Cornell University

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Cornell University was founded on April 27, 1865, by Ezra Cornell, an entrepreneur and New York State Senator, and Andrew Dickson White, an educator and fellow state senator. The university was established as New York's land-grant institution following authorization by the New York State Legislature.{{cite report |chapter=Chapter 585: An act to establish the Cornell University ... |title=Laws of New York |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 April 27, 1865. Ezra Cornell provided his farm in Ithaca, New York, as the initial campus site and contributed $500,000 as an initial endowment ({{Inflation|US|500000|1863|fmt=eq|r=-3}}). White agreed to serve as the university’s first president.

White oversaw the university's early development, including the construction of its first two buildings, and traveled to recruit students and faculty.{{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=Ithaca, NY |isbn=978-0-8014-9058-3 |url=http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/184 |access-date=June 17, 2006 }} The university was formally inaugurated on October 7, 1868, with 412 male students enrolling the following day.{{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=January 2, 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=January 18, 2012 }}

Cornell developed as a technologically innovative institution, incorporating academic research into campus infrastructure and outreach efforts. In 1883, it became one of the first electrified universities, employing a water-powered dynamo to light parts of the campus.{{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=November 24, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704140529/http://www.utilities.cornell.edu/utl_heatinghistory.html |archive-date=July 4, 2007 }} Since 1894, the university has incorporated state-funded colleges that fulfill statutory requirements, and it administers research and extension programs jointly funded by New York State and the U.S. federal government.{{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 }}{{cite web |title=About Us |publisher=Cornell University Cooperative Extension |url=http://www.cce.cornell.edu/learnAbout/Pages/About.aspx |access-date=March 25, 2014 }} In 1872, Cornell became one of the first universities in the United States to allow alumni-elected trustees on its board.{{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=[https://archive.org/details/cornelluniversi00willgoog/page/n356 278] |access-date=December 14, 2010 }}

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Cornell was home to literary societies that promoted writing, reading, and oratory skills. The U.S. Bureau of Education classified several of these societies as following the traditions of literary organizations at Eastern universities.{{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 }}

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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.{{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 }}

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.{{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 }}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.

{{Further|Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar|Cornell Tech}}

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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.{{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 }} The university also developed partnerships with academic institutions in India, the People's Republic of China, and Singapore.{{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=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/07/cornell-president-joins-indian-prime-minister-open-new-chapter-science-education }}{{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 }}{{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 }}

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.{{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=The Cornell Daily Sun |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 }}{{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 }}{{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 }}

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.{{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 }} In 2005, Jeffrey S. Lehman, a former president of Cornell, described the university and its high international profile as a "transnational university".{{cite news |last=Jaschik |first=Scott |date=13 June 2005 |title=Sudden departure at Cornell |journal=Inside Higher Education |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/06/13/cornell |access-date=25 July 2013 }}

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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 {{cvt|745|acres}} since its founding, now including multiple academic buildings, laboratories, administrative facilities, athletic centers, auditoriums, museums, and residential areas.{{cite news |access-date=23 August 2023 |title=Cornell University |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/cornell-university-2711 |work=US News }}{{cite web |url=http://www.cornell.edu/visiting/ithaca |title=Cornell University – The Ithaca Campus |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=6 April 2006 }} 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.{{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 }}

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.{{cite book |first=Daniel |last=Margulis |author2=Schroeder, John |title=A Century at Cornell |publisher=The Cornell Daily Sun |location=Ithaca, N.Y. |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-938304-00-5 |pages=110–111 }}

Several Cornell University buildings have been named National Historic Landmarks,{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{NRISref|2008a }}

{{Main|Cornell Central Campus|Cornell North Campus|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.{{cite book |first=Kermit C. |last=Parsons |title=The Cornell Campus: A History of its Planning and Development |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca, N.Y. |year=1968 |chapter=Chp. 3: A Quadrangle of Stone }}

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.{{Cite web |url=https://living.cornell.edu/live/wheretolive/residencehalls/ |title=Residence Halls |website=living.cornell.edu |access-date=18 December 2018 }} 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."{{Cite web |url=https://westcampushousesystem.cornell.edu/ |title=West Campus House System |website=westcampushousesystem.cornell.edu |access-date=18 December 2018 }}

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{{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 }}{{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 }} are surrounded by a variety of apartment buildings, eateries, and businesses.{{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 }}

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.{{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 }} Adjacent to the main campus, Cornell owns the 2,800-acre (1,100 ha) Cornell Botanic Gardens, which features various plants, trees, and ponds.{{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 }}

{{Further|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,{{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 }} an on-campus hydroelectric plant,{{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 }} and a lake source cooling system.{{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 }} In 2007, Cornell established a Center for a Sustainable Future{{cite web |url=http://www.sustainablefuture.cornell.edu/about/ |title=About the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future |access-date=14 December 2010 }} 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.{{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 }}

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

In 2023, Cornell was the first university in the nation to commit to Kyoto Protocol emission reductions.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}{{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 }}

{{Main|Weill Cornell Medicine}}

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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.{{cite web |url=http://www.med.cornell.edu/about |series=Weill Medical College |title=About us |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=4 July 2006 }} While Cornell's medical school maintains its own faculty and academic divisions, it shares administrative and teaching hospital functions with Columbia University Medical Center.{{cite web |title=About us |department=Careers / locations |publisher=New York-Presbyterian Hospital |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 }} In addition to NewYork-Presbyterian, Cornell's teaching hospitals include Payne Whitney Clinic in Manhattan and its Westchester Division in White Plains, New York.{{cite web |url=http://nyp.org/services/psychiatry.html |title=Psychiatry and Mental Health |publisher=New York-Presbyterian Hospital |access-date=22 September 2010 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.med.cornell.edu/mdphd/ |title=Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering | Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program |publisher=Med.cornell.edu |access-date=7 October 2011 }} From 1942 to 1979, the Weill Cornell Medical campus also housed the Cornell School of Nursing.{{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 }}

{{Main|Cornell Tech}}

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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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

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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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://manhattan.orie.cornell.edu |title=Operations Research Manhattan |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=16 December 2010 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

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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.{{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 }}

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.{{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 }} The medical center is housed in a large two-story structure designed by Arata Isozaki, a Japanese architect.{{cite web |url=http://www.cornell.edu/academics/colleges.cfm |title=Colleges, Schools, and Faculties |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 May 2006 }} 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.

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

{{Further|Cornell Lab of Ornithology|New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University}}

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Cornell's off-campus research facilities include Shoals Marine Laboratory, a seasonal marine field station on Appledore Island off the Maine–New Hampshire coast, which is operated in conjunction with the University of New Hampshire and focuses on undergraduate education and research.{{cite web |url=http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_welcome_mission.html |title=Welcome – Our Mission |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }} Until 2011, Cornell operated Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which was the site of the world's largest single-dish radio telescope.{{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 }}

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,{{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 }} the Hudson Valley Laboratory in Highland,{{cite web |url=http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/hudson/index.php |title=Hudson Valley Research Laboratory |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }} and the Long Island Horticultural Research Laboratory in Riverhead on Long Island.{{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 }} The Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca conducts research on biological diversity in birds.{{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 }}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/facilities.html |title=Facilities – Department of Animal Science |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=14 December 2010 }}{{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 }}{{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 |archive-date=21 February 2006 }}{{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 }}{{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 }}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ciw.cornell.edu |title=Cornell in Washington |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 May 2006 }} The Cornell in Rome program allows students to study architecture, urban studies, and the arts in Rome, Italy.{{cite web |url=http://www.rome.cornell.edu |title=Cornell in Rome |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=22 May 2006 }} 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.{{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 }}

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.{{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 }} The university operates New York's Animal Health Diagnostic Center, which conducts animal disease control and husbandry.{{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 }}

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{{cite web |url=https://ecornell.cornell.edu/about-ecornell/ |title=About eCornell |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=23 September 2009 }} and participates in New York's land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant programs.{{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 }}{{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 }}

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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.{{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 }}

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,{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}New York State Education Law §5703. From 2014 to 2022, Robert Harrison served as chairman of the board. He was succeeded by Kraig Kayser.{{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 }} The Board of Trustees holds four regular meetings annually, which are subject to the New York State Open Meetings Law.{{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 }}

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

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.sce.cornell.edu |title=School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=2 June 2006 }}

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.{{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 }}{{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 }}{{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=Cornell University Law School |access-date=20 September 2010 }} 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.{{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 }}

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.

