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College of Arts and Sciences

$300

purchases a printer for the Astronomy Lab course

$500

funds a new Teaching Astronomy slide collection

$500

provides a stipend for independent field work by honors students in psychology through the Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Program

$7500

buys a tuba or bassoon for the Department of Music

$1000

purchases a Global Positioning System Clock for the Hartung-Boothroyd Observatory

$2,000

installs an antennae system to receive international broadcasts via satellite for the Language Center

$2,500

provides a stipend for a Dance Concert Series guest choreographer in the Center for Theater Arts

$2,500

buys a tenor saxophone for the Cornell University Bands

$2,500

funds a summer grant for a second-year MFA poet or fiction writer to complete his/her manuscript; total of 8 students

$3,000

purchases a VCR and other video equipment for opera and history courses

$3,000

provides a stipend for undergraduate summer research assistants in various departments

$10,000

endows a named, yearly graduate student award for excellence in teaching and research in the new Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

$10,000

buys a LCD projector to project images from the web and CD-ROMs for classroom instruction in the Department of History of Art

$10,000

purchases a collection of videotape documentaries from the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and the History Channel, to be used in classroom instruction by the History Department

$10,000

installs a portable fume hood for chemistry demonstrations in Baker 200 for the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

$20,000

replaces 16 antiquated microscopes in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

$20,000

establishes an endowment for an annual lecture on the history of the biomedical sciences in the Department of Science and Technology

$20,000

funds an endowment in the Women's Studies Program to support an undergraduate off-campus research project

$20,000

extends teaching beyond the classroom through the English Department's Undergraduate Opportunity Fund; students visit museums, libraries, and theater

$25,000

provides an endowment fund to help German Studies senior and graduate students conduct research for honors theses and dissertations in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland

$25,000

enables undergraduate anthropologists to conduct their first independent research by creating a named endowed fund

$25,000

endows a fund in the Department of Mathematics for an annual lecture at Cornell featuring an outstanding mathematician


For more information or to make a gift, please contact:

Carol True-Palmer
Director, Alumni Affairs and Development
(607) 255-9885

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