Majors
What major used to be referred to as ARME?
What is AEM?
Originally known as “Commencement Day,” this festival was halted after a 1971 riot and resurrected in 1975 under its current name.
What is Slope Day?
Each spring, first‑year architecture students parade a hand‑made papier‑mâché version of this mythical creature.
What is dragon?
Known as the “Science Guy,” he graduated from Cornell in 1977 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Who is Bill Nye?
What was impaled on the lightning rod of McGraw (clock) Tower in October 1997, and to this day no one knows exactly who/how they did it?
What is pumpkin?
What major has an mandatory ice cream class?
What was the name of the Duty Free Founder who donated around a billion dollars to Cornell but did not want a building named after him, so instead they named a road after him?
Who is Chuck Feeney?
This nightly musical ritual, inaugurated in 1869 and expanded from nine to twenty‑one bells by 1920, rings out from McGraw Tower.
What are the Cornell Chimes concerts?
This Nobel Prize–winning cytogeneticist, famed for discovering “jumping genes,” earned her PhD from Cornell in 1927. She also has a building on North Campus named after her.
Who is Barbara McClintock?
Until the 1960s, male freshmen were required to wear these red caps—then ceremonially burn them each spring.
What are freshman beanies?
What major is considered the "best" out of the Ivies?
What is CS?
In its inaugural class in 1868, Cornell became the first Ivy League university to admit these students alongside men.
What is women?
Cornell’s official fight song, often blasted at athletic events, is titled this, a nod to a beloved professor’s nickname.
What is “Give My Regards to Davy”?
Though he didn’t finish his degree, he studied journalism at Cornell before going on to write Charlotte’s Web in 1952.
Who is E. B. White?
Many Cornell presidents come from this university.
What is Michigan?
The only U.S. undergraduate program devoted entirely to grape growing and winemaking.
What is Viticulture and Enology?
This Uris Hall collection houses over 100 preserved human brains, including those of suffragist Rosika Schwimmer and its founder, Burt Green Wilder.
What is the Wilder Brain Collection?
Since 1968, Cornell’s choirs and independent groups gather for this annual vocal showdown featuring harmonies, choreography, and fierce competition.
What is the Cornell A Cappella Festival?
He earned an English degree from Cornell in 1974 and later became famous for playing Superman on screen.
Who is Christopher Reeve?
Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology houses the world’s largest archive of wildlife sound recordings, called this library.
What is Macaulay Library?
This major has Kathleen Hefferon as a professor.
What is Microbiology?
One of only five manuscripts in Lincoln’s handwriting, this privately held copy of the Gettysburg Address resides at Cornell’s Carl A. Kroch Library.
What is the Bancroft Copy?
One-third of the undergraduate student body belongs to one of the over 50 recognized communities.
What is sorority and fraternity life or Greek life?
A Cornell ’78 mechanical‐engineering alum, she became the first Black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company when she led Xerox.
Who is Ursula Burns
Established in 1893, this society’s members have included alumni like E. B. White and Bill Nye.
What is Quill and Dagger?