2 Academic units

Cornell is a private institution, receiving most of its funding through tuition, research grants, and alumni contributions. Three of its undergraduate colleges as well as the graduate veterinary school, called statutory colleges, also receive partial funding from the state of New York to support their research and service mission in niche fields.

Cornell is highly decentralized; its colleges and schools have wide autonomy. Each defines its own academic programs, organizes its own admissions and advising programs, and confers its own degrees; the only university-wide requirement for a baccalaureate degree is to pass a swimming test. Periodically, the university attempts to resolve naturally arising redundancies by creating special interschool units (see #Other_units below). While students may take courses offered by the division, their enrollment remains with their individual college or school.

Seven schools offer undergraduate programs. Students pursuing graduate degrees in departments of these schools are enrolled in the Cornell University Graduate School . In addition, there are six units offering graduate and professional programs.

2.1 Undergraduate colleges and schools

2.1.1 Endowed schools

• College of Art, Architecture and Planning
• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Engineering
• School of Hotel Administration

2.1.2 Statutory colleges

• New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
• New York State College of Human Ecology
• New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations

2.2 Graduate/Professional colleges and schools

All of Cornell's graduate and professional schools are endowed, except for the statutory veterinary school.

• Cornell Law School
• S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
• Weill Cornell Medical College (New York City)
• Weill Cornell Medical College (Qatar)
• Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (New York City)
• New York State College of Veterinary Medicine

2.3 Cornell University Library

The Cornell University Library consists of twenty units. It is one of the largest academic research libraries in the United States, with over 7 million volumes, 7 million microforms, 5,000 computer files, and some 76,000 sound recordings in its collections in addition to extensive digital resources and the University Archives. It was the first among all U.S. colleges and universities to allow undergraduates to borrow books from its libraries.

2.4 Cornell University Press

Cornell University Press, established 1869, was the first university publishing enterprise in the United States and is one of the country's largest university presses. It produces approximately 150 titles each year in various disciplines including anthropology, classics, cultural studies, history, literary criticism and theory, medieval studies, philosophy, politics and international relations, psychology and psychiatry, and women's studies.

2.5 Other units

• Cornell Cooperative Extension
• Division of Nutritional Sciences
• Faculty of Computing and Information Science
• Office of Undergraduate Biology
• School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions.

See also : CORC, Cornell Theory Center

3 University Presidents

President	Life	Tenure
Andrew Dickson White	1832–1918	1866–1885
Charles Kendall Adams	1856–1902	1885–1892
Jacob Gould Schurman	1854–1942	1892–1920
Livingston Farrand	1867–1939	1921–1937
Edmund Ezra Day	1883–1951	1937–1949
Deane Waldo Malott	1898–1996	1951–1963
James A. Perkins	1911–1998	1963–1969
Dale R. Corson	b. 1914	1969–1977
Frank H.T. Rhodes	b. 1926	1977–1995
Hunter R. Rawlings III	b. 1944	1995–2003
Jeffrey Sean Lehman	b. 1956	2003-

4 Student Life

Cornell is considered one of the most diverse campuses in the nation. There are more than 500 registered student organizations, running the interest gamut from kayaking to full-armor jousting, from gospel choirs and a capella groups like the Cayuga's Waiters, improvisational theatre and political clubs and publications. Cornell also boasts one of the largest fraternity and sorority systems in North America, with over 60 chapters involving up to a third of the student body.

The number of organizations is large, and can cater to any interests and tastes. University funding is very helpful in supporting the activities of organizations. However, the ability to socialize with numerous people of a particular interest does not necessarily breed inter-communication between groups. Criticism of this phenomenon in the numerous ethnic/religious based groups is acute.

Housing is divided into three sections: West Campus, Collegetown and North Campus. West Campus houses mostly transfer and returning students, whereas North Campus is almost entirely populated by freshmen. This is the result of President Hunter R. Rawlings III's North Campus Housing initative [1]. The only options for living on North Campus for upper classmen are the program houses, like the Holland International Living Center and Balch all-women dormitory.

