the nation and its Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture program fifth-best nationally.

Among business schools in the U.S., Forbes ranked Cornell's Johnson School of Management the ninth-best business school in the nation in 2019. In 2020, The Washington Post ranked the School of Management eighth-best for salary potential, and Poets and Quants ranked it the 13th-best business school in the nation, fourth-best in the nation for investment banking, and sixth-best globally for salary. The Johnson School of Management was ranked 11th-best nationally by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2019, and 11th-best nationally and 14th-best globally by The Economist. In 2013, the Johnson school was ranked second-best for sustainability by Bloomberg Businessweek.

Cornell's international relations program is ranked among the best in the world by Foreign Policy magazine's Inside the Ivory Tower survey, which ranked Cornell's undergraduate program 12th-best in the world and its doctorate program 11th-best in the world in 2012. In 2015, Cornell was ranked third-best among all New York colleges and universities for professor salaries.

Library

Main article: Cornell University Library
The A.D. White Reading Room in Uris Library, which contains much of the 30,000 volume collection donated to the university by its co-founder and first president
Cornell Law Library, one of 12 national depositories for the print records of briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court

As of 2020, Cornell University Library, with over 10 million holdings, is the 13th-largest academic library in the United States. As of 2005, the library is organized into 20 divisions, which hold 7.5 million printed volumes in open stacks, 8.2 million microfilms and microfiches, a total of 440,000 maps, motion pictures, DVDs, sound recordings, and computer files in its collections, and extensive digital resources and the University Archives. It was the first among all U.S. colleges and universities to allow undergraduates to borrow books from its libraries. In 2006, The Princeton Review ranked it the 11th-best college library. Three years later, in 2009, it climbed to sixth-best. The library plays an active role in furthering online archiving of scientific and historical documents. arXiv, an e-print archive created at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Paul Ginsparg, is operated and primarily funded by Cornell as part of the library's services. The archive has changed the way many physicists and mathematicians communicate, making the e-print a viable and popular means of announcing new research.

Cornell University Press

Main article: Cornell University Press

Cornell University Press, established in 1869 but inactive from 1884 to 1930, was the first university publishing enterprise in the United States. As of 2024, it is one of the country's largest university presses, publishing approximately 150 nonfiction titles annually in various disciplines, including anthropology, Asian studies, biological sciences, classics, history, industrial relations, literary criticism and theory, natural history, politics and international relations, veterinary science, and women's studies.

Academic publications

Further information: Administrative Science Quarterly, Cornell International Affairs Review, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Cornell Law Review, Cornell Policy Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and Physical Review

Cornell's academic units and student groups publish multiple scholarly journals, including at least five faculty-led and seven student-led academic publications. Faculty-led publications include the Johnson School's Administrative Science Quarterly, the ILR School's Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the Arts and Sciences Philosophy Department's The Philosophical Review, the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning's Journal of Architecture, and the Law School's Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Student-led scholarly publications include Cornell Law Review, the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs' Cornell Policy Review, the Cornell International Law Journal, the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, and Cornell International Affairs Review. Physical Review, recognized internationally as one of the best and well known journals of physics, was founded at Cornell in 1893 before later being managed by the American Physical Society.

Research

Cornell's Center for Advanced Computing, one of the five original centers of the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program
Cornell Botanic Gardens, located adjacent to the Ithaca campus, used for conservation research and for recreation by Cornellians
In the basement of Goldwin Smith Hall, researchers in the Dendrochronology Lab determine the age of archaeological artifacts found at archeological digs.

Cornell University is a prominent research institution, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity." The National Science Foundation ranked Cornell 14th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2021 with $1.18 billion. The Department of Health and Human Services and the National Science Foundation are the primary federal investors, accounting for 49.6% and 24.4% of all federal investments, respectively. Cornell is ranked fourth in the world for producing graduates who pursue PhDs in engineering or natural sciences at American institutions and fifth for graduates pursuing PhDs in any field.

Science, technology, and engineering research

Further information: Automotive Crash Injury Research Center, Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing, and Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education

Cornell has a rich history of scientific, technological, and engineering research accomplishments. The university has made significant contributions to the fields of nuclear physics, high-energy physics, space exploration, automotive safety, and computing technology, among others. Cornell consistently ranks among the top U.S. universities for patent acquisition and start-up company formation. In the 2004–05 academic year, the university filed 203 U.S. patent applications, completed 77 commercial license agreements, and distributed royalties of more than $4.1 million to Cornell units and inventors. In 2009 Cornell spent $671 million on science and engineering research and development, the 16th highest in the United States.

Cornell has been involved in uncrewed missions to Mars since 1962 and played a vital role in the Mars Exploration Rover Mission in the 21st century. The university's researchers discovered the rings around the planet Uranus and operated the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico until 2011. This observatory housed the world's largest single-dish radio telescope at the time.

The Automotive Crash Injury Research Center, founded in 1952, was a pioneering effort in crash testing and significantly improved vehicle safety standards. It was the first to use corpses instead of dummies for testing, leading to crucial findings about the effectiveness of seat belts, energy-absorbing steering wheels, padded dashboards, and improved door locks.

Cornell has long been at the forefront of advancements in computing technology. In the 1980s, the university deployed the first IBM 3090-400VF and coupled two IBM 3090-600E systems to investigate coarse-grained parallel computing. As part of the National Science Foundation's initiative to establish new supercomputer centers, the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing was founded. Cornell has continued to innovate in this area, most recently deploying Red Cloud, a cloud computing service designed specifically for research. The Red Cloud service is now part of the NSF's Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) supercomputing program.

In the realm of high-energy physics, Cornell scientists have been researching fundamental particles for over 75 years. The university has played an integral role in the foundations of nuclear physics, with faculty members Hans Bethe and others participating in the Manhattan Project. In the 1930s, Cornell built the second cyclotron in the United States and, in the 1950s, became the first to study synchrotron radiation. The Cornell Electron Storage Ring, located beneath Alumni Field, was once the world's highest-luminosity electron-positron collider. Cornell's accelerator and high-energy physics groups are involved in the design of the proposed International Linear Collider, which will complement the Large Hadron Collider and shed light on questions related to dark matter and the existence of extra dimensions.

Philosophical research

The Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University was founded in 1891 with philanthropic support from Henry W. Sage, a prominent figure in the lumber industry. In 1891, Sage endowed the establishment of the Sage School. The school's namesake, Susan Linn Sage, died in 1885 in a carriage accident on Slaterville Road. Henry W. Sage, who was President of Cornell's Board of Trustees since 1875, sought to honor his late wife's memory through the establishment of the Sage School. In addition to the school's founding, Sage bestowed the title of Susan Linn Sage Professor of Christian Ethics and Mental Philosophy upon then Cornell president Jacob Gould Schurman.

A cornerstone of the Sage School's early endeavors was the founding of The Philosophical Review in 1891, which was the first genuine philosophical review in the United States and has since been continuously published by the Sage School since its inception.

The Sage School of Philosophy's faculty has included several prominent philosophy scholars:

  • Max Black, a leading figure in analytic philosophy, made significant contributions during his tenure at Cornell, where he remained from 1946 to 1977.
  • Edwin A. Burtt, as the Susan Linn Sage Professor, challenged prevailing positivist and scientific views with his book, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, published in 1924.
  • Norman Malcolm, known for his engagement with Ludwig Wittgenstein's later thought, left a lasting impact on philosophy of mind, free will, determinism, and philosophy of religion during his time at the Sage School from 1947 to 1978.
  • John Rawls, widely regarded as one of the greatest American political philosophers, spent a year of his graduate studies at the Sage School prior to joining the department as faculty, where he served from 1953 to the early 1960s.
  • George Holland Sabine, known for his seminal work A History of Political Theory, published in 1937, provided a comprehensive account of political theory from ancient times to the rise of Nazism and fascism.
  • Gregory Vlastos, a distinguished scholar, joined Cornell in 1948 as the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy. His work synthesized ancient philosophy and analytic philosophy, marking a decisive change to the study of Greek philosophy in the English-speaking world.

In a 2024 ranking published by the Philosophical Gourmet, Sage School is ranked among the best programs at 19, and top five in the world in the fields of value theory, that is their focus on moral psychology, metaethics, applied ethics, philosophy of law, social philosophy and history of philosophy ranging from ancient philosophy to modern philosophy. As of 2024, Sage School is home to several notable philosophers, including Tad Brennan, John Doris, Rachana Kamtekar, Kate Manne, Julia Markovits, Andrei Marmor, Shaun Nichols, Derk Pereboom, and others.

Student life

Student body composition as of 2 May 2022
Race and ethnicity Total
White 35% 35 
Asian 21% 21 
Hispanic 15% 15 
Other 13% 13 
Foreign national 10% 10 
Black 7%
Economic diversity
Low-income 16% 16 
Affluent 84% 84 

Activities

Further information: Cornell Catholic Community, Cornell University Glee Club, Quill and Dagger, Sphinx Head, Telluride House, and The Chordials
The interior windows of Barton Hall, an on-campus field house
Fuertes Observatory on Cornell North Campus

As of the 2016–2017 academic year, Cornell had over 1,000 registered student organizations. These clubs and organizations run the gamut from kayaking to full-armor jousting, from varsity and club sports and a cappella groups to improvisational theatre, from political clubs and publications to chess and video game clubs. The Cornell International Affairs Society sends over 100 Cornellians to collegiate Model United Nations conferences across North America and hosts the Cornell Model United Nations Conference each spring for over 500 high school students. The Cornell University Mock Trial Association regularly sends teams to the national championship and is ranked fifth in the nation. The Cornell International Affairs Society's traveling Model United Nations team was ranked 16th in the nation as of 2010. Cornell United Religious Work is a collaboration among many diverse religious traditions, helping to provide spiritual resources throughout a student's time at college. The Cornell Catholic Community is the largest Catholic student organization on campus. Student organizations also include a myriad of groups including a symphony orchestra, concert bands, formal and informal choral groups, including the Glee Club, the Chordials and other musical groups that play everything from classical, jazz, to ethnic styles in addition to the Big Red Marching Band, which performs regularly at football games and other campus events.

Organized in 1868, the oldest Cornell student organization is the Cornell University Glee Club. Cornell also has an active outdoor community, including Cornell Outdoor Education and Outdoor Odyssey, a student-run group that runs pre-orientation trips for first-year and transfer students. A Cornell student organization, The Cornell Astronomical Society, runs public observing nights every Friday evening at the Fuertes Observatory. The university is home to the Telluride House, an intellectual residential society. The university is also home to three secret honor societies, Sphinx Head, Der Hexenkreis, and Quill and Dagger that have maintained a campus presence for over 120 years.

Cornell's clubs are primarily subsidized financially by the Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, two student-run organizations with a collective budget of $3.0 million per year. The assemblies also finance other student life programs including a concert commission and an on-campus theater.

Greek life, professional, and honor societies

Main article: List of Cornell University fraternities and sororities

Cornell hosts a large fraternity and sorority system, with 70 chapters involving 33% of male and 24% of female undergraduates. Cornell's Greek Life has an extensive history on the campus with the first fraternity, Zeta Psi, being chartered by the end of the university's first year. Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek organization established for African Americans, was founded at Cornell in 1906. Alpha Zeta fraternity, the first Greek-lettered organization established for Latin Americans in the United States, was also founded at Cornell on 1 January 1890. Alpha Zeta served the wealthy international Latin American students that came to the United States to study. This organization led a movement of fraternities that catered to international Latin American students that was active from 1890 to 1975. On 19 February 1982, La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity was established; it would eventually become the only Latino based fraternity in the nation with chapters at every Ivy League institution. Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi sorority was established on 16 April 1988, making the organization the first Latina-Based, and not Latina-exclusive, sorority founded at an ivy-league institution.

Cornell's connection to national Greek life is strong and longstanding. Many chapters are among the oldest of their respective national organizations, as evidenced by the proliferation of Alpha-series chapters. The chapter house of Alpha Delta Phi constructed in 1877 is believed to be the first house built in America solely for fraternity use, and the chapter's current home was designed by John Russell Pope. Philanthropy opportunities are used to encourage community relations, for example, during the 2004–05 academic year, the Greek system contributed 21,668 community service and advocacy hours and raised $176,547 in charitable contributions from its philanthropic efforts. Generally, discipline is managed internally by the inter-Greek governing boards. As with all student, faculty or staff misconduct, more serious cases are reviewed by the Judicial Administrator, who administers Cornell's justice system.

