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Endowed professorships or fellowships provide permanent
support for Cornell faculty and students.
Term professorships and fellowships provide “bridge” funding for a professor
or graduate student for a designated period of time, up to three years for
professorships and four years for graduate fellowships.
Gifts to support term professorships provide “bridging funds” – for salary and
benefits – until such time as a permanent budget line becomes available or an
endowment gift is made. This support is particularly important in the Life
Sciences as a way to recruit leading teachers and researchers in advance of
faculty retirements, thus maintaining the momentum of Cornell’s successful
research programs.
Gifts to support term fellowships will provide much-needed annual support to graduate
students in a wide range of Life Sciences-related fields.
A donor who makes a gift to establish a term professorship or graduate fellowship may
later choose to create a permanently endowed professorship or fellowship. If that decision
is made, the total amount needed to establish the endowment will be reduced by
the amount already given to support the term professorship or fellowship.
Additional naming opportunities related to “People” may be found in the “Naming Opportunities –
Programs” section of this document.
Professorships - Term and Endowed |
Named Term Professorships
(provides funding for salary
and benefits for 2-3 years) |
varies, $150,000 to $250,000 per year |
| Named Endowed Professorships |
| Assistant Professor |
$1 million |
| Associate or Full Professor (tenured) |
$2 million |
| Senior Professor |
$3 million |
Graduate Fellowships - Term and Endowed
| Named Term Graduate Fellowships |
$50,000 per year |
| Named Endowed Fellowships |
There are several naming opportunities related to endowed graduate fellowships,
which will provide perpetual support to future generations of Cornell graduate students.
The following endowments are named after well-known Cornellians, all of whom are among
Cornell’s Nobel Laureates and/or Pulitzer Prize recipients.
Fellowships may be designated to assist students in a field of study of the donor’s
choosing. Individuals creating fellowships may choose to keep the name of the Fellowship
as listed below, add their name, or replace the name with another, as a way to honor a
family member, friend, or teacher. |
Professor Barbara Cooper Summer Stipend for Research and Travel
Barbara Cooper, the first woman to be appointed a professor of physics at Cornell, was a
well-respected researcher and member of the Cornell faