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Cornell has one of the most diverse varsity athletic programs in the country. It sponsors 36 varsity teams. An NCAA Division I institution, Cornell is a member of the Ivy League and also competes in Eastern College Athletic Conference, the largest athletic conference in North America. In addition, a wide variety of club sports teams have been organized as student organizations under the auspices of the Dean of Students.
Cornell's intramural program includes 30 sports. In addition to such familiar sports such as flag football, squash, or horseshoes , such unusual offerings as "inner tube water polo," and formerly "broomstick polo" have been offered, as well as a sports trivia competition.
Cornell University has 1,550 full-time and part-time academic faculty members, and an additional 1,500 affiliated with its medical divisions. The 2002-03 Cornell faculty included 4 Nobel laureates, a Crafoord Prize winner, a Legion of Honor recipient, a World Food Prize winner, 4 National Medal of Science winners, a Wolf Prize winner, 4 MacArthur award winners, 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 6 winners of Alexander von Humboldt Awards, 5 Presidential Early Career Award holders, 25 National Science Foundation CAREER grant holders, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research, a recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award holder, 3 Packard Foundation grant holders, a Searle Scholar, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar, and a NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research) early career award winner.
Former professors include Carl Sagan, Norman Malcolm, Vladimir Nabokov, Hans Bethe, Clinton Rossiter , Richard Feynman, Bill Nye, John Cleese and Allan Bloom.
Cornell's main campus is located in Ithaca, New York; Day Hall, the administration building, is located on East Avenue. The campus itself is situated on a rolling site of 745 acres (3 km˛) on East Hill, overlooking Cayuga Lake and downtown Ithaca two miles (3 km) to the west. The 260 or so major buildings are mostly divided into quads for the Arts, Engineering, and Agriculture, a science lab complex, and the athletic complex.
Central campus is bounded to its north and south by spectacular limestone gorges and waterfalls. Dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and student centers are located on North Campus, north of Fall Creek Gorge, and on West Campus, at the bottom of the Library Slope ("Libe Slope"); after snowfalls, students students like to sled down the Slope on trays from the dining hall. East of the main campus lie the Cornell Plantations, approximately 3,600 acres (15 km˛) encompassing an arboretum and botanical gardens as well as natural woodlands, trails, streams, and gorges. South of Cascadilla Gorge lies the student-oriented Collegetown business district.
The first building, Morrill Hall, was erected in 1868. Cornell's signature landmark is McGraw Tower, which rises 173 feet and 161 steps from the ground. Constructed in 1891 atop Uris Library, it features the Cornell Chimes, 21 bells on which the Cornell chimesmasters play three daily concerts.
Contrasting with the Gothic, Victorian, and Neo-Classical buildings on the Arts Quad is the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art , designed by I. M. Pei. Other notable buildings: Willard Straight Hall, one of the earliest student unions, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, the largest academic building in the eastern United States, and the Statler Hotel, adjacent to and associated with the School of Hotel Administration.
The New York Weill Cornell Medical Center is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It is home to the Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences , which are also affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Sloan-Kettering Institute, and the Columbia University Medical Center.
The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, operated by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is located in Geneva, New York, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the main campus. The facility now comprises 20 major buildings on 130 acres (0.5 km˛) of land, as well as over 700 acres (2.8 km˛) of test plots and other lands devoted to horticultural research. It also operates three substations, Vineyard Research Laboratory in Fredonia, Hudson Valley Laboratory in Highland and the Long Island Horticultural Research Laboratory in Riverhead.
The Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, located in Doha, is housed in a large two-story structure designed by Arata Isozaki .
The Shoals Marine Laboratory, a seasonal marine field station dedicated to undergraduate education and research operated in conjunction with the University of New Hampshire, is located on the 95 acre (0.4 km˛) Appledore Island off the Maine–New Hampshire coast.
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, site of the world's largest radio telescope, is operated by Cornell.
Cornell University maintains facilities in Washington, DC and New York City for its Cornell in Washington, Urban Semester, and Urban Scholars Programs.
Other facilities include
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