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Graduate Fellowships

Graduate Fellowships

Supporting the scholars and faculty of tomorrow

Graduate aid often determines where the best students choose to study, while 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 for students with great potential. Gifts of all sizes are welcome. Named giving opportunities are listed below. To start a gift conversation, contact Laura Toy, 607-255-3950, llt1@cornell.edu.

Giving opportunities

$1,000,000

Support the faculty of tomorrow

$250,000

To honor a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning writer

$100,000

Honoring a Nobel Prize winner

$50,000

One year of immediate support for a deserving graduate student

Life Sciences

$1,000,000

Strengthen a new generation of teaching engineers

$100,000

Bring promising engineers to Cornell

$100,000

Strengthen a new generation of teaching engineers

$100,000

Broaden academic study through a medical setting

Social Sciences

$1,000,000

Help Cornell attract top young social scientist grad students

$1,000,000

Mentoring undergraduate students

$500,000

Attract and recruit top graduate students

$1,000,000 and up

Advance critical research and teaching

$50,000 and up

Help launch a budding career

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