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23,500 | Medical conditions that inhibit consciousness are considered disorders of consciousness. This category generally includes minimally conscious state and persistent vegetative state, but sometimes also includes the less severe locked-in syndrome and more severe chronic coma. Differential diagnosis of these disorders is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 |
23,501 | One of the most striking disorders of consciousness goes by the name anosognosia, a Greek-derived term meaning 'unawareness of disease'. This is a condition in which patients are disabled in some way, most commonly as a result of a stroke, but either misunderstand the nature of the problem or deny that there is anythin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 |
23,502 | William James is usually credited with popularizing the idea that human consciousness flows like a stream, in his "Principles of Psychology" of 1890. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 |
23,503 | A similar concept appears in Buddhist philosophy, expressed by the Sanskrit term "Citta-saṃtāna", which is usually translated as mindstream or "mental continuum". Buddhist teachings describe that consciousness manifests moment to moment as sense impressions and mental phenomena that are continuously changing. The teach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 |
23,504 | In the West, the primary impact of the idea has been on literature rather than science: "stream of consciousness as a narrative mode" means writing in a way that attempts to portray the moment-to-moment thoughts and experiences of a character. This technique perhaps had its beginnings in the monologues of Shakespeare's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 |
23,505 | To most philosophers, the word "consciousness" connotes the relationship between the mind and the world. To writers on spiritual or religious topics, it frequently connotes the relationship between the mind and God, or the relationship between the mind and deeper truths that are thought to be more fundamental than the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 |
23,506 | distinguished between three types of consciousness: 'Simple Consciousness', awareness of the body, possessed by many animals; 'Self Consciousness', awareness of being aware, possessed only by humans; and 'Cosmic Consciousness', awareness of the life and order of the universe, possessed only by humans who are enlightene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 |
23,507 | Another thorough account of the spiritual approach is Ken Wilber's 1977 book "The Spectrum of Consciousness", a comparison of western and eastern ways of thinking about the mind. Wilber described consciousness as a spectrum with ordinary awareness at one end, and more profound types of awareness at higher levels. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 |
23,508 | Cornell University is a private Ivy League and 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 make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,509 | The university is organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, with each college and division defining its specific admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers three satellite campuses, two in New York City and one in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,510 | 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 rela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,511 | As of September 2021, 61 Nobel laureates, four Turing Award winners and one Fields Medalist have been affiliated with Cornell. Cornell counts more than 250,000 living alumni, and its former and present faculty and alumni include 34 Marshall Scholars, 33 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, 63 Olympic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,512 | Cornell University was founded on April 27, 1865; the New York State (NYS) legislature authorized the university as the state's land grant institution. Senator Ezra Cornell offered his farm in Ithaca, New York, as a site and $500,000 of his personal fortune as an initial endowment. Fellow senator and educator Andrew Di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,513 | Cornell developed as a technologically innovative institution, applying its research to its own campus and to outreach efforts. For example, in 1883, it was one of the first university campuses to use electricity from a water-powered dynamo to light the grounds. Since 1894, Cornell has included colleges that are state ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,514 | Cornell has had active alumni since its earliest classes. It was one of the first universities to include alumni-elected representatives on its board of trustees. Cornell was also among the Ivies that had heightened student activism during the 1960s, related to cultural issues, civil rights, and opposition to the Vietn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,515 | Since 2000, Cornell has been expanding its international programs. In 2004, the university opened the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. It has partnerships with institutions in India, Singapore, and the People's Republic of China. The former president, Jeffrey S. Lehman, described the university, with its high in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,516 | A graduate student group, At What Cost?, formed at Cornell in August 2002 to oppose a graduate student unionization drive run by an organization called CASE/UAW that was affiliated with the United Auto Workers. The unionization vote was held October 23–24, 2002, and the union was rejected. At What Cost? was considered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,517 | Cornell's main campus is