Philanthropy has played a central role in Cornell University’s growth, funding major academic programs, research initiatives, and campus development. As of 2024, the university’s endowment stands at $10.7 billion,{{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 }} making it the 14th-largest among U.S. universities. In 2018, Cornell raised $743 million in private donations, ranking third behind Harvard University and Stanford University.{{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 }}

Major single-donor contributions in recent decades have significantly shaped Cornell’s professional schools. In 1998, Weill Cornell Medicine was renamed after a $100 million gift from Sanford I. Weill, a 1955 alumnus and former Citibank CEO. By 2013, the Weills’ total donations exceeded $600 million.{{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 }} In 2017, Herbert Fisk Johnson III, an alumnus and chairman of S. C. Johnson & Son, donated $150 million to support the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, one of the largest gifts to a business school.{{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 }}

Cornell Tech, the university’s technology-focused graduate campus on Roosevelt Island, has received major philanthropic support. In 2011, Chuck Feeney, a 1956 alumnus and founder of DFS Group, became Cornell’s largest private donor, contributing $1 billion to fund the campus and other initiatives.{{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 }} In 2015, Irwin M. Jacobs, a 1956 alumnus and Qualcomm founder, and his wife, Joan, donated $133 million to establish the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.{{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 }}

Other major gifts have supported research and sustainability efforts. In 2010, David and Patricia Atkinson donated $80 million to establish the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, funding research on environmental and sustainability challenges.{{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 }}

Cornell is a large and primarily residential research university, and a majority of its students are enrolled in undergraduate programs.{{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}} }} Since 1921, the university has been accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and its predecessor.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

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

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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.{{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}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Profile2021-first-year.pdf |title=Profile: Class of 2025}}

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.{{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 }} The university practices need-blind admission for U.S. applicants.{{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}}

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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.{{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=United States Department of Education / 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.}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000030.pdf |publisher=Cornell University |title=2005–06 Financial Plan |page=5 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/WhatIsIvy/compliance.asp |publisher=Ivy League |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}} 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.{{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}}

In 2008, Cornell introduced a financial aid initiative, which incrementally replaced need-based loans with scholarships for undergraduate students from lower-income families.{{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}} Despite a 27% drop in the university's endowment in 2008, attributable partly to the 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.{{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}} 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.{{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}}

{{Further|Cornell University Southeast Asia Program|Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar}}

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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. Students have the opportunity to study abroad on any of the six continents through various programs.{{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}}

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.{{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}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/aboutUs/purposeMission.html |title=Purpose and Mission |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=16 September 2010}} 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.{{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}}

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,{{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}} the University of the Philippines Los Baños,{{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}} and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.{{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}}

{{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 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,{{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}} 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.{{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}}

{{Infobox US university ranking

| USNWR_NU = 11 (tie)

| THE_WSJ = 27

| Forbes = 10

| Wamo_NU = 8

| QS_W = 16

| THES_W = 20

| USNWR_W = 19 (tie)

| ARWU_W = 12 (tie)

}}

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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.{{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 }}{{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 }} 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.{{cite magazine |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023-college-guide/national-1/ |title=2023 National Universities Rankings |magazine=Washington Monthly |access-date=18 September 2023 }}

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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}{{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 }}

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.{{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 }} 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,{{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 }} fourth-best in the nation for investment banking,{{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 }} and sixth-best globally for salary.{{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 }} The Johnson School of Management was ranked 11th-best nationally by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2019,{{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 }} and 11th-best nationally and 14th-best globally by The Economist.{{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 }} In 2013, the Johnson school was ranked second-best for sustainability by Bloomberg Businessweek.{{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 }}

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.{{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 }}{{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 }} In 2015, Cornell was ranked third-best among all New York colleges and universities for professor salaries.{{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 }}

{{Main|Cornell University Library}}

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As of 2020, Cornell University Library, with over 10 million holdings, is the 13th-largest academic library in the United States.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/rankings.asp?listing=1023589<id=1&intbucketid= |title=The Best 361 Colleges Rankings |work=The Princeton Review |access-date=23 May 2006 }} Three years later, in 2009, it climbed to sixth-best.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

{{Main|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.{{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=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcornell00bish_0/page/127 127] }}{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

{{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 Administrative Science Quarterly,{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.

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Cornell University is a prominent research institution, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity."{{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 }} The National Science Foundation ranked Cornell 14th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2021 with $1.18 billion.{{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 }}{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

{{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, 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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

Cornell has been involved in uncrewed missions to Mars since 1962{{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 }} and played a vital role in the Mars Exploration Rover Mission in the 21st century.{{cite magazine |title=Father of Spirit and Opportunity |magazine=Scientific American |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 }} The university's researchers discovered the rings around the planet Uranus{{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 }} and operated the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico until 2011. This observatory housed the world's largest single-dish radio telescope at the time.{{cite web |title=Home Page |website=Arecibo Observatory |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 }}

The Automotive Crash Injury Research Center, founded in 1952, was a pioneering effort in crash testing and significantly improved vehicle safety standards.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

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.{{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 }}{{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 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.physics.cornell.edu/research/accelerator-physics/ |title=Accelerator Physics |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=17 September 2010 }}

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.{{Cite web |url=https://philosophy.cornell.edu/history |title=History of the Sage School | Sage School of Philosophy |website=philosophy.cornell.edu }} 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,{{Cite web |url=https://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/theory-of-value/ |title=Theory of Value 2021 – The Philosophical Gourmet Report }} that is their focus on moral psychology, metaethics, applied ethics, philosophy of law, social philosophy and history of philosophy{{Cite web |url=https://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/history-of-philosophy/ |title=History of Philosophy 2021 – The Philosophical Gourmet Report }} 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.

{{Further|Cornell Catholic Community|Cornell University Glee Club|Quill and Dagger|Sphinx Head|Telluride House|The Chordials}}

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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.{{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 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.collegemocktrial.org/ |title=Cornell Mock Trial |publisher=American Mock Trial Association |access-date=31 October 2018 }} The Cornell International Affairs Society's traveling Model United Nations team was ranked 16th in the nation as of 2010.{{cite web |url=https://www.thecias.org/ |title=Cornell International Affairs Society |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=26 July 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,{{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 }} concert bands,{{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 }} formal and informal choral groups,{{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 }} including the Glee Club, the Chordials{{Cite web |url=http://chordials.com/ |title=Co-ed A Cappella |website=The Chordials |language=en-US |access-date=18 December 2018 }} 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.{{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 |archive-date=30 August 2006 }}

Organized in 1868, the oldest Cornell student organization is the Cornell University Glee Club.{{cite web |url=http://www.gleeclub.com/ |title=Cornell University Glee Club |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=16 September 2010 }} 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,{{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 }} Der Hexenkreis, and Quill and Dagger{{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 }}{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}{{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 }}

{{main|List of Cornell University fraternities and sororities}}

Cornell hosts a large{{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 }}{{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 }}{{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 }}{{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 }}{{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 }} fraternity and sorority system, with 70 chapters involving 33% of male and 24% of female undergraduates.{{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 }}{{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 }}{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek organization established for African Americans, was founded at Cornell in 1906.{{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 }}{{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 }} 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.{{Cite journal |last=Fajardo |first=Oliver |year=2015 |title=A brief history of international Latin American student fraternities – a movement that lasted 86 years (1889–1975) |journal=Journal of Hispanic Higher Education |volume=14 |pages=69–81 |s2cid=146728641 |doi=10.1177/1538192714548928 }} On 19 February 1982, La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity was established;{{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 }} it would eventually become the only Latino based fraternity in the nation with chapters at every Ivy League institution.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

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.{{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 }} 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|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 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.{{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 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://wvbr.com/info |title=About Us & Station History |publisher=WVBR-FM |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 }}

{{Further|Cornell North Campus|Cornell West Campus}}

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Cornell University's residential system is divided into North Campus, West Campus, and Collegetown. The university introduced coeducational dormitories in 1971 and has maintained a system of residential advisors (RAs) to support students. Historically, freshmen were assigned to West Campus, particularly Baker and Boldt Halls. However, a 1997 residential initiative restructured the system, designating West Campus for upper-level students while North Campus became the primary residential area for freshmen and some sophomores.{{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 }} In 2022, the North Campus Residential Expansion added housing for 800 sophomores, marking a shift from its previous role as predominantly first-year housing..{{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 }}

West Campus serves upper-level undergraduates and incorporates a residential college system designed to foster academic and social engagement outside the classroom. This system, developed through a $250 million reconstruction project,{{cite news |url=http://cornellsun.com/node/22275 |title=Housing initiative to finish two years early |newspaper=The Cornell Daily Sun |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 }} was influenced in part by Risley Residential College, Cornell’s oldest continuously operating residential college.{{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 }} Beyond North and West Campus, Cornell offers additional housing options. Schuyler House, a former part of Sage Infirmary, now functions as a residence hall.{{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 }}

Cornell’s Greek system provides another housing option, with approximately nine percent of undergraduate students living in fraternity and sorority houses. While first-semester freshmen are not eligible for membership, the university hosts 67 Greek chapters, many of which maintain residential facilities. Additionally, independent housing options exist, such as the student-run Telluride House, the Center for Jewish Living, and other cooperative residences that emphasize community-oriented living.