Press and radio

Further information: Cornell Chronicle, The Cornell Daily Sun, The Cornell Lunatic, The Cornell Review, and WVBR-FM

The Cornell student body produces several works by way of print and radio. Student-run newspapers include The Cornell Daily Sun, an independent daily, and The Cornell Review, a conservative newspaper published fortnightly.

Other press outlets include The Cornell Lunatic, a campus humor magazine, the Cornell Chronicle, the university's newspaper of record, and Kitsch Magazine, a feature magazine co-published with Ithaca College. The Cornellian is an independent student organization that organizes, arranges, produces, edits, and publishes the yearbook of the same name; it is composed of artistic photos of the campus, student life, and athletics, and the standard senior portraits. It carries the Silver Crown Award for Journalism and a Benjamin Franklin Award for Print Design, the only Ivy League yearbook with such a distinction. Cornellians are represented over the radio waves on WVBR-FM, an independent commercial FM radio station owned and operated by Cornell students. Other student groups also operate internet streaming audio sites.

Housing

Further information: Cornell North Campus and Cornell West Campus
Risley Residential College on Cornell North Campus
One of several footbridges that span Cornell's gorges and ease commuting from housing to the various on-campus academic buildings

University housing is broadly divided into three sections: North Campus, West Campus, and Collegetown. Beginning in 1971, Cornell began experiments with co-ed dormitories and continued the tradition of residential advisors (RAs) within the campus system. Beginning in the 1990s, new students were largely assigned to the historic Baker and Boldt Hall complexes on West Campus. Since a 1997 residential initiative, West Campus houses transfer and returning students, and North Campus is mostly populated by freshmen, sophomores, and sorority and fraternity houses. Prior to 2022, North Campus residents were overwhelmingly freshman, but the completion of the North Campus Residential Expansion provided housing for 800 sophomores in Toni Morrison Hall and Ganędagǫ Hall.

Options for living on North Campus for upperclassmen include program houses and co-op houses. Program houses include Risley Residential College, Just About Music, the Ecology House, Holland International Living Center, the Multicultural Living Learning Unit, the Latino Living Center, Akwe:kon, and Ujamaa. The co-op houses on North are The Prospect of Whitby, Triphammer Cooperative, Wait Avenue Cooperative, Wari Cooperative, and Wait Terrace. On West Campus, there are three university-affiliated cooperatives, 660 Stewart Cooperative, Von Cramm Hall, Watermargin, and one independent cooperative, Cayuga Lodge. In an attempt to create a sense of community and an atmosphere of education outside the classroom and continue Andrew Dickson White's vision, a $250 million reconstruction of West Campus created residential colleges there for undergraduates. The idea of building a house system can be attributed in part to the success of Risley Residential College, the oldest continually operating residential college at Cornell. In 2018, Cornell announced its North Campus Residential Expansion project, which was completed in Fall 2022. The university added 2,000 beds on North Campus through five new dorms and a dining hall. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, Hu Shih Hall, and Barbara McClintock Hall are located on the east end of North Campus and are exclusively for freshmen. Sophomores have the option to live in Toni Morrison Hall or Ganędagǫ Hall, which are located on the west end of North Campus.

Schuyler House, which was formerly a part of Sage Infirmary, has a dorm layout. Maplewood Apartments, Hasbrouck Apartments, and Thurston Court Apartments are apartment-style, some even allowing for family living. Off campus, many single-family houses in the East Hill neighborhoods adjacent to the university have been converted to apartments. Private developers have also built several multi-story apartment complexes in the Collegetown neighborhood. Nine percent of undergraduate students reside in fraternity and sorority houses, although first semester freshmen are not permitted to join them. Cornell's Greek system has 67 chapters and over 54 Greek residences that house approximately 1,500 students. About 42% of Greek members live in their houses. Housing cooperatives or other independent living units exist, including Telluride House, the Center for Jewish Living, Phillips House (located on North Campus, 1975 all women; 2016, all men), and Center for World Community (international community, off campus, formed by Annabel Taylor Hall, 1972, mixed gender). The cooperative houses on North include The Prospect of Whitby, Triphammer Cooperative, Wait Avenue Cooperative, Wari Cooperative, and Wait Terrace. There also are cooperative housing options not owned by Cornell, including Gamma Alpha and Stewart Little.