Completion of the North Campus housing initiative in Fall 2001, which included the addition of two large dormitories, has created a disparity in non-program-non-co-op housing, resulting in 671 freshmen unable to find standard housing after their freshman year [2]. Apartments are available in the city and surrounding towns of Ithaca, which is actual area of the city located within walking distance of Cornell up the "East Hill" of Ithaca.

There is a residential college project under construction on West Campus, spearheaded by the completion of Alice H. Cook House in 2004. Completion of the five-"House" "residential college" campus will occur in 2010 [3]. The campus dining services have been rated as one of the top college dining services many times in recent years.

5 Athletics

Cornell has one of the most diverse varsity athletic programs in the country. It sponsors 36 varsity teams. An NCAA Division I institution, Cornell is a member of the Ivy League and also competes in Eastern College Athletic Conference, the largest athletic conference in North America. In addition, a wide variety of club sports teams have been organized as student organizations under the auspices of the Dean of Students.

Cornell's intramural program includes 30 sports. In addition to such familiar sports such as flag football, squash, or horseshoes , such unusual offerings as "inner tube water polo," and formerly "broomstick polo" have been offered, as well as a sports trivia competition.

6 Faculty

Cornell University has 1,550 full-time and part-time academic faculty members, and an additional 1,500 affiliated with its medical divisions. The 2002-03 Cornell faculty included 4 Nobel laureates, a Crafoord Prize winner, a Legion of Honor recipient, a World Food Prize winner, 4 National Medal of Science winners, a Wolf Prize winner, 4 MacArthur award winners, 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 6 winners of Alexander von Humboldt Awards, 5 Presidential Early Career Award holders, 25 National Science Foundation CAREER grant holders, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research, a recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award holder, 3 Packard Foundation grant holders, a Searle Scholar, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar, and a NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research) early career award winner.

Former professors include Carl Sagan, Norman Malcolm, Vladimir Nabokov, Hans Bethe, Clinton Rossiter , Richard Feynman, Bill Nye, John Cleese and Allan Bloom.

7 The campus

7.1 Main campus

Cornell's main campus is located in Ithaca, New York; Day Hall, the administration building, is located on East Avenue. The campus itself is situated on a rolling site of 745 acres (3 km²) on East Hill, overlooking Cayuga Lake and downtown Ithaca two miles (3 km) to the west. The 260 or so major buildings are mostly divided into quads for the Arts, Engineering, and Agriculture, a science lab complex, and the athletic complex.

Central campus is bounded to its north and south by spectacular limestone gorges and waterfalls. Dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and student centers are located on North Campus, north of Fall Creek Gorge, and on West Campus, at the bottom of the Library Slope ("Libe Slope"); after snowfalls, students students like to sled down the Slope on trays from the dining hall. East of the main campus lie the Cornell Plantations, approximately 3,600 acres (15 km²) encompassing an arboretum and botanical gardens as well as natural woodlands, trails, streams, and gorges. South of Cascadilla Gorge lies the student-oriented Collegetown business district.

The first building, Morrill Hall, was erected in 1868. Cornell's signature landmark is McGraw Tower, which rises 173 feet and 161 steps from the ground. Constructed in 1891 atop Uris Library, it features the Cornell Chimes, 21 bells on which the Cornell chimesmasters play three daily concerts.

Contrasting with the Gothic, Victorian, and Neo-Classical buildings on the Arts Quad is the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art , designed by I. M. Pei. Other notable buildings: Willard Straight Hall, one of the earliest student unions, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, the largest academic building in the eastern United States, and the Statler Hotel, adjacent to and associated with the School of Hotel Administration.

7.2 New York City campus

The New York Weill Cornell Medical Center is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It is home to the Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences , which are also affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Sloan-Kettering Institute, and the Columbia University Medical Center.

7.3 Other campuses

The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, operated by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is located in Geneva, New York, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the main campus. The facility now comprises 20 major buildings on 130 acres (0.5 km²) of land, as well as over 700 acres (2.8 km²) of test plots and other lands devoted to horticultural research. It also operates three substations, Vineyard Research Laboratory in Fredonia, Hudson Valley Laboratory in Highland and the Long Island Horticultural Research Laboratory in Riverhead.

The Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, located in Doha, is housed in a large two-story structure designed by Arata Isozaki .

The Shoals Marine Laboratory, a seasonal marine field station dedicated to undergraduate education and research operated in conjunction with the University of New Hampshire, is located on the 95 acre (0.4 km²) Appledore Island off the Maine–New Hampshire coast.

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, site of the world's largest radio telescope, is operated by Cornell.

Cornell University maintains facilities in Washington, DC and New York City for its Cornell in Washington, Urban Semester, and Urban Scholars Programs.

Other facilities include

• Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point in Bridgeport
• Punta Cana and EsBaran biodiversity field stations in the Dominican Republic and Peru
• Arnot Teaching and Research Forest natural resources center in Tompkins and Schuyler Counties.
• Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in Harford, and Duck Research Laboratory in Eastport, New York
• Offices of the New York Sea Grant, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and School of Industrial and Labor Relations Extension Service throughout New York State
• Offices for Cornell-administered study abroad programs such as the Cornell-Nepal Study Program and Cornell-in-Rome

8 Alumni of Note

8.1 Nobel laureates

• George W. Beadle (Ph.D. 1930) - Nobel laureate ( Physiology/Medicine 1958)
• Pearl S. Buck (M.A. 1926) - author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Good Earth, and Nobel Prize laureate (1938, literature).
• Robert Fogel (B.A. 1948) - Nobel laureate ( Economics 1993).
• Sheldon Lee Glashow (A.B. 1954) - Nobel laureate ( Physics 1979).
• Robert W. Holley (Ph.D. 1947) - Nobel laureate ( Physiology/Medicine 1968)
• Barbara McClintock (B.S. 1923, A.M. 1925, Ph.D. 1927) - Nobel laureate ( Physiology/Medicine 1983).
• Toni Morrison (A.M. 1955) - author and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate.
• Douglas D. Osheroff (M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1973) - Nobel laureate ( Physics 1996).
• Isidor Isaac Rabi (B.Chem. 1919) - Nobel laureate ( Physics 1944).
• Steven Weinberg (A.B. 1954) - Nobel laureate ( Physics 1979).

8.2 Government / Law / Public Policy

• Rob Andrews (J.D. 1982) - U.S. Representative from New Jersey's first congressional district.
• Sandy Berger (B.A. 1967) - National Security Advisor to Bill Clinton.
• Barber B. Conable (A.B. 1942, LL.B. 1948) - president of the World Bank from 1986 to 1991, Congressional Representative ( R- New York) for nine consecutive terms
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (A.B. 1954) - U.S. Supreme Court justice.
• Stephen Hadley (B.A. 1969) - National Security Advisor to George W. Bush.
• Hu Shih (B.A. 1914) - Chinese philosopher, poet, statesman; championed vernacular Chinese as a literary language.
• Lee Teng-hui (Ph.D. 1968) - President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
• Edmund Muskie (LL.B. 1939) - Maine governor; U.S. senator, presidential candidate, Secretary of State.
• Janet Reno (B.A. 1960) - United States Attorney General under Bill Clinton.
• William P. Rogers (LL.B. 1937) - United States Attorney General and Secretary of State.
• Paul Wolfowitz (A.B. 1965) - United States Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush.
• Stephen Friedman (A.B. 1959) - assistant for economic policy to President George W. Bush, and director of the National Economic Council.
• Jerome H. Holland (B.S. 1939, M.S. 1941) - businessman; president of Delaware State College (1953–60) and of Hampton Institute (1960–70); U.S. ambassador to Sweden (1970–73); national chairman of the American Red Cross (1979–85).