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{{As of|2025}}, The Princeton Review ranked Cornell’s dining program fifth in the nation.{{cite web |title=School Rankings – Best Campus Food |url=http://www.princetonreview.com/schoollist.aspx?type=r&id=683 |access-date=17 March 2025 |website=Princeton Review }} The university operates 29 dining facilities across campus, serving students in residential and academic areas.{{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 }}

On North Campus, dining options include a mix of large dining halls and smaller venues, with facilities such as Morrison Dining and North Star Dining at Appel Commons serving as primary locations for first-year students. Risley Residential College also houses a historic dining hall modeled on the great hall at Christ Church, Oxford.{{cite web|url=http://campuslife.cornell.edu/housing_residential/risley.asp|title=Living at Cornell|website=Campuslife.cornell.edu|access-date=17 October 2017}}

West Campus follows a residential college model, where each house features its own dining hall, creating a more intimate and community-oriented dining experience. Additionally, 104West! provides specialized kosher and multicultural meal options for students with specific dietary needs.

In Central Campus, Willard Straight Hall is home to Okenshields, a dining facility that caters to students and faculty in the academic core of the university. Beyond the main dining halls, Cornell offers various cafés, eateries, and grab-and-go options throughout campus to accommodate a range of dietary preferences and schedules.

{{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}}

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Cornell University's 35 varsity intercollegiate athletic teams are known as the Cornell Big Red.{{cite web |url=https://cornellbigred.com/ |title=Headlines |website=cornellbigred.com |access-date=27 September 2021 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ecac.org/about.asp |title=About ECAC |publisher=Eastern College Athletic Conference |access-date=15 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060613055114/http://ecac.org/about.asp |archive-date=13 June 2006 }} 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.{{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 }}

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

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.{{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 16 |periodical=Cornell Chronicle |publisher=Cornell University News Service |language=en |access-date=18 March 2018 }}

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.{{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 }} COE also oversees one of the largest student-run pre-freshman summer programs, known as Outdoor Odyssey.{{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 }} Most classes are often entirely taught by paid student instructors and courses count toward Cornell's physical education graduation requirement.{{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 }}

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.{{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 }}

{{Main|Cornelliana}}

{{Further|Dragon Day|Far Above Cayuga's Waters|Give My Regards to Davy|Slope Day|Touchdown (mascot)}}

File:Dragon Day 2016 Dragon.jpg is an annual tradition celebrating a feat by freshman architecture students to construct a colossal dragon that is paraded through the Ithaca campus.]]

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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.{{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 |archive-date=9 September 2006 }}{{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 }}{{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 }}

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.{{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 }}

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.{{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 }} The colors of the lights on McGraw tower change to orange for Halloween and green for St. Patrick's Day.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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."

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Cornell offers a variety of professional and peer counseling services to students.{{cite web |url=http://www.gannett.cornell.edu/services/counseling/index.cfm |title=Counseling and Support |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=18 September 2010 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.gannett.cornell.edu/services/medical/index.cfm |title=Medical Care |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=18 September 2010 }} For most of its history, Cornell provided residential medical care for sick students, including at the historic Sage Infirmary.{{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 }} Cornell offers specialized reproductive health and family planning services.{{cite web |url=http://www.gannett.cornell.edu/topics/sexual/index.cfm |title=Gannett Sexual Health |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=26 November 2010 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://cuems.cornell.edu/squad_info/ |title=About CUEMS |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=29 December 2013 }}

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.{{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 }} 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.{{cite news |title=Cornell Suicides: Nets To Cover Gorges Around School's Campus |newspaper=HuffPost |date=20 August 2012 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/cornell-suicides-nets-to-_n_1810130.html |access-date=24 October 2014 }} 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.{{cite news |last=Fishman |first=Rob |title=Cornell Suicides: Do Ithaca's Gorges Invite Jumpers? |newspaper=HuffPost |date=16 December 2010 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-fishman/the-gorges-of-cornell-uni_b_498656.html |access-date=16 October 2014 }} 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.{{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=CNN |date=22 March 2010 }}{{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=The New York Times |date=16 March 2010 |first=Trip |last=Gabriel }}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.cupolice.cornell.edu/ |title=Cornell University Police |website=cupolice.cornell.edu |access-date=18 January 2017 }}

