Gift guide | Colleges and Units | Student and Academic Services

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

The all-new Noyes Community and Recreation Center (NCRC), dedicated in 2009, is a gateway to West Campus and offers students a state-of-the-art center that upholds the high standards set by Robert Purcell Union and Appel Commons on North Campus. The center serves residents in the West Campus House System as well as students who live in the surrounding neighborhood, including the area's cooperative living houses, fraternities, and sororities. Features include a gymnasium, fitness center, multi-purpose room, bouldering wall, wireless Internet; and Jansen’s Market, a quick-stop grocery. A facility director develops student programming to meet the high demand for recreational, social, and fitness activities across West Campus. 

The name of the new center reaffirms the leadership of Frederick "Jansen" Noyes '10 and Agnes Blanke Noyes and the continuing generosity of the Noyes family.

Specific giving opportunities for the Noyes Community Recreation Center include the following:

For more info, contact
Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

For more info, contact
Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

For more info, contact
Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@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.

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

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.

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

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John Webster
607-255-5631
jlw9@cornell.edu

High energy and fresh ideas are hallmarks of Cornell students. Annual funds help make it possible for students to put ideas into action and give them the resources to succeed throughout their years at Cornell. Most recently, annual gifts funded a public service project in Nicaragua where students built a library during their spring break. They also helped complete the second-floor renovation in Willard Straight Hall, which included a new round-the-clock digital computer lab for student use. And, to ensure that students find help when they need it, annual funds were used to support an on-campus training course for student service professionals in solution-oriented therapy. Gifts of all sizes make a tremendous difference to Cornell students and are put to work right away on their behalf.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Annual gifts in support of Athletics and Physical Education power a winning tradition. They are essential to advancing all of Cornell’s Big Red intercollegiate teams and the games and competitions that bring together enthusiastic Cornell fans. They are fundamental to providing opportunities for fitness and recreation across the entire campus community. For Cornell’s scholar-athletes, annual gifts defray travel, recruiting, publication, and other costs critical to a first-class program. They give the director flexibility to allocate funds to teams that have outstanding seasons and continue on to advanced levels of competition. This support also provides resources for safe, high-quality equipment, and other pressing needs that arise quickly and help student-athletes flourish. In addition, annual gifts provide essential support for a physical education department that responds dynamically to student interests and offers renowned programs in intramurals and outdoor education.

For more info, contact
John Webster
607-255-5631
jlw9@cornell.edu