8.3 Business / Economics

• Dr. Ken Blanchard - management consultant, co-author "The One Minute Manager."
• Adolph Coors (A.B. 1907) - co-founder of the Coors beer brewing company.
• Joseph Coors (B.S. 1939) - co-founder of the Coors beer brewing company.
• Pete Coors (B.S. 1969) - Coors brewery executive and 2004 Senatorial Candidate.
• Dave Duffield - co-founder of PeopleSoft software company
• Dave Edgerton - co-founder of Burger King restaurant chain
• Francis Fukuyama (A.B) - political economist and philosopher.
• Frank E. Gannett (A.B. 1898) - founder of Gannett media company
• Claudia Goldin - noted economist.
• Austin Kiplinger (A.B. 1939) - journalist, editor of The Kiplinger Letter , founder of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, winner of the Peabody Award
• Jim McLamore - co-founder of Burger King restaurant chain.
• Tom Peters (B.C.E. 1965, M.E.C. 1966) - Business management motivational guru
• Charles E. Sporck - CEO of National Semiconductor.
• Sanford I. Weill (A.B. 1955)- CEO of Citigroup.
• Ratan N Tata (B.Arch. 1962) - Chairman of India's wealthiest business group (Tata Sons).
• Herbert F. Johnson (A.B 1922) and Samuel C Johnson (A.B 1950) - founder/first executives of the Johnson family businesses.
• Barber B Conable ((A.B. ’42, LL.B. ’48) - Congressional representative 1965–85; World Bank president 1986–91.
• Frederick Douglass Patterson (Ph.D. 1933) - educator, philanthropist, and founder of the United Negro College Fund; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom 1987.

8.4 Medicine

• Urie Bronfenbrenner (A.B. 1938) - pioneering researcher in human development
• Jane Brody (B.S. 1962) - Author and journalist on health and nutrition
• Dr. Joyce Brothers (B.S. 1947) Author, psychologist, and television personality.
• Dr. Henry Heimlich (A.B. 1941, M.D. 1943) - inventor of the Heimlich maneuver.
• Helen Irlen (B.S. 1967) - developer of a color-filtered cure for a certain type of dyslexia known as Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome or Irlen Syndrome .
• Dr. Robert Atkins (M.D. 1955) - creator of Atkins Diet and an author on health and nutrition.
• Anthony S. Fauci (M.D. 1966) - director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; recipient of the 2002 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.
• Philip Levine (M.D. 1923) - immuno-hematologist ; discovered the Rh factor in blood in 1939.

8.5 Science and Technology

• Willis Haviland Carrier ( M.E. 1901) - inventor of modern air conditioning technology, founder of the Carrier Corporation
• Wilson Greatbatch (B.E.E. 1950) - one of the early developers of the implantable artificial pacemaker.
• Leroy Grumman ( M.E. 1916) - founder of Grumman Aerospace Corporation
• Jeff Hawkins ( 1979) - inventor of the PalmPilot and founder of Palm, Inc. and Handspring
• Laurens Hammond ( M.E. 1914) - inventor of the Hammond organ
• Dr. Irwin Jacobs (B.E.E. 1954) - UCSD and MIT engineering professor, pioneer of CDMA wireless technology, cofounder and CEO of Qualcomm, philanthropist, husband of philanthropist Joan Jacobs ( 1954).
• David Starr Jordan (M.S. 1872) - Smithsonian Institution associate; president of Indiana University and founding president of Stanford University.
• Douglas McIlroy ( B. E. P. 1954) - Inventor of the pipes and filters architecture of UNIX and the entire software componentry concept
• Thomas Midgley ( M.E. 1911 )- inventor of Freon and tetra-ethyl lead.
• Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. - computer worm author.
• Roger Morse (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - apiculture author, teacher, researcher
• Steven Squyres (B.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981) - astronomer, principal science investigator for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity; former student of Carl Sagan

8.6 NASA Astronauts

• Dr. Ellen S. Baker (M.D. 1978) - astronaut
• Daniel T. Barry (B.S.E.E. 1975) - astronaut
• Jay C. Buckey, Jr. (B.S.E.E., 1977) - astronaut
• Martin J. Fettman (B.S. 1976, M.S. 1970, D.V.M 1970) - astronaut
• David C. Hilmers - (B.A. 1972) astronaut
• Dr. Mae Jemison (M.D. 1981) - chemical engineer, physician, teacher, and astronaut; member of National Women's Hall of Fame.
• G. David Low (B.S.M.E. 1980) - astronaut
• Edward T. Lu (B.S.E.E. 1984) - astronaut.
• Donald A. Thomas (M.S. 1980, Ph.D. 1982) - astronaut

