Campaign Priority 3: Facilities
Already among the world's most beautiful, Cornell's campus must now be transformed for 21st-century research, teaching, learning, and living.
Our Funding Needs for Facilities:
New research and teaching buildings—to furnish the best possible environment for education and research, attract and empower the world's top faculty and students, and build a solid foundation for solving the world’s most complex problems. Top priorities include:
- Joan and Sanford I.Weill Hall for life sciences technology
- Physical Sciences Building
- Computing and Information Sciences campus, anchored by Gates Hall
- Weill Medical College Biomedical Research Building
- Milstein Hall
Expansions and upgrades—to equip cherished historical buildings for new ways of teaching and learning, overcome a shortage of classroom and office space, and accommodate the surge in new research directions across Cornell. Renovation needs include:
- Arts Quad building improvements and upgrades
- Johnson Museum expansion and renovation
- Bailey Hall plaza beautification
Living-learning spaces— to redefine undergraduate residential life and improve student services by creating settings for learning, leadership, service, and recreation outside the classroom. The projects include:
- Residential Initiative on West Campus with the completion of five new houses
- Renovations to Helen Newman Hall on North Campus
Shared science facilities are extremely important. They allow faculty and students to mix on the experimental floors. Look at the connections between chemistry, physics, applied engineering physics, material science—these kinds of intersections and weavings happen all the time. That's why I like being here.