As of 2023, Cornell's dining system was ranked second in the nation by The Princeton Review. The university has 29 on-campus dining locations, including 10 "All You Care to Eat" cafeterias. North Campus is home to three of these dining halls: Morrison Dining by Morrison Hall, North Star Dining Room in the Appel Commons, and Risley Dining in Risley Hall. West Campus houses 6 dining halls, 5 of which accompany the West Campus residential houses: Cook House Dining Room, Becker House Dining Room, Rose House Dining Room, Jansen's Dining Room at Hans Bethe House, and Keeton House Dining Room. Also located on West Campus is 104West!, a kosher/multicultural dining room. Central Campus has Okenshields, a dining hall in Willard Straight Hall.

Various Cornell housing facilitiesBaker DormitoriesBalch HallHans Bethe HouseRisley Hall

Athletics

Main article: Cornell Big Red Further information: Cornell Big Red baseball, Cornell Big Red football, Cornell Big Red men's basketball, Cornell Big Red men's ice hockey, Cornell Big Red men's lacrosse, Cornell Big Red men's soccer, Cornell Big Red men's squash, Cornell Big Red women's basketball, Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey, and Cornell Big Red wrestling
Cornell football taking on Harvard at Harvard Stadium in October 2019

Cornell University's 35 varsity intercollegiate athletic teams are known as the Cornell Big Red. Cornell is an NCAA Division I institution and competes as a member of the Ivy League and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), the largest athletic conference in North America. Cornell's varsity athletic teams consistently challenge for NCAA Division I titles in a number of sports, including men's wrestling, men's lacrosse, men's ice hockey, and rowing. As an Ivy League member, Cornell is prohibited from offering athletic scholarships.

Cornell's football team had at least a share of the national championship four times before 1940 and has won the Ivy League championship three times, last in 1990.

In 2010, the men's basketball team appeared for the first time in the NCAA tournament's East Regional semifinals, known as the "Sweet 16." Cornell was the first Ivy League basketball team to make the semifinals since 1979.

Cornell Outdoor Education

Cornell runs one of the largest collegiate outdoor education programs in the country, serving over 20,000 people every year. The program runs over 130 different courses including but not limited to: Backpacking and Camping, Mountain Biking, Bike Touring, Caving, Hiking, Rock Climbing, Wilderness First Aid, and tree climbing. COE also oversees one of the largest student-run pre-freshman summer programs, known as Outdoor Odyssey. Most classes are often entirely taught by paid student instructors and courses count toward Cornell's physical education graduation requirement.

Cornell Outdoor Education includes the Lindseth Climbing Wall, which was renovated in 2016 and now includes 8,000 square feet of climbing surface up from 4,800 square feet previously.

Cornelliana

Main article: Cornelliana Further information: Dragon Day, Far Above Cayuga's Waters, Give My Regards to Davy, Slope Day, and Touchdown (mascot)
Started in 1901, Dragon Day is an annual tradition celebrating a feat by freshman architecture students to construct a colossal dragon that is paraded through the Ithaca campus.
The ivy-covered emblem of Ezra Cornell circumscribed by the university motto

Cornelliana is a term for Cornell's traditions, legends, and lore. Cornellian traditions include Slope Day, a celebration held on the last day of classes of the spring semester, and Dragon Day, which includes the parading of a dragon built by architecture students. Dragon Day is one of the school's oldest traditions and has been celebrated annually since 1901, historically on or near St. Patrick's Day. The dragon is built by the first-year architecture students in the week preceding the start of Spring Break. Taunting messages are left for the engineering students during the week leading into Dragon Day, with pranks, a "nerd walk," and even "green streak" (in which the students paint themselves green) often targeting engineers and their classes. On Dragon Day, the dragon is paraded around central campus by the first-year students, starting behind Rand Hall and moving through Cornell until eventually returning towards the Arts Quad. During the parade, the upper-year architecture students walk behind the dragon in various costumes, typically constructed by themselves for the event. Throughout much of its history, the dragon was then set afire upon its arrival to the arts quad, but that has since been discontinued due to environmental regulations.

According to legend, if a virgin crosses the Arts Quad at midnight, the statues of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White will walk off their pedestals, meet in the center of the Quad, and shake hands, congratulating themselves on the chastity of students. There is also another myth that if a couple crosses the suspension bridge on North Campus, and the young woman does not accept a kiss from her partner, the bridge will fall. If the kiss is accepted, the couple is assured a long future together.

