Investing in potential
Cornell grads representing class years across seven decades establish new undergraduate affordability scholarships.
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Partnering for the greatest good
In this year’s Stewardship Report, we highlight some of the ways our faculty, students, and donors are working to do the greatest good they can do for current and future generations. Their work is an important reminder of how Cornellians carry the remarkable potential to transform lives and communities all over the world.
These accomplishments wouldn’t be possible without the support Cornell receives through its endowment funds and its many partnerships with donors. These investments provide essential and permanent support for our exceptional students and faculty, ensuring that Cornell’s pursuit to do the greatest possible good sustains for our time, and for all time.
My scholarship has helped me get clarity in what I want to do with my life. I want to make a difference in the world through my work and who I am as a person. I want to find a passion to pursue that will directly impact the world. I want to be able to discover the impossible. I believe in the impossible, and through my time at Cornell, I want to come a little closer to discovering who I am.
—2023 scholarship recipient
Cornell Academic Materials Program delivers savings, reduces undergraduate stress
Undergraduate students at Cornell collectively saved an estimated $2.88 million—or about $145 per student per semester on average—because of the success of the Cornell Academic Materials Program (CAMP).
Launched in fiscal year 2023, this optional, university-wide program makes the cost of educational materials more predictable for students and families, reducing the stress and burden of searching for low-cost materials from different sources.
Faculty at the frontier
Translating knowledge into action for the greater good
Cornell’s presence extends far beyond its campuses, largely thanks to remarkable advances by our faculty to improve lives in the real world. A firm commitment to partnering across disciplines and within communities is a driving force behind Cornell faculty members’ teaching, scholarship, research, and public engagement.
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Jessica Chen Weiss
Learn more about recent work from Jessica Chen Weiss, the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University.
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Saurabh Mehta
Learn more about recent work from Saurabh Mehta, the Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University and founding director of the Cornell Center for Precision Nutrition and Health.
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Steven Strogatz
Learn more about recent work from Steven Strogatz, the Susan and Barton Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics and the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University.
Strength in numbers
Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students reach across disciplines to tackle
society’s most complex challenges and make breakthrough discoveries.
Lígia Fonseca Coelho, a Fulbright postdoctoral researcher in astronomy, works in her lab in Wing Hall.
Photo: Noël Heaney (UREL)
Cornell’s faculty offer courses across disciplines that put students in direct partnership with one another and with communities—in Ithaca and around the globe—helping them learn how to design, implement, and evaluate real solutions to real problems.
Dr. Kelechi Umoga ’15, co-founder of Crossroads, meets with the current team of student-entrepreneurs.
Photo: Sreang "C" Hok (UREL)
Connections among researchers, students, staff, and external partners are key to forging solutions in climate, energy, food, and health—that ensure people and the planet not only survive, but thrive.
Professor Steve Grodsky and researchers construct floating photovoltaic panels for a study funded by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
Photo: Jason Koski (UREL)
University endowment reports ‘solid’ return in FY 2023
Cornell’s endowment achieved a 3.6% return in the fiscal year ending June 30, adding a net investment gain of $355 million to finish the year valued at just over $10 billion.
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A call to do the greatest good
Learn more about the campaign, why it matters now, and the leaders guiding our efforts forward.
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