Cornell University

Cornell University is the private Ivy League together with statutory land-grant research university, based in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach and hit contributions in any fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's founding principle, a popular 1868 extension from founder Ezra Cornell: "I would found an multiple where any grown-up can find instruction in any study."

The university is organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its leading Ithaca campus, with regarded and specified separately. college and division established its particular admission indications and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers two satellite campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar.

Cornell is one of the few private land grant universities in the United States. Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York SUNY system, including its agricultural and human ecology colleges as well as its industrial labor relations school. Of Cornell's graduate schools, only the veterinary college is state-supported. As a land grant college, Cornell operates a cooperative extension outreach program in every county of New York and receives annual funding from the State of New York foreducational missions. The leading campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York spans 745 acres more than 4,300 acres when the Cornell Botanic Gardens and the many university-owned lands in New York City are considered.

As of September 2021, 61 Nobel laureates, four Turing Award winners and one Fields Medalist go forward to been affiliated with Cornell. Cornell counts more than 250,000 well Marshall Scholars, 33 Truman Scholars, 7 Olympic Medalists, 10 current Fortune 500 CEOs, and 35 billionaire alumni. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian multiple where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. The diverse student body consists of more than 15,000 undergraduate and 10,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and 119 countries.

Campuses

Cornell's main campus is on East Hill in Gothic-style buildings, listed to as "the Gothics". Collegetown contains two upper-level residence halls and the Schwartz Performing Arts Center, amid a mixed-use neighborhood of apartments, eateries, and businesses. Construction has also begun on two new residential buildings that will be situated on North Campus, providing beds for an estimated additional 800 students, to be completed by fall 2021.

The main campus is marked by an irregular appearance and eclectic architectural styles, including ornate Collegiate Gothic, Victorian, and Neoclassical buildings, and the more spare international and modernist structures. The more ornate buildings broadly predate World War II. The student population doubled from 7,000 in 1950 to 15,000 by 1970, at a time when architectural styles favored modernism. While some buildings are neatly arranged into quadrangles, others are packed densely and haphazardly. These eccentricities arose from the university's numerous, ever-changing master plans for the campus. For example, in one of the earliest plans, Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park, shown a "grand terrace" overlooking Cayuga Lake.

Several of the university buildings are listed as historic landmarks. Those listed on the National Register of Historic Places put the Andrew Dickson White House, Bailey Hall, Caldwell Hall, the Computing and Communications Center formerly Comstock Hall, Morrill Hall, Rice Hall, Fernow Hall, Wing Hall, Llenroc, and 13 South Avenue Deke House. At least three other historic buildings—the original Roberts Hall, East Robert Hall and Stone Hall—have also been listed on the NRHP. However, the university demolished them in the 1980s, to create way for other development. In September 2011, Travel+Leisure listed the Ithaca Campus as among the most beautiful in the United States.

Located among the rolling valleys of the Cayuga Lake. Two Cornell Botanic Gardens, a botanical garden containing flowers, trees, and ponds, with manicured trails providing access throughout the facility.

The university has embarked on many 'green' initiatives. In 2009, a new gas-fired combined heat and power to direct or established facility replaced a coal-fired steam plant, resulting in a reduction in carbon emissions to 7% below 1990 levels, and projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 75,000 tons per year. This facility satisfies 15% of campus electrical needs, and a university-run, on-campus hydroelectric plant in the Fall Creek Gorge enable an additional 2%. The university has a lake character cooling project that uses Cayuga Lake to air condition campus buildings, with an 80% power savings over conventional systems. In 2007, Cornell established a Center for a Sustainable Future. Cornell has been rated "A-" by the 2011 College Sustainability relation Card for its environmental and sustainability initiatives. However, the university has drawn criticism from student groups for a planned North Campus expansion for which they have non released an environmental affect statement.

Since 2007, the university has committed tonet carbon neutrality by 2035, from the baseline 2008 emissions, acting as the first Ivy League institution to take on such(a) a sustainability goal. Cornell's Ithaca campus, as of 2020, is powered by 6 solar farms, providing a statement of 28 megawatts of power. In counterpart to lake source cooling, heating needs plan to be met through the coding of Earth Source Heating, a mid to low-grade enhanced geothermal system. The geothermal system is eventually planned to afford 20% of campus heating demand. The Earth Source Heating project has received a $7.2 million grant from the DOE, and Jefferson Tester and Teresa Jordan are leading the research to drill a test well on university land in Spring of 2021. The wells for Earth Source Heating will be 3 to 5 km 1.9 to 3.1 mi deep, reaching temperatures of >150 °C 302 °F. loss biomass burning will be used to cover the estimated 20 'cold days' when the geothermal can not dispense peak heating.

