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Admissions and Financial Aid

Undergraduate Admissions Office information sessions: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 11 a.m., Biotechnology Bldg. Group sessions conducted by staff members provide information about academic programs, financial aid, the admission process, and university life. Sessions last approximately one hour. Additionally, appointments may be scheduled in advance with the director of admissions relations in the Division of Alumni Affairs and Development, 626 Thurston Avenue, to discuss the college selection process, application procedure, and admissions issues. For further information, call 255-7035. The following colleges hold admissions sessions during reunion weekend:

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous will hold special meetings during reunion weekend for alumni and their guests. The meetings are open and will be held in 314 Anabel Taylor Hall on Thursday at 12:15 and Friday at 12:15 p.m. and 4:30. Saturday at 4:30 p.m. For more information about additinal meeting times and place, call 273-1541.

All-Alumni Affair

Campus Information and Visitor Relations (CIVR)

Revisit the Cornell campus with a student-guided tour illustrating Cornell's roles as an undergraduate college, a national research university, and the land grant institution of New York State. Please see the descriptions below to choose which tour you'd like to take. Note that some tours are by bus, while others are walking tours. Bus and historic walking tours depart from Barton Hall (across from the Statler Hotel). Campus walking tours leave from the Day Hall main lobby. For more information, call the Information and Referral Center, 254-INFO.

Career Services

Class Forums

All alumni and guests are welcome to join the classes for the following forums:

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

College of Arts and Sciences

College of Engineering

College of Human Ecology

College of Veterinary Medicine

College/Department Breakfasts

Alumni are encouraged to attend their college breakfast. A variety of breakfast programs have been planned for returning alumni and their guests. Colleges and schools holding breakfasts are listed below.

Cornell Abroad

Cornell Chimes

They say that before Cornell students graduate, they should take at least one trip to the top of McGraw Tower to see a live chimes concert and admire the panoramic views. Did you ever make the climb? Have you visited the tower recently? Visitors are welcome at any of our concerts or at our open house.

Cornell Council for the Arts

Cornell Hillel

Cornell Hillel strives to facilitate positive and meaningful Jewish experiences that are relevant to the lives of all Jewish Cornell undergraduate and graduate students. Through our student leaders and professional staff, Cornell Hillel inspires a pluralistic, vibrant, and diverse Jewish campus culture - an invaluable part of the Cornell experience.

Cornell Law School

Cornell Mosaic Diversity Forum

Cornell NanoScale Facility

Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) is one of the leading nanotechnology facilities in the country. Come and learn about the promise of nanotechnology and Cornell's role in this exciting field.

Cornell Native American Alumni Association

Cornell Plantations

Cornell Plantations is the botanical garden, arboretum, and natural areas of Cornell University. Many gardens are already a mass of color during Reunion rhododendrons, iris, and magnolias should be in full bloom, and you'll still find many spring wildflowers in the Mundy Wildflower Garden and natural areas. Stop by our booth in Barton Hall or the Lewis Education Center to pick up a visitor map and talk to our staff about the best places to stroll, hike, or just relax! Shuttle service will be offered from Barton Hall to the botanical garden every half hour.

Cornell Store

Cornell United Religious Work (CURW)

Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

The Cornell University Women's Chorus and Men's Glee Club are two of the oldest student-run organizations at Cornell University. The members of the Chorus and Glee Club represent students from all 11 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at Cornell who share a passion for music. The groups perform their own unique repertoire and collaborate annually on a major work. Their repertoire ranges from liturgical settings to folk songs, from works of the Renaissance period to contemporary music. Under the direction of Professor Scott Tucker, each group annually commissions a new choral piece for performance. The groups have a long-standing tradition of performance tours, including trips to Russia, Brazil, Italy, England, Singapore, and Venezuela.

