Gift guide | Colleges and Units | Arts and Sciences

Honoring Cornell's 10th president, Hunter R. Rawlings, this highly competitive program aims to bring the nation's most academically gifted students to Cornell. This program acknowledges his exceptional leadership of the university and his commitment to undergraduate education. Open to undergraduate students across all academic disciplines, the program offers each student an opportunity to work with a faculty mentor. Together they design and plan an individualized program of faculty-directed research. Rawlings Presidential Research Scholars may present their work at a variety of academic and social events. Your gift can help fund a research-support account that students may use for wages, research-related travel, limited supplies, and summer research expenses. In addition, students with need receive financial support for tuition and to reduce their student loans.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

"You are here to build a university," said President Andrew Dickson White to the first class of Cornellians in 1865. White and Ezra Cornell felt that labor was an essential element to completing an otherwise purely academic program. In exchange for their labor, the university forgave part of the cost of education for those students who worked. The Cornell Tradition continues the vision of rewarding students who work and serve their communities while obtaining an undergraduate degree. The Cornell Tradition is an alumni-endowed fellowship program that recognizes and rewards outstanding students dedicated to work, service, and scholarship. The program awards approximately 600 fellowships each year to Cornell undergraduates who have significant work experience, make meaningful contributions to campus and/or community service, and maintain a high level of academic achievement.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

"You are here to build a university," said President Andrew Dickson White to the first class of Cornellians in 1865. White and Ezra Cornell felt that labor was an essential element to completing an otherwise purely academic program. In exchange for their labor, the university forgave part of the cost of education for those students who worked. The Cornell Tradition continues the vision of rewarding students who work and serve their communities while obtaining an undergraduate degree. The Cornell Tradition is an alumni-endowed fellowship program that recognizes and rewards outstanding students dedicated to work, service, and scholarship. The program awards approximately 600 fellowships each year to Cornell undergraduates who have significant work experience, make meaningful contributions to campus and/or community service, and maintain a high level of academic achievement.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

This named fellowship honors Ezra Cornell's vision, determination, and financial commitment that "would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Fellowships may be designated to assist students in a field of study of your choice and will provide support to future generations of graduate students. You may choose to keep the name of the fellowship, add your own name, or replace the name with another as a way to honor a family member, friend, or teacher.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Graduate aid often determines where the best students choose to study, while the best graduate students help attract the very best faculty.

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Honoring Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock, this endowed fellowship may be designated to assist students in a field of study of your choice and will provide support to future generations of graduate students. You may choose to keep the name of the fellowship, add your own name, or replace the name with another as a way to honor a family member, friend, or teacher.

For more info, contact
Pat Watson
607-254-1350
paw37@cornell.edu

This fellowship honors the late Cornell Professor Hans Bethe, who was appointed to the faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1935. He has been honored around the world, including with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1967 for his accomplishments in astrophysics and nuclear physics. Fellowships may be designated to assist students in a field of study of your choice and will provide support to future generations of graduate students. You may choose to keep the name of the fellowship, add your own name, or replace the name with another as a way to honor a family member, friend, or teacher.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Cornell's outstanding faculty change students' lives. Cornellians will tell you that the same faculty who shaped their experiences on campus continue to influence them personally and professionally. Cornell expects to lose up to 600 faculty in the next 10 years due to a surge in retirements. Peer universities will face similar recruiting challenges at the same time, placing new pressure on Cornell to attract and retain the very best teachers, researchers, and scholars in an intensely competitive hiring environment. Increasing faculty endowment funds is vital to the continued health of the university. Available in all colleges, this gift provides support for a senior faculty member who is considering retirement, enabling Cornell to fill the existing faculty position with a new hire. By doing so, Cornell can continue to benefit from the senior faculty member's wisdom and experience while recruiting the most talented new faculty.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Cornell's outstanding faculty change students' lives. Cornellians will tell you that the same faculty who shaped their experiences on campus continue to influence them personally and professionally. Cornell expects to lose up to 600 faculty in the next 10 years due to a surge in retirements. Peer universities will face similar recruiting challenges at the same time, placing new pressure on Cornell to attract and retain the very best teachers, researchers, and scholars in an intensely competetive hiring environment. Increasing faculty endowment funds is vital to the continued health of the university. Available in all colleges, this gift provides perpetual support for a fully tenured faculty member, enabling the university to acknowledge his or her position with a named chair, one of the highest honors a professor can obtain at Cornell.

Essential to all colleges, assistant professorships provide Cornell with an important tool to recruit new faculty. These endowed positions cover salary and related research or professional expenses in perpetuity.

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Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Faculty hiring through the next decade will be the most important in half a century. Endowed professorships and competitive salaries are essential to Cornell's ability across all its colleges, schools, and units to attract faculty who are breaking new ground and leading in traditional fields. 

In an intensely competitive environment, graduate aid often determines where the best students choose to study, and the best graduate students help attract the very best faculty. This is particularly true in the sciences, where Cornell's success depends on its ability to offer fellowships and other support to students with great potential. Postdoctoral fellowships provide funding for highly trained young faculty who spend a year or two at Cornell and make major contributions to research endeavors. Postdocs also represent potential candidates for faculty positions, so these fellowships are an important means of attracting top talent who can then be recruited as the next generation of Cornell scholars.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Creating an endowment for Cornell's visionary CAPS program will advance its teaching, research, and leadership. CAPS graduates are well prepared to work with Chinese and Asian professionals.  They communicate in at least two langiuages, adapt to diverse workplaces, and apply cross-cultural knowledge and experience to lead in any profession.

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For more info, contact
Jim Mazza '88
607-254-7497
jam16@cornell.edu

A flexible fund allows college deans to fund significant college-centered endeavors or respond quickly to emerging opportunities. In each college, the Dean's Fund for Strategic Initiatives provides vital and discretionary resources.

This endowed fellowship honoring Andrew Dickson White, Cornell's first president, may be designated to assist students in a field of study of your choice.

For more info, contact
David Whitmore
607-255-8478
dkw2@cornell.edu