The university is also host to various student pranks. On at least two different occasions, the university has awoken to find something odd atop the 173-foot (52.7 m) tall McGraw clock tower, once a 60-pound (27 kg) pumpkin and another time a disco ball. Because there is no access to the spire atop the tower, how the items were put in place remains a mystery. The colors of the lights on McGraw tower change to orange for Halloween and green for St. Patrick's Day. The clock tower also plays music.

The school colors are carnelian (a shade of red) and white, a play on "Cornellian" and Andrew Dickson White. A bear is commonly used as the unofficial mascot, which dates back to the introduction of the mascot "Touchdown" in 1915, a live bear who was brought onto the field during football games. The university's alma mater is "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," and its fight song is "Give My Regards to Davy." People associated with the university are called "Cornellians."

Health

Further information: Cornell gorge suicides

Cornell offers a variety of professional and peer counseling services to students. Formerly called Gannett Health Services until its name change in 2016, Cornell Health offers on-campus outpatient health services with emergency services and residential treatment provided by Cayuga Medical Center. For most of its history, Cornell provided residential medical care for sick students, including at the historic Sage Infirmary. Cornell offers specialized reproductive health and family planning services. The university also has a student-run Emergency Medical Service (EMS) agency. The squad provides emergency response to medical emergencies on the campus at Cornell and surrounding university-owned properties. Cornell EMS also provides stand-by service for university events and provides CPR, First Aid and other training seminars to the Cornell community.

The university received attention for a series of six student suicides by jumping into a gorge that occurred during the 2009–10 school year, and after the incidents added temporary fences to the bridges which span area gorges. In May 2013, Cornell indicated that it planned to set up nets, which will extend out 15 feet, on five of the university's bridges. Installation of the nets began in May 2013 and were completed over the summer of that year. There were cases of gorge-jumping in the 1970s and 1990s. Before this abnormal cluster of suicides, the suicide rate at Cornell had been similar to or below the suicide rates of other American universities, including a period between 2005 and 2008 in which no suicides occurred.

Campus police

Cornell University Police protect the campus and are classified as peace officers and have the same authority as the Ithaca city police. They are similar to the campus police at Ithaca College, Syracuse University, and University of Rochester because those campus police are classified as armed peace officers. The Cornell University Police are on campus and on-call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Their duties include: patrolling the university around the clock, responding to emergencies and non-emergency calls for service, crime prevention services, active investigation of crimes on campus, enforcement of state criminal and motor vehicle laws, and campus regulations.

Notable people

Further information: List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation

Cornell University has numerous notable faculty and alumni who have gone on to do noteworthy things. As of October 2024, Cornell faculty members, researchers, and alumni include 62 Nobel laureates.

Faculty

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Cornell University faculty.
Cornell University's 1916 faculty

As of 2023, Cornell University had 1,637 full-and part-time professional faculty members affiliated with its main campus, excluding faculty affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical Center, the university's medical school. Since its 1865 founding, many Cornell University's faculty have received global and national recognition across nearly all academic disciplines.

As of the 2005–06 academic year, Cornell faculty included three Nobel laureates, a Crafoord Prize winner, two Turing Award winners, a Fields Medal winner, two Legion of Honor recipients, a World Food Prize winner, an Andrei Sakharov Prize winner, three National Medal of Science winners, two Wolf Prize winners, five MacArthur award winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, a Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion recipient, 20 National Science Foundation career grant holders, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award, a recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, and three Packard Foundation grant holders.

