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On May 13, billionaire and philanthropist Robert F. Smith donated $15 million to Cornell's College of Engineering for underrepresented students.
The program awards six merit-based scholarships valued at $100,000 to students attending HBCUs in the U.S. [55] [56] Following this, he donated $50 million to Cornell University, of which $20 million went to Cornell University’s College of Engineering and $10 million in Tech Scholars scholarships for Black Americans and women. This donation ...
It currently grants bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in a variety of engineering and applied science fields, and is the third largest undergraduate college at Cornell by student enrollment. The college offers over 450 engineering courses, and has an annual research budget exceeding US$112 million.
The Atkinson Center supports Cornell University researchers through multiple funds and fellowships: Academic Venture Fund—The Academic Venture Fund (AVF) seeds original, multidisciplinary research that is not likely to find funding elsewhere because the projects are novel, risky, need early data to establish traction, or involve new teams working together.
Cornell University was founded on 27 April 1865, by Ezra Cornell, an entrepreneur and New York State Senator, and Andrew Dickson White, an educator and also a New York State Senator, after the New York State legislature authorized the university as the state's land grant institution. [19]
Cornell Tech is a graduate campus and research center of Cornell University on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, New York City.It provides courses in technology, business, and design, and includes the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, a partnership between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, NewFounded in 1946, the school was renamed in 1984 to honor Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of S.C. Johnson & Son, following a landmark $20 million endowment from his family which was the largest gift ever made to a business school at the ...
[6] Cornell's self-education and hard work would lead him to the conclusion that the greatest end for his philanthropy was in the need of colleges for the teaching of practical pursuits such as agriculture, the applied sciences, veterinary medicine and engineering, and in finding opportunities for the poor to attain such an education.