on East Hill in Ithaca, New York, overlooking the city and Cayuga Lake. Since the university was founded, it has expanded to about , encompassing both the hill and much of the surrounding areas. Central Campus has laboratories, administrative buildings, and almost all of the campus' academic bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,518 | The main campus is marked by an irregular layout and eclectic architectural styles, including ornate Collegiate Gothic, Victorian, and Neoclassical buildings, and the more spare international and modernist structures. The more ornate buildings generally predate World War II. The student population doubled from 7,000 in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,519 | Several of the university buildings are listed as historic landmarks. Those listed on the National Register of Historic Places include 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, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,520 | Located among the rolling valleys of the Finger Lakes region, the campus on the hill provides views of the surrounding area, including the Cayuga Lake. Two gorges, Fall Creek Gorge and Cascadilla Gorge, bound Central Campus and are used as popular swimming holes during the warmer months (although the university and cit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,521 | The university has embarked on numerous 'green' initiatives. In 2009, a new gas-fired combined heat and power 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 satisfie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,522 | Since 2007, the university has committed to achieve net carbon neutrality by 2035, from the baseline 2008 emissions, acting as the first Ivy League institution to take on such a sustainability goal. Cornell's Ithaca campus, as of 2020, is powered by 6 solar farms, providing a total of 28 megawatts of power. In counterp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,523 | 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 thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,524 | On December 19, 2011, Cornell and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology won a competition for rights to claim free city land and $100 million in subsidies to build an engineering campus in New York City. The competition was established by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to increase entrepreneurship and job... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,525 | In addition to the tech campus and medical center, Cornell maintains local offices in New York City for some of its service programs. The Cornell Urban Scholars Program encourages students to pursue public service careers, arranging assignments with organizations working with New York City's poorest children, families,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,526 | 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 part of Cornell's program to increase its international influence. The college is a joint initiative with the Qatar go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,527 | The college is partially funded by the Qatar government through the Qatar Foundation, which contributed $750 million for its construction. The medical center is housed in a large two-story structure designed by Arata Isozaki, an internationally known Japanese architect. In 2004, the Qatar Foundation announced the const... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,528 | Cornell owns or operates several other facilities. The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, site of the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, was operated by Cornell under a contract with the National Science Foundation from its construction until 2011. The Shoals Marine Laboratory, operated in conjunction with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,529 | Cornell also has facilities devoted to conservation and ecology. The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, operated by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is in Geneva, New York, northwest of the main campus. It operates three substations: the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory (CLE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,530 | 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). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,531 | The Cornell Biological Field Station in Bridgeport, New York, conducts long-term ecological research and supports 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 Resea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,532 | 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 P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,533 | As New York State's land grant college, Cornell operates a cooperative extension service with 56 offices spread out across the state, each staffed with extension educators who offer programs in five subjects: Agriculture and Food Systems; Children, Youth, and Families; Community and Economic Vitality; Environment and N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,534 | Cornell is a non-profit organization governed by a 64-member Board of Trustees consisting of both privately and publicly appointed trustees. Three trustees are appointed by the Governor of New York: one seat is reserved for the eldest lineal descendant of Ezra Cornell; two members from each of the fields of agriculture... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,535 | Martha E. Pollack was inaugurated as Cornell's fourteenth president on August 25, 2017. She succeeded Elizabeth Garrett, who served from July 2015 until her death from colon cancer on March 6, 2016 — the first Cornell president to die while in office. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,536 | The Board of Trustees holds four regular meetings each year, and portions of those meetings are subject to the New York State Open Meetings Law. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,537 | Cornell consists of nine privately endowed and four publicly supported "statutory colleges": the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and College of Veterinary Medicine. These statutory colleges received $131.9 million in SUNY appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,538 | Cornell is decentralized, with its colleges and schools exercising wide autonomy. Each defines its own academic programs, operates its own admissions and advising programs, and confers its own degrees. The only university-wide requirements for a baccalaureate degree are to pass a swimming test, take two physical educat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,539 | Seven schools provide undergraduate programs and an additional seven provide graduate and professional programs. Students pursuing graduate degrees in departments of these schools are enrolled in the Graduate School. The School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions offers programs for college and high school stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,540 | Several other universities have used Cornell as their model, including Stanford University, Clark University, the University of Sydney in Australia, and the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom; the last did so on the recommendation of one of its financiers, Andrew Carnegie, who was a Cornell Trustee. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,541 | The university also operates eCornell, which offers both certificate programs and professional development courses online. In addition to being New York's land-grant college, Cornell is also a partner in New York's sea-grant program, and is a part of New York's space-grant consortium. The university previously served a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,542 | In 2015, Cornell ranked fifth among universities in the U.S. in fund-raising, collecting US$591 million in private support. In addition to the central University development staff located in Ithaca and New York City, each college and program has its own staffed fundraising program. In 2006, Cornell launched a $4 billio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,543 | Cornell is a large, primarily residential research university with a majority of enrollments in undergraduate programs. The university has been accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education since 1921. Cornell operates on a 4–1–4 academic calendar with the fall term beginning in late August and ending ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,544 | Cornell, Oregon State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Georgia, and University of Hawaii at Manoa are the only institutions to be members of all four Land Grant, Sea Grant, Space Grant, and Sun Grant programs. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,545 | Admission to the university is highly competitive. By the spring of 2021 (Class of 2025), Cornell's undergraduate programs collectively received 67,000 applications; 5,863 were admitted, an 8.7% acceptance rate, and enrolled. For the Fall 2019 enrolling freshmen, the middle 50% range of SAT scores were 680–760 for evid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,546 | The university continues to attract a diverse and inclusive student body. The proportion of admitted students who self-identify as underrepresented minorities increased to 34.2% from 33.7% last year, and 59.3% self-identify as students of color. That number has increased steadily over the past five years, enrollment of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,547 | Of those admitted 1,163 will be first-generation college students, another increase over last year's 844. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,548 | Section 9 of the original charter of Cornell ensured that the university "shall be open to applicants for admission ... at the lowest rates of expense consistent with its welfare and efficiency, and without distinction as to rank, class, previous occupation or locality". The University Charter provided for free instruc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,549 | Starting in the 1950s Cornell coordinated with other Ivy League schools to provide a consistent set of financial aid. However, in 1989, a consent decree to end a Justice Department antitrust investigation ended such coordination. Even after the decree, all Ivy League schools continue to award aid on financial need with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,550 | On January 31, 2008, Cornell announced a new financial aid initiative to be phased in over the following two years. In the first year, 2008–2009, Cornell replaced need-based loans with scholarships for undergraduate students from families with incomes under $60,000 and capped such loans annually at $3,000 for students ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,551 | Cornell is a member of the United Nations Academic Impact aligning institutions of higher education to the United Nations and promoting international cooperation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,552 | Cornell is the only US member school in the CEMS Alliance, and the Cornell Master's in international Management is the only programme in the US to offer the CEMS Master's in International Management (CEMS MIM) as a double degree option, allowing students to study at one of 34 prestigious CEMS partner universities. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,553 | Cornell offers undergraduate curricula with international focuses, including the Africana Studies, Asian-Pacific American Studies French Studies, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Latino studies, Near Eastern Studies, Romance studies, and Russian Literature majors. In addition to traditional academic programs, Cornell st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,554 | The Asian Studies major, South Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program and China and Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) major provide opportunities for students and researchers in Asia. Cornell has an agreement with Peking University allowing students in the CAPS major to spend a semester in Beijing. Similarly, the College of En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,555 | In the Middle East, Cornell's efforts focus on biology and medicine. The Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar trains new doctors to improve health services in the region. The university is also developing the Bridging the Rift Center, a "Library of Life" (or database of all living systems) on the border of Israel and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,556 | Cornell is ranked 12th on average over the past 30 years by "U.S. News & World Report" National Universities ranking. In 2020 Cornell ranked 7th in the US according to QS World University Rankings and 9th according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In 2015, Cornell ranked 8th domestically and 10th in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,557 | In its annual edition of "America's Best Architecture & Design Schools", the journal "Design Intelligence" has consistently ranked Cornell's Bachelor of Architecture program as number one in the nation (2000–2002, 2005–2007, 2009–2013 and 2015–2016). In the 2011 survey, the program ranked first and the Master of Archit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,558 | Cornell's international relations offerings are also ranked in "Foreign Policy" magazine's Inside the Ivory Tower survey, which lists the world's top twenty of such programs at the undergraduate, Master's and Ph.D. levels. In 2012, the survey ranked Cornell 11th overall for doctoral programs and 12th overall in the und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,559 | The Cornell University Library is the 11th largest academic library in the United States, ranked by number of volumes held. Organized into 20 divisions, in 2005 it held 7.5 million printed volumes in open stacks, 8.2 million microfilms and microfiches, and a total of 440,000 maps, motion pictures, DVDs, sound recording... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,560 | The Cornell University Press, established in 1869 but inactive from 1884 to 1930, was the first university publishing enterprise in the United States. Today, the press is one of the country's largest university presses. It produces approximately 150 nonfiction titles each year in various disciplines including anthropol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,561 | Cornell's academic units and student groups also publish a number of scholarly journals. Faculty-led publications include the Johnson School's "Administrative Science Quarterly", the ILR School's "Industrial and Labor Relations Review", the Arts and Sciences Philosophy Department's "The Philosophical Review", the Colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,562 | Cornell, a research university, is ranked fourth in the world in producing the largest number of graduates who go on to pursue PhDs in engineering or the natural sciences at American institutions, and fifth in the world in producing graduates who pursue PhDs at American institutions in any field. Research is a central ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,563 | For the 2016–17 fiscal year, the university spent $984.5 million on research. Federal sources constitute the largest source of research funding, with total federal investment of $438.2 million. The agencies contributing the largest share of that investment are the Department of Health and Human Services and the Nationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,564 | Since 1962, Cornell has been involved in unmanned missions to Mars. In the 21st century, Cornell had a hand in the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. Cornell's Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator for the Athena Science Payload, led the selection of the landing zones and requested data collection features for the Spirit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,565 | The Automotive Crash Injury Research Project was begun in 1952. It pioneered the use of crash testing, originally using corpses rather than dummies. The project discovered that improved door locks, energy-absorbing steering wheels, padded dashboards, and seat belts could prevent an extraordinary percentage of injuries. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,566 | In the early 1980s, Cornell deployed the first IBM 3090-400VF and coupled two IBM 3090-600E systems to investigate coarse-grained parallel computing. In 1984, the National Science Foundation began work on establishing five new supercomputer centers, including the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing, to provide high-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,567 | Cornell scientists have researched the fundamental particles of nature for more than 70 years. Cornell physicists, such as Hans Bethe, contributed not only to the foundations of nuclear physics but also participated in the Manhattan Project (see also: List of Cornell Manhattan Project people). In the 1930s, Cornell bui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,568 | As part of its research work, Cornell has established several research collaborations with universities around the globe. For example, a partnership with the University of Sussex (including the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex) allows research and teaching collaboration between the two institutions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,569 | For the 2016–2017 academic year, Cornell had over 1,000 registered student organizations. These clubs and organizations run the gamut from kayaking to full-armor jousting, from varsity and club sports and a cappella groups to improvisational theatre, from political clubs and publications to chess and video game clubs. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,570 | Cornell's clubs are primarily subsidized financially by the Student Assembly and the Graduate & Professional Student Assembly, two student-run organizations with a collective budget of $3.0 million per year. The assemblies also finance other student life programs including a concert commission and an on-campus theater. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,571 | Cornell hosts a large fraternity and sorority system, with 70 chapters involving 33% of male and 24% of female undergraduates. Cornell's Greek Life has an extensive history on the campus with the first fraternity, Zeta Psi, being chartered by the end of the university's first year. Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercolle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,572 | Cornell's connection to national Greek life is strong and longstanding. Many chapters are among the oldest of their respective national organizations, as evidenced by the proliferation of "Alpha-series" chapters. The chapter house of Alpha Delta Phi constructed in 1877 is believed to be the first house built in America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,573 | The Cornell student body produces several works by way of print and radio. Student-run newspapers include "The Cornell Daily Sun", an independent daily; "The Cornell Review", a conservative newspaper published fortnightly; and "The Cornell Progressive", a liberal newspaper published every month. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,574 | Other press outlets include "The Cornell Lunatic", a campus humor magazine; the "Cornell Chronicle", the university's newspaper of record; and "Kitsch Magazine", a feature magazine published in cooperation with Ithaca College. "The Cornellian" is an independent student organization that organizes, arranges, produces, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,575 | University housing is broadly divided into three sections: North Campus, West Campus, and Collegetown. Cornell began experiments with co-ed dormitories in 1971 and continued the tradition of residential advisors (RAs) within the campus system. In 1991, new students could be found throughout West Campus, including at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,576 | The options for living on North Campus for upperclassmen are the program houses and co-op houses. Program houses include Risley Residential College, Just About Music, the Ecology House, Holland International Living Center, the Multicultural Living Learning Unit, the Latino Living Center, , and Ujamaa. The co-op houses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,577 | Additionally, Cornell has several housing areas for graduate and professional students. Of these, Schuyler House (which was formerly a part of Sage Infirmary) has a dorm layout, while Maplewood Apartments, Hasbrouck Apartments, and Thurston Court Apartments are apartment-style, some even allowing for family living. Off... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,578 | , Cornell's dining system was ranked 3rd in the nation by the "Princeton Review". The university has 29 on-campus dining locations, including 10 "All You Care to Eat" cafeterias. North Campus is home to 3 of these dining halls: Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery (located in Robert Purcell Community Center), North Star D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,579 | Cornell has 35 varsity intercollegiate teams that have the nickname of the Big Red. An NCAA Division I institution, Cornell is a member of the Ivy League and ECAC Hockey and competes in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), the largest athletic conference in North America. (ECAC Hockey is no longer affiliated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,580 | Cornell's football team had at least a share of the national championship four times before 1940 and has won the Ivy League championship three times, last in 1990. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,581 | In 2010, the Cornell men's basketball team appeared for the first time in the NCAA tournament's East Regional semifinals, known as the "Sweet 16". It was the first Ivy League team to make the semifinals since 1979. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,582 | Cornell runs one of the largest collegiate outdoor education programs in the country, serving over 20,000 people every year. The program runs over 130 different courses including but not limited to: Backpacking and Camping, Mountain Biking, Bike Touring, Caving, Hiking, Rock and Ice Climbing, Wilderness First Aid, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,583 | One of the most remarkable facilities at Cornell Outdoor Education is The Lindseth Climbing Wall. The wall was renovated in 2016, and now includes 8,000 square feet of climbing surface, up from 4,800 square feet previously. The new wall now offers a more modern environment with bouldering, top-rope, and lead climbing f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,584 | Cornelliana is a term for Cornell's traditions, legends, and lore. Cornellian traditions include Slope Day, a celebration held on the last day of classes of the spring semester, and Dragon Day, which includes the