Gift guide | Faculty | Faculty Support

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.

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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. To help retain our existing faculty, the provost needs to provide flexible financial support to faculty for special programs or projects, or to meet unforeseen expenses related to their work. A gift to a Provost's Faculty Discretionary Fund enables our academic leadership to provide funding for unexpected research and travel costs, to supplement a faculty compensation package, or to meet any number of important needs in Cornell's effort to give our faculty every chance for success. You can start your fund with a minimum gift of $50,000, and you can add to the fund whenever you like.

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

Cornell faculty research touches lives far beyond the campus borders. The results of this research provide remarkable returns on investments, helping to advance the quality of human life and human understanding worldwide. But cutting-edge research is expensive. A gift to a faculty research fund enables Cornell to provide additional research funding to areas where it is most needed, providing our faculty with financial support to achieve their goals and help make the world a better place. Research funds are also essential in Cornell's effort to recruit and retain the best faculty, as the availability of research funding is an important component of faculty contract negotiations. You can start your named research fund with a minimum gift of $50,000, and you can add to the fund whenever you like.

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

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

Named endowed program funds provide income to be used in peretuity to advance Cornell's efforts in biomedical engineering.

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Jim Mazza '88
607-254-7497
jam16@cornell.edu

Endowed excellence funds allow Cornell to respond to new opportunities with agility and speed. From funding new research directions to attracting the best and brightest minds to enhancing programmatic resources across the university, these funds give the vice provost the flexibility to invest in areas of greatest need and opportunity.

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

This new institute fosters research among social scientists from diverse areas and advances the research of junior faculty members. Endowing the institute ensures its operation and financial stability far into the future and is one of the most important priorities for the Social Sciences Initiative.

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

Social scientists rely on CISER's computing and informational data systems. It is one of two locations for New York Census Research data and provides access to microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau. Endowing the institute will relieve faculty of charges they incur from using this service, and will allow for critical hardware and technology improvements.

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

This competitive program funds early stage and exploratory research with grants averaging $5,000 each. These small grants often help secure major grants from federal agencies like the NSF or the NIH. The institute seeks to expand its funding to $300,000 so that it can support a greater number of innovative research ideas and support new faculty at a level comparable to peer institutions.

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

This competitive program funds early stage and exploratory research with grants averaging $5,000 each. These small grants often help secure major grants from federal agencies like the NSF or the NIH. The institute seeks to fund a greater number of innovative research ideas and support new faculty at a level comparable to peer institutions.

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

Postdocs inject fresh perspectives, conduct research, mentor students, and help principal investigators compete for grants. Cornell's salaries, benefits, and other compensation have lagged behind those at other institutions. Endowing postdoctoral fellowships will help close this gap and ensure that postdocs are paid competitive salaries.

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

This competitive program funds early stage and exploratory research with grants averaging $5,000 each. These small grants often help secure major grants from federal agencies like the NSF or the NIH. The institute seeks to expand its funding to $300,000 so that it can support a greater number of innovative research ideas and engage new faculty at a level comparable to peer institutions.

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

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