Cornell University Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association (CUGALA)

Cornell University Library

If you haven't been back to Cornell in recent years, take time now to visit some of it's 18 libraries. Stop by Libe Café on the first floor of Olin Library and enjoy a snack as you look out over the Arts Quad or Manndible Cafe in Mann Library, Cornell's sustainable eatery. Use one of more than 50 public computer workstations in Olin or Uris to explore Cornell's digital library or surf the web (hundreds more workstations are available in other libraries and computer labs across campus). Check out your favorite former study spots A. D. White Library and the "cocktail lounge" in Uris, the beautiful new Adelson Library at the Lab of Ornithology, and the newly renovated Mann Library. This weekend, we offer alumni a variety of intellectual,cultural, and social activities and events that showcase why Cornell University Library is truly the "heart of the university."

Cornell University ROTC

Cornell in Washington Program

Cornelliana Night

Department of Astronomy

Department of Athletics and Physical Education

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Understanding of Earth's system is essential to the prosperity and future of our society. Our graduates, past and future, are leaders in the application of earth sciences to betterment of life, in setting public policy, in educating an Earth-savvy public, and in better understanding the Earth system.

Experience the Finger Lakes

Sample a couple of favorite tours around and about the gorges, Ithaca, and the Finger Lakes wineries. Cornell alums who are part of the Cornell Class Dues Payer Rewards program get 15% off the tour when they present us with their rewards coupon. Discount group pricing for tours available on request. To reserve your space, call 233-4818 or visit www.ExperienceFingerLakes.com/exp_tour_cornellreunion.html. All tours are limited to 14 guests.

Far Above...The Campaign for Cornell, Endowment Discussion

Please join Paul Gould '67, University Trustee and Chairman of the Board's Investment Committee, and James H.C. Walsh, Chief Investment Officer at Cornell, as they talk about endowment management and investment strategies in this challenging environment

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Considered one of the finest university art museums in the country, the Johnson Museum brings the art of the world to Cornell. One-hour tours will feature highlights of the permanent collections and special exhibitions, including Paper Treasures, gifts from this year's Reunion classes to the Museum's collection of modern and contemporary works on paper; Contemporary Art from the Nora Smokler Barron '59 Collection, with works by Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, and many others; photographs by Daniel Nadler '54; this year's undergraduate History of Art Majors' Society exhibition, Unfolding Process; large woodcut prints by Merrill Shatzman; and modern Japanese prints. Special Reunion museum hours are Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.

ILR

Johnson Graduate School of Management

Lab of Ornithology

Come and visit the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity at Sapsucker Woods. The center features the Morgens Observatory with its spectacular views of Sapsucker Woods Pond, a surroundsound movie theatre, a working sound studio, the Williams Gallery of North American bird art, interactive bird identification exhibits, Cornell's 20th library, the Allen Tree House, and a Wild Birds Unlimited Gift Shop. Take this opportunity to visit the lab with your family and friends, introduce them to the wonderful world of birds, and take them on our foot-friendly trails and boardwalks through Sapsucker Woods.

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

The Einaudi Center is the major hub of international activity at Cornell, providing a home to 19 international programs and a forum for a broad dialogue that cuts across scholary disciplines. Its goal is to help bring about a truly international university at Cornell.

Olin Lecture

Recreational Activities

Reunion Run

Reunion Tents

Savage Club Show

School of Hotel Administration

The Statler Hotel: During Reunion 2009, this Cornell teaching hotel will serve as a center of hospitality in the heart of the campus for returning alumni. In addition to providing lodging and class headquarters for several of Cornell¿s most senior classes, the hotel¿s general manager, Rick Adie¿75, invites you to stop by the Statler Loew¿s Lobby and lounge when you are looking for a cool place to relax, refresh, and socialize during a break from all the activities planned for you by your classes and the university.

Singles' Reception

State of the University Address

Student Agencies, Inc.

Student and Academic Services

Student and Academic Services oversees more than a dozen programs and services related to student life outside of the classroom: Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, West Campus House System, First-Year Experience, Athletics and Physical Education, Public Service Center, Dean of Students, Gannett: University Health Services, Cornell Commitment, Registrar, Campus Life, Career Services, Learning Strategies Center, and Internal Transfer Division.

The Cornell Alumni Association of Ithaca Area

University Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance

Van Cleef Memorial Dinner

WVBR-FM: 93.5

Future Reunion dates

  • June 9-12, 2011
  • June 7-10, 2012
  • June 6-9, 2013