Notable Cornell faculty have included Kurt Lewin, known as the "father of social psychology", who was a Cornell professor from 1933 to 1935. Norman Borlaug, considered the "father of the Green Revolution", taught at the university from 1982 to 1988, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and 49 honorary doctorates. Frances Perkins joined the Cornell faculty in 1952, where she served until her death in 1965, after serving as the first female member of the Cabinet of the United States, where she served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor; Perkins was a witness to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in her adolescence and, as Secretary of Labor, went on to champion the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the Social Security Act. Buckminster Fuller was a visiting professor at Cornell in 1952, and Henry Louis Gates, African American Studies scholar and subject of an arrest controversy and White House "Beer Summit," taught at Cornell from 1985 to 1989. Plant genetics pioneer Ray Wu invented the first method for sequencing DNA, considered a major breakthrough in genetics, since it enabled researchers to more closely understand how genes work. Emmy Award-winning actor John Cleese, known for his roles in Monty Python, James Bond, Harry Potter, and Shrek, has taught at Cornell since 1999. Charles Evans Hughes taught in the law school from 1893 to 1895 before becoming Governor of New York, United States Secretary of State, and Chief Justice of the United States. Georgios Papanikolaou, who taught at Cornell's medical school from 1913 to 1961, invented the Pap smear test for cervical cancer. Robert C. Baker ('43), widely credited for inventing the chicken nugget, taught at Cornell from 1957 to 1989. Carl Sagan, who narrated and co-wrote the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage and won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Dragons of Eden, was a professor at the university from 1968 to 1996. M. H. Abrams, founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, was a professor emeritus of English at Cornell. James L. Hoard, a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project and an expert in crystallography, was a professor emeritus of chemistry and taught from 1936 to 1971. Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian and European literature at Cornell between 1948 and 1959.

Notable current and former Cornell facultyHans Bethe
(A&S, 1934–2005),
theoretical physicist, Manhattan Project scientist, and 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics recipientHenry Louis Gates Jr.
(A&S, 1985–89),
literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmakerRichard Feynman
(A&S, 1945–52),
theoretical physicist, Manhattan Project scientist, and 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics recipientCharles Evans Hughes
(Law, 1893–95),
44th U.S. Secretary of State, and 11th Supreme Court Chief JusticeGeorgios Papanikolaou
(Medicine, 1913–61),
inventor of the Pap smear test for cervical cancerFrances Perkins
(ILR, 1952–65),
first female member of the Cabinet of the United StatesCarl Sagan
(A&S, 1968–96),
co-writer and narrator, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, and 1978 Pulitzer Prize recipient

Alumni

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Cornell University alumni.
The Cornell Club of New York in New York City, a focal point for alumni

As of 2024, Cornell University had over 250,000 living alumni, including 34 Marshall Scholars and 31 Rhodes Scholars. Cornell is the only university or college in the world with four female alumni, Pearl S. Buck, Barbara McClintock, Toni Morrison, and Claudia Goldin, who have won unshared Nobel Prizes. Many alumni maintain university ties through the annual homecoming reunion weekend each fall, through Cornell Magazine distributed to alumni, and through the Cornell Club of New York in Manhattan. In 2015, Cornell ranked fifth nationally among U.S. universities and colleges for gifts and bequests from alumni.

Cornell University alumni are noted for their accomplishments in public, professional, and corporate life. Cornell alumni include four heads of state, Lee Teng-hui, President of Taiwan from 1988 to 2000, Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan from 2016 to 2024, Mario García Menocal, the President of Cuba from 1913 to 1921, and Jamshid Amuzegar ('50), Prime Minister of Iran from 1977 to 1978.

Among senior U.S. government officials, Cornell alumni include Janet Reno ('60), the first female U.S. Attorney General, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg ('54), a former U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. Among foreign governments, Hu Shih (1914) was a Chinese reformer and ambassador of China to the U.S. and United Nations.

In academia, alumnus David Starr Jordan (1872) was founding president of Stanford University, and M. Carey Thomas (1877) was the second president and first female president of Bryn Mawr College.

In military service, Matt Urban ('41), a Medal of Honor recipient, holds the distinction as one of the most decorated soldiers in World War II.

In business, Cornellians include Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill ('55), Goldman Sachs Group chairman Stephen Friedman ('59), Kraft Foods CEO Irene Rosenfeld ('75, '77, '80), Autodesk CEO Carl Bass ('83), Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini ('84), S.C. Johnson & Son CEO Fisk Johnson ('79, '80, '82, '84, '86), Chevron Chairman Kenneth T. Derr ('59), Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse ('77), Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam ('76), MasterCard CEO Robert Selander ('72), Coors Brewing Company CEO Adolph Coors III ('37), Loews Corporation Chairman Andrew Tisch ('71), Burger King founder James McLamore ('47), Hotels.com founder David Litman ('79), PeopleSoft founder David Duffield ('62), Priceline.com founder Jay Walker ('77), Staples founder Myra Hart ('62), Qualcomm founder Irwin M. Jacobs ('56), Tata Group CEO Ratan Tata ('62),Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aimé, Johnson & Johnson worldwide chairman Sandi Peterson, Pawan Kumar Goenka, MD of Mahindra & Mahindra, and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham ('86).

