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This 1862 federal act created the land-grant university system Cornell was founded under.
What is the Morrill Act?
This office supports Cornell students with merit-based funding programs like Cornell Tradition, Rawlings Scholars, and Meinig Scholars.
What is the Cornell Commitment?
Cornell was the first U.S. institution where students independently managed this critical health and emergency-response service.
What is CUEMS / a student-run EMS service?
Located at the edge of North Campus, this legendary late-night food truck is famous for mozzarella sticks and keeping students awake and fed since the 1960s.
What is Louie's Lunch/ Food Truck?
This celebrated humorist and writer sharpened his craft at Cornell before penning classics like Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web.
Who is E.B. White?
Cornell was founded as a partnership between Ezra Cornell and this co-founder, who later became the university’s first president.
Who is Andrew Dickson White?
Located alongside the Hub, this federal TRIO program supports local high school students in preparing for college through advising, tutoring, and summer academies.
What is Upward Bound?
Cornell was the first U.S. institution to teach this modern language as part of a regular university curriculum, breaking the classical-only model.
What is modern German?
Built in 1887, this historic Central Campus building is home to advising offices, career services, and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies — and once housed an earlier version of the Einhorn Center.
What is Barnes Hall?
Known for making science fun on public television, this Cornell mechanical engineering alum served as a flight engineer at Boeing before donning the bowtie for a generation of kids.
Who is Bill Nye?
Cornell is home to several senior honor societies, but only this number are historically considered its traditional “secret societies.”
What is three?
Also housed on the 3rd floor of Kennedy Hall, this long-running Cornell partnership offers college-level courses for incarcerated students across New York State
What is CPEP (the Cornell Prison Education Program)?
Cornell established the nation’s first university-affiliated program in this agricultural science, now a major part of CALS research identity.
What is dairy science?
Site of major student activism in the late 1960s — including a famous building takeover.
What is Willard Straight Hall?
Before becoming the first woman of color in space, this astronaut completed her engineering prerequisites at Cornell while preparing for medical school.
Who is Mae Jemison?
Cornell’s original school colors were not carnelian red and white; they were chosen in 1868 but quickly abandoned due to student complaints. What were they?
What are purple and white?
Near the Hub sits this NYSED-funded program designed to increase the number of historically underrepresented students entering STEM and licensed professions.
What is STEP (the Science and Technology Entry Program)?
Cornell was the first American university to teach this subject as a scientific field, rather than a purely literary or moral one — paving the way for modern academic study of meaning, expression, and culture.
What is linguistics?
Constructed in 1875, this building houses the final resting place of Ezra Cornell.
What is Sage Chapel?
This Cornell undergraduate left early to pursue acting full-time, later becoming globally recognized as the man who made audiences believe a superhero could fly.
Who is Christopher Reeve?
Cornell is one of the few Ivy League schools to operate an international medical campus, located in this Middle Eastern country.
What is Qatar?
Across from the Hub is this initiative that partners with faculty across colleges to develop, assess, and strengthen community-engaged academic programs at Cornell.
What is the Engaged College Initiative?
Cornell housed the first U.S. program dedicated to the academic study and preservation of this Indigenous language family, later forming the foundation for major linguistic and anthropological research.
What is the study of the Iroquoian languages?
Built in 1917 and once used to train students in celestial navigation during World War I, this North Campus landmark is still operated by student volunteers and hosts public stargazing nights.
What is Fuertes Observatory?
This Cornell MFA graduate became the first woman to create, write, and star in a major streaming comedy series, earning eight Emmy nominations for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Who is Rachel Brosnahan?