Quick Facts

Cornell Research

Funding, FY 2012
Total Funding
$802M
Federal Sponsored Funding
$466M
Nonfederal Sponsored Funding
$130.9M
Cornell rank in NSF university research funding
3
Top Sources of Funding for Cornell Research
Department of Health and Human Services: $233M
National Science Foundation: $130M
 
Innovations, FY 2013
New technologies disclosed
395
Patents filed
581
Patents issued
170
Licenses negotiated
162
New companies formed
8
Start-ups formed between FY 2011 and FY 2013
25
 
Faculty, FY 2013
Cornell Faculty Memberships in the National Academies in FY 2013
209
Cornell faculty members were elected to the national academies between 2010 and 2013
31
American Philosophical Society
14
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
94
National Academy of Sciences
45
National Academy of Engineering
29
Institute of Medicine
23
American Academy of Arts and Letters
4
John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, Genius Award
2
 
More Distinctions
President’s National Medal of Science (faculty): 7
MacArthur Genius Award (faculty): 9
Nobel Prize (faculty and alumni): 41
 
Cornell’s Young Faculty in 2012
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE): 2
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Awards: 12
Other young investigator awards: 7
(DARPA Young Faculty Award, Air Force Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award)
 
Interdisciplinary Research Centers and Facilities
Number of Centers, Institutes, and Laboratories
100+
National Research Centers
Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
New Cornell Center
Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute is a new, unique multidisciplinary translational neuroscience research hub at Weill Cornell Medical College, established April 2013.
 
State-of-the Art Research and Teaching Facilities
Duffield Hall (2004)
Interdisciplinary Nanotechnology
Research and Education
Weill Hall (2008):
Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology
Biomedical Engineering
McGovern Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences
Physical Sciences Building (2010):
Applied and Engineering Physics
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Physics
Milstein Hall (2011)
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Human Ecology Building (2011)
Stocking Hall (2013)
Food Science
Gates Hall (2014)
Computing and Information Science
Law School Extension (2014)
Klarman Hall (2015)
Humanities
Cornell NYC Tech Campus (2017)
Cornell graduate science and technology education and entrepreneurship
 
Cornell’s Rank Among World Universities, 2013
Computer Science
7
Physics
10
Overall
13
Source: Academic Ranking of World Universities
Methodology includes indicators of research output, e.g. highly-cited research, number of published papers, and prizes and medals.