In medicine, alumnus Robert Atkins ('55) developed the Atkins Diet, Henry Heimlich ('47) developed the Heimlich maneuver, Wilson Greatbatch ('50) invented the pacemaker, James Maas ('66; also a faculty member) coined the term power nap, C. Everett Koop ('41) served as Surgeon General of the United States, and Anthony Fauci served as Chief Medical Advisor to the President during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Among inventors, Cornellians include Thomas Midgley Jr. ('11), who invented Freon, Jon Rubinstein ('78), who is credited with the development of the iPod, and Robert Tappan Morris, who developed the first computer worm on the Internet.

In science, Bill Nye ('77) is known as "The Science Guy." Clarence W. Spicer invented the 'universal joint' for automobiles while a student in 1903.

Eight Cornellians have served as NASA astronauts. Steve Squyres ('81) is the principal investigator on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. In aerospace, Otto Glasser ('40) directed the U.S. Air Force program that developed the SM-65 Atlas, the world's first operational Intercontinental ballistic missile. Yolanda Shea is a research scientist in the Science Directorate at the Langley Research Center.

In literature, Toni Morrison (M.A.'50; Nobel laureate) authored the novel Beloved, Pearl S. Buck (M.A.'25; Nobel laureate) authored The Good Earth, and Thomas Pynchon ('59) wrote canonical works of post-World War II fiction, including Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49. Junot Díaz ('95) wrote The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and E. B. White (1921) authored Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little. Kurt Vonnegut, who attended but did not graduate, wrote extensively for The Cornell Daily Sun during his studies at Cornell and went on to author Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle. Lauren Weisberger ('99) wrote The Devil Wears Prada, which was later adapted into a 2006 film of the same name starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.

In media, Cornell alumni include liberal commentators Bill Maher ('78) and Keith Olbermann ('79) and conservative author Ann Coulter ('84).

In theatre and entertainment, Cornell alumni include actor Christopher Reeve ('74), who played Superman, Frank Morgan, who played the title role of The Wizard in the MGM movie The Wizard of Oz, and Peter Yarrow ('59) of the folk band Peter, Paul and Mary, who wrote the song Puff, the Magic Dragon, and other classic songs. Howard Hawks ('18) directed classic films, including Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), and Rio Bravo (1959).

In architecture, alumnus Richmond Shreve (1902) designed the Empire State Building, and Raymond M. Kennedy ('15) designed Hollywood's famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre. In the arts, Arthur Garfield Dove (1903) is often considered the first American abstract painter. Louise Lawler ('69) is a pioneering feminist artist, photographer, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In athletics, Cornell graduates include football legend Pop Warner (1894), head coach of the U.S. men's national soccer team Bruce Arena ('73), Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred ('80) National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman ('74), six-time Stanley Cup winning hockey goalie Ken Dryden ('69), tennis singles world # 2 Dick Savitt, seven-time US Tennis championships winner William Larned, Toronto Raptors president Bryan Colangelo ('87), and Kyle Dake, four-time NCAA division I college wrestling national champion.

Notable Cornell University alumniAnthony Fauci
(M.D. 1966),
former Chief Medical Advisor to the President during COVID-19 pandemicRuth Bader Ginsburg
(A.B. 1954),
former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme CourtTsai Ing-wen
(LL.M. 1980),
former President of the Republic of ChinaMario García Menocal
(B.S. 1888),
former President of CubaBill Nye
(B.S. 1977),
, known as "The Science Guy"Christopher Reeve
(BA, BFA 1974),
actor, SupermanPop Warner
(J.D. 1894),
football pioneerE. B. White
(A.B. 1921),
author, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little

See also

Notes

  1. The others are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tuskegee University.
  2. The university's charter was amended on 24 April 1867, to specify alumni-elected trustees; however, that provision was not implemented until there were at least 100 alumni in 1872. Also in 1865, the election of the Harvard University Board of Overseers was shifted to alumni voting.
  3. Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  4. The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  5. The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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