burning of a dragon built by architecture students. Dragon Day is one of the school's oldest traditions and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,585 | According to legend, if a virgin crosses the Arts Quad at midnight, the statues of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White will walk off their pedestals, meet in the center of the Quad, and shake hands, congratulating themselves on the chastity of students. There is also another myth that if a couple crosses the suspensi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,586 | The university is also host to various student pranks. For example, on at least two different occasions the university has awoken to find something odd atop the 173-foot (52.7 m) tall McGraw clock tower—once a 60-pound (27 kg) pumpkin and another time a disco ball. Because there is no access to the spire atop the tower... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,587 | The school colors are carnelian (a shade of red) and white, a play on "Cornellian" and Andrew Dickson White. A bear is commonly used as the unofficial mascot, which dates back to the introduction of the mascot "Touchdown" in 1915, a live bear who was brought onto the field during football games. The university's alma m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,588 | Cornell offers a variety of professional and peer counseling services to students. Formerly called Gannett Health Services until its name change in 2016, Cornell Health offers on-campus outpatient health services with emergency services and residential treatment provided by Cayuga Medical Center. For most of its histor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,589 | The university received attention for a series of six student suicides by jumping into a gorge that occurred during the 2009–10 school year, and after the incidents added temporary fences to the bridges which span area gorges. In May 2013, Cornell indicated that it planned to set up nets, which will extend out 15 feet,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,590 | Cornell University Police protect the campus and are classified as peace officers and have the same authority as the Ithaca city police. They are similar to the campus police at Ithaca College and Syracuse University, and University of Rochester because those campus police are classified as armed peace officers. The Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,591 | Cornell counts numerous notable individuals who have either come to the university as faculty to teach and to conduct research, or as students who have gone on to do noteworthy things. As of October 2020, 61 Nobel laureates were either faculty members, researchers, or students at Cornell. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,592 | , Cornell had 1,639 full-and part-time faculty members affiliated with its main campus, 1,235 affiliated with its New York City divisions, and 34 affiliated with its campus in Qatar. Cornell's faculty for the 2005–06 academic year included three Nobel laureates, a Crafoord Prize winner, two Turing Award winners, a Fiel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,593 | Kurt Lewin taught at Cornell from 1933 to 1935 and is considered the "father of social psychology". Norman Borlaug taught at the university from 1982 to 1988 and is considered the "father of the Green Revolution", being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,594 | Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian and European literature at Cornell between 1948 and 1959. The nominee of the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the authors of the theory of intelligentsia Vitaly Tepikin received the academic medal of Cornell University in 2021. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,595 | Cornell has twice (2008 and 2009) been named a "Great College to Work For" by The Chronicle of Higher Education, due to receiving high ratings in compensation and benefits, connection to institution and pride, faculty-administration relations, job satisfaction, and post-retirement benefits. Many faculty, and president,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,596 | Cornell counted 245,027 living alumni as of August 2008. Its alumni constitute 34 Marshall Scholars and 31 Rhodes Scholars, and Cornell is the only university with three female winners (Pearl S. Buck, Barbara McClintock, and Toni Morrison) of unshared Nobel Prizes among its graduates. Many alumni maintain university ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,597 | Cornell alumni are noted for their accomplishments in public, professional, and corporate life. Lee Teng-hui was the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen was elected to be the first female president of Taiwan, Mario García Menocal was president of Cuba, Jamshid Amuzegar ('50) was prime minister of Iran, Hu Shih (1914) was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,598 | Cornellians in business include: Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill ('55), Goldman Sachs Group Chairman Stephen Friedman ('59), Kraft Foods CEO Irene Rosenfeld ('75, '77, '80), Autodesk CEO Carl Bass ('83), Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini ('84), S.C. Johnson & Son CEO Fisk Johnson ('79, '80, '82, '84, '86), Chevron Chairman Kenneth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
23,599 | In medicine, alumnus Robert Atkins ('55) developed the Atkins Diet, Henry Heimlich ('47) developed the Heimlich maneuver, Wilson Greatbatch ('50) invented the pacemaker, James Maas ('66; also a faculty member) coined the term "power nap", C. Everett Koop ('41) served as Surgeon General of the United States, and Anthony... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 |
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