8.7 Literature

• Diane Ackerman (M.F.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1979) - author, poet, and naturalist.
• Eric Alterman - liberal author and columnist.
• Harold Bloom - literary and cultural scholar-critic.
• Margaret Bourke-White (A.B. 1927) - photojournalist.
• Ann Coulter (A.B. 1985) - conservative author and columnist.
• Richard Fariña - author and musician.
• Jesse Redmon Fauset (A.B 1905) - literary editor and mentor; author; active in the Harlem Renaissance.
• Alice Fulton (M.F.A. 1982) - poet, author, feminist, MacArthur Fellow.
• Toni Morrison (M.A. 1955) - novelist; Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, author of Song of Solomon.
• Thomas Perry (A.B. 1969) - novelist; Edgar Award winner.
• Thomas Pynchon (A.B. 1959) - author, Gravity's Rainbow.
• Matt Ruff - author.
• Kurt Vonnegut - author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.
• E. B. White (A.B. 1921) - American essayist, co-author of The Elements of Style, author of Charlotte's Web.
• Sheryl WuDunn (A.B. 1981) - journalist at the New York Times, co-winner in 1990 of the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, winner of the George Polk Award in 1989, and winner of the Overseas Press Club in 1990.

8.8 Entertainment / Music / Sports

• Bruce Arena (B.S 1973) - Coach of the United States men%27s national soccer team
• Gary Bettman (B.S. 1974) - commissioner of the NHL
• Ken Dryden (A.B. 1969) - NHL Hockey Hall of Fame goalie
• Richard Farina - author and folksinger.
• Allen Funt (A.B. 1934) - producer, created Candid Camera show (the first "reality tv"!).
• Sidney Kingsley (A.B. 1928) - playwright, screenwriter, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for the drama Men in White
• Arthur Laurents (A.B. 1937) - playwright, screenwriter, director, author.
• Huey Lewis - rock musician ( Huey Lewis and the News).
• Bill Maher (A.B. 1978) - comedian and Politically Incorrect satirist.
• Joe Nieuwendyk - NHL Stanley Cup Champion
• Bill Nye (B.S., MEng 1977) - the Science Guy.
• Keith Olbermann (B.S. 1979) - television sports and news commentator.
• Christopher Reeve (A.B. 1974) - actor, best known for Superman.
• Richard J. Price (B.S. 1971) - novelist ( The Wanderers ) and Academy Award nominated screenwriter ( The Color of Money)
• Steve Reich (A.B. 1957) - composer.
• Dick Schaap (B.S. 1955) - sports newscaster on ABC and ESPN, twice winner of the Emmy Award, author and coauthor of thirty-three books
• Thelma Shoonmaker (A.B. 1961 ) - film editor, received the Academy Award for Raging Bull
• Jimmy Smits (M.F.A. 1982) - actor.
• Tim Squyres (A.B. 1981) - Academy Award nominated film editor, best known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Peter Yarrow (A.B. 1959) - folksinger ( Peter, Paul and Mary).
• Harold Gould (A.M. 1948, Ph.D. 1953) - stage, screen, and television actor.
• Robert A. Moog (Ph.D. 1965) - inventor of the Moog music synthesizer.
• Pedro Pablo Morales (J.D. 1994) - two-time gold medalist in swimming, 1992 Summer Olympics.

8.9 Architecture

• Richard Meier (B.Arch. 1957) - architect; Pritzker Architecture Prize winner.
• Gisue Hariri (B.Arch. 1980) and Mojgan Hariri (B.Arch. 1981) - New York City–based architects.
• Ricardo Zurita (B.Arch. 1984 - architect

9 External links

• Cornell University official homepage: http://www.cornell.edu/
• CUinfo (campus portal): http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/
• Cornell Daily Sun (student newspaper): http://www.cornelldailysun.com/
• Official Cornell athletics site: http://www.cornellbigred.com/
• The Cornell Club (private alumni club in New York City): http://www.cornellclubnyc.com/
• Cornell International Law Journal: http://organizations.lawschool.cornell.edu/ilj/home.html/

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