===Alumni===

{{Main list|List of Cornell University alumni}}

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As of 2024, Cornell University had over 250,000 living alumni,{{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 }} 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.{{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=The Cornell Daily Sun |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 }} Many alumni maintain university ties through the annual homecoming reunion weekend each fall, through Cornell Magazine distributed to alumni,{{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 }} 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.{{cite magazine |author=Mulhere, Kaitlin |date=27 January 2016 |title=These 20 colleges raked in the biggest donations last year {{grey|[2015]}} |department=Money / College planner |magazine=Time |url=http://time.com/money/4195204/2015-donations-colleges-universities/ |url-status=dead |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 }}

Cornell University alumni are noted for their accomplishments in public, professional, and corporate life.{{cite book |author1=Altschuler, Glenn C. |author2=Kramnick, Isaac |author3=Moore, R. Laurence |year=2003 |title=The 100 most notable Cornellians |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca, N.Y. |isbn=978-0-8014-3958-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/100mostnotableco00glen }} Cornell alumni include four heads of state, Lee Teng-hui, President of Taiwan from 1988 to 2000,{{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 }} Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan from 2016 to 2024,{{cite news |title=Cornell graduate Tsai Ing-wen just did the uUnthinkable in Taiwan |website=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/cornell-graduate-tsai-ing-wen-just-did-unthinkable-taiwan-n498746 |access-date=18 January 2016 }} Mario García Menocal, the President of Cuba from 1913 to 1921,{{cite web |title=Mario García Menocal |website=Latin American Studies.org |url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/menocal-bio.htm |access-date=19 July 2010 }} and Jamshid Amuzegar ('50), Prime Minister of Iran from 1977 to 1978.{{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 }}

Among senior U.S. government officials, Cornell alumni include Janet Reno ('60), the first female U.S. Attorney General,{{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 }} and Ruth Bader Ginsburg ('54), a former U.S. Supreme Court associate justice.{{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=[https://archive.org/details/ruthbaderginsbur00bred/page/22 22] }} Among foreign governments, Hu Shih (1914) was a Chinese reformer and ambassador of China to the U.S. and United Nations.{{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 }}

In academia, alumnus David Starr Jordan (1872) was founding president of Stanford University,{{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=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcornell00bish_0/page/122 122] }} and M. Carey Thomas (1877) was the second president and first female president of Bryn Mawr College.{{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 }}

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.{{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 }}

In business, Cornellians include Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill ('55),{{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=Three Rivers Press |pages=41, 42 }}{{rp|style=ama|p=42}} Goldman Sachs Group chairman Stephen Friedman ('59),{{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 }} Kraft Foods CEO Irene Rosenfeld ('75, '77, '80),{{cite web |title=Irene Rosenfeld bio |url=http://www.kraftfoodscompany.com/about/profile/irene-rosenfeld-bio.htm |publisher=Kraft Foods |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 }} Autodesk CEO Carl Bass ('83),{{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 }} Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini ('84),{{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 }} S.C. Johnson & Son CEO Fisk Johnson ('79, '80, '82, '84, '86),{{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=S. C. Johnson & Son |access-date=1 September 2009 }} Chevron Chairman Kenneth T. Derr ('59),{{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 }} Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse ('77),{{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 }} Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam ('76),{{cite magazine |title=Lowell McAdam: Executive profile & biography |magazine=Bloomberg Business Week |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 }} MasterCard CEO Robert Selander ('72),{{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 }} Coors Brewing Company CEO Adolph Coors III ('37),{{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=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcornell00bish_0/page/509 509] }} Loews Corporation Chairman Andrew Tisch ('71),{{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 }} Burger King founder James McLamore ('47),{{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 }} Hotels.com founder David Litman ('79),{{cite web |title=David S. Litman |publisher=Cornell University |url=http://classof79.alumni.cornell.edu/Classmates/25th/Litman.html |access-date=25 August 2010 }} PeopleSoft founder David Duffield ('62),{{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 }} Priceline.com founder Jay Walker ('77),{{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 }} Staples founder Myra Hart ('62),{{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 }} Qualcomm founder Irwin M. Jacobs ('56),{{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 }} Tata Group CEO Ratan Tata ('62),{{cite news |title=Ratan Tata |work=The Tribune Trust |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100818/main6.htm |access-date=25 August 2010 }}Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aimé,{{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 }} Johnson & Johnson worldwide chairman Sandi Peterson,{{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 }} Pawan Kumar Goenka, MD of Mahindra & Mahindra, and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham ('86).

