The Report (FY 2010) — Quick Facts

Total Funding for Cornell Research: $764 million
Top Sources of Funding for Cornell Research: Department of Health and Human Services: $223 million; National Science Foundation: $142 million
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA): Funds: $162 million; Awards: 276; Jobs created or retained: 326.57 (FTEs); Totals for the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medical College

Funding Graduate Education: Total funds: $49 million; Federal: $31 million; Nonfederal sponsored: $5 million; Cornell appropriated: $12 million; New York State: $600,000; Funds include stipend and tuition
Number of Graduate Students in Organized Research: 1,907; Primarily graduate research assistants

Cornell Innovations and Patents: New companies formed: 12, highest annual number ever at Cornell; Licenses negotiated: 114, highest annual number ever of commercial licenses at Cornell; Patents issued: 140; New technologies disclosed: 338; Patents filed: 420

Cornell Faculty in the National Academies: American Philosophical Society: 14; American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 90; National Academy of Sciences: 45; National Academy of Engineering: 29; Institute of Medicine: 18; American Academy of Arts and Letters: 4; Total Memberships
Cornell’s Young Faculty: NSF Faculty Early Career Development Awards: 10; Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE): 1; National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Awards: 3; Other young investigator awards—DARPA Young Faculty Award, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Young Investigator Award, Air Force Young Investigator Award, Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, Department of Energy Early Career Research Awards: 9
Distinguished Cornellians: President’s National Medal of Science, Faculty: 7; MacArthur Genius Award, Faculty: 7; Nobel Prize, Faculty or alumni: 40

Cornell Interdisciplinary Research Centers, Institutes, and Laboratories: Number of centers, institutes, and laboratories: Over 100
National research centers:: Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility; National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center; Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
New Cornell centers:: Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis; Energy Materials Center; David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

New and Recent State-of-the Art Research and Teaching Facilities
Physical Sciences Building (2010):: Applied and Engineering Physics; Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Physics
Weill Hall (2008):: Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology; Biomedical Engineering; McGovern Innovation Center
Duffield Hall (2004):: Interdisciplinary Nanotechnology Research and Education
Milstein Hall (in progress for completion):: Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

Research Division/Office of the Vice Provost for Research

Composition: Three national research centers, 14 other research centers, 4 research administration service units, and a central administrative unit

Staff: Approximately 1,000 academic and nonacademic staff

Chief administrator: Senior Vice Provost For Research

Note: All statistics are FY 2010.

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The Report ^{(FY 2010)}