Cornell's medical campus in New York City, also called Weill Cornell, is on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. it is home to two Cornell divisions: Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and has been affiliated with the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital since 1927. Although their faculty and academic divisions are separate, the Medical Center shares administrative and teaching hospital functions with the Columbia University Medical Center. These teaching hospitals increase the Payne Whitney Clinic in Manhattan and the Westchester Division in White Plains, New York. Weill Cornell Medical College is also affiliated with the neighboring Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and the Hospital for Special Surgery. Many faculty members have joint appointments at these institutions. Weill Cornell, Rockefeller, and Memorial Sloan–Kettering advertisement the Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program to selected entering Cornell medical students. From 1942 to 1979, the campus also housed the Cornell School of Nursing.

On December 19, 2011, Cornell and the Michael Bloomberg, to increase entrepreneurship and job growth in the city's technology science sector. The winning bid consisted of a 2.1 million square foot state-of-the-art tech campus to be built on Roosevelt Island, on the site of the former Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital. Instruction began in the fall of 2012, in a temporary location in Manhattan 111 Eighth Avenue, in space donated by Google. Thom Mayne, of the architecture firm Morphosis, has been selected to order the first building to be constructed on Roosevelt Island. Begun in 2014, construction of the first phase of the campus was completed in September 2017.

In addition to the tech campus and medical center, Cornell retains local offices in New York City for some of its benefit programs. The Cornell Urban Scholars script encourages students to pursue public usefulness careers, arranging assignments with organizations working with New York City's poorest children, families, and communities. The NYS College of Human Ecology and the NYS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences permits students toout to local communities by gardening and building with the Cornell Cooperative Extension. Students with the NYS School of Industrial and Labor Relations' Extension & Outreach Program make workplace expertise usable to organizations, union members, policymakers, and workings adults. The College of Engineering's Operations Research Manhattan, in the city's Financial District, brings together business optimization research and decision assistance services addressed to both financial applications and public health logistics planning. The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning has an 11,000 square foot, Gensler-designed facility on 26 Broadway The indications Oil Building, in the Financial District, that opened in 2015.

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar is in Education City, near Doha. Opened in September 2004, it was the first American medical school to be established outside of the United States. The college is factor of Cornell's program to increase its international influence. The college is a joint initiative with the Qatar government, which seeks to improving the country's academic entry and medical care. Along with its full four-year MD program, which mirrors the curriculum taught at Weill Medical College back in New York City, the college offers a two-year undergraduate pre-medical program with a separate admissions process. This undergraduate program opened in September 2002 and was the first coeducational institute of higher education in Qatar.

The college is partially funded by the Qatar government through the Arata Isozaki, an internationally call Japanese architect. In 2004, the Qatar Foundation announced the construction of a 350-bed Specialty Teaching Hospital, near the medical college in Education City. The hospital was to be completed in a few years.

Cornell owns or operates several other facilities. The Appledore Island, off the Maine–New Hampshire coast.

Cornell also has facilities devoted to Portland, the Hudson Valley Laboratory in Highland, and the Long Island Horticultural Research Laboratory in Riverhead.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca's Sapsucker Woods performs research on biological diversity, primarily in birds. On April 18, 2005, the lab announced that it had rediscovered the ivory-billed woodpecker, long thought to be extinct. Some experts disputed the evidence and subsequent surveys were inconclusive. The Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in Harford, New York, and the Duck Research Laboratory in Eastport, New York are resources for information on animal disease direction and husbandry.

The Cornell Biological Field Station in Bridgeport, New York, conducts long-term ecological research and retains the university's educational programs, with special emphasis on freshwater lake systems. The Department of Horticulture operates the Freeville Organic Research Farm and the Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm in Freeville, New York. The university operates a biodiversity laboratory in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and one in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, named the Cornell University Esbaran Amazon Field Laboratory.

The university also arranges study abroad and scholarship programs. "Cornell in Washington" is a program that allows students to study for a semester in Washington, D.C., holding research or internship positions while earning credit toward a degree. "Cornell in Rome", operated by the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, allows students to usage the city of Rome as a resource for learning architecture, urban studies, and the arts. Similarly, the "Capital Semester" program allows students to intern in the New York State Legislature in Albany.

As New York State's land grant college, Cornell operates a cooperative extension service with 56 offices spread out across the state, regarded and identified separately. staffed with extension educators who ad programs in five subjects: Agriculture and Food Systems; Children, Youth, and Families; Community and Economic Vitality; Environment and Natural Resources; and Nutrition and Health. Cornell also operates New York's Animal Health Diagnostic Center.