In medicine, alumnus Robert Atkins ('55) developed the Atkins Diet,{{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=[https://archive.org/details/dratkinsquickeas00atki/page/217 217] |isbn=9780743260008 }} Henry Heimlich ('47) developed the Heimlich maneuver,{{cite magazine |author=Vaccariello, Linda |title=The Heimlich Maneuvers |magazine=Cincinnati |volume=39 |issue=3 |date=December 2005 |page=154 }} Wilson Greatbatch ('50) invented the pacemaker,{{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 }} James Maas ('66; also a faculty member) coined the term power nap,{{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 }} C. Everett Koop ('41) served as Surgeon General of the United States,{{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=[https://archive.org/details/healthcarereform0000kron/page/98 98] |isbn=9781576079782 }} and Anthony Fauci served as Chief Medical Advisor to the President during the COVID-19 pandemic.{{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 }}{{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 }}{{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 }}

Among inventors, Cornellians include Thomas Midgley Jr. ('11), who invented Freon,{{cite book |author=Wei, James |year=2007 |title=Product Engineering: Molecular structure and properties |location=New York |publisher=Oxford U Press |page=6 }} Jon Rubinstein ('78), who is credited with the development of the iPod,{{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 }} and Robert Tappan Morris, who developed the first computer worm on the Internet.

In science, Bill Nye ('77) is known as "The Science Guy."{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

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,{{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 }} 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,{{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 }} and E. B. White (1921) authored Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.{{cite book |author=Elledge, Scott |title=E.B. White: A biography |place=New York |publisher=W.W. Norton |year=1985 |page=64 }} 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){{cite book |author=Laufenberg, Norbert |title=Entertainment Celebrities |location=Victoria, Canada |publisher=Trafford |year=2005 |page=489 }} and conservative author Ann Coulter ('84).{{rp|style=ama|p=41}}

In theatre and entertainment, Cornell alumni include actor Christopher Reeve ('74), who played Superman,{{rp|style=ama|p=42}} 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,{{cite book |author=Aaseng, Nathan |year=2000 |title=Construction: Building the Impossible |place=Minneapolis, MN |publisher=Oliver Press |page=116 }} and Raymond M. Kennedy ('15) designed Hollywood's famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre.{{cite book |last=Bishop |first=Morris |year=1962 |title=A history of Cornell |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-0036-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcornell00bish_0/page/399 399] |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcornell00bish_0 |url-access=registration |access-date=14 December 2010 }} 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),{{cite book |author=Hart, James D. |title=A Companion to California |place=Los Angeles, CA |publisher=U of California Press |year=1987 |page=548 }} head coach of the U.S. men's national soccer team Bruce Arena ('73),{{cite web |title=Bruce Arena |series=Profile |website=SoccerTimes |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 }} Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred ('80){{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. }} National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman ('74),{{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 }} six-time Stanley Cup winning hockey goalie Ken Dryden ('69),{{cite magazine |author=Fischler, Stan |date=March 1972 |title=The NHL's 'stone-wall' goalie |magazine=Boys' Life |volume=62 |issue=3 |page=46 }} tennis singles world # 2 Dick Savitt,{{cite web |title=Dick Savitt – 2007 |series=Roster |website=cornellbigred.com |url=http://cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=6287}} seven-time US Tennis championships winner William Larned, Toronto Raptors president Bryan Colangelo ('87),{{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 }} and Kyle Dake, four-time NCAA division I college wrestling national champion.

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Cornell University has numerous notable faculty and alumni who have gone on to do noteworthy things. {{asof|October 2024|post=,}} Cornell faculty members, researchers, and alumni include 62 Nobel laureates.

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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 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.{{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 }} Norman Borlaug, considered the "father of the Green Revolution", taught at the university from 1982 to 1988,{{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 }} and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and 49 honorary doctorates.{{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 }} 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,{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} Georgios Papanikolaou, who taught at Cornell's medical school from 1913 to 1961, invented the Pap smear test for cervical cancer.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} M. H. Abrams, founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, was a professor emeritus of English at Cornell.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian and European literature at Cornell between 1948 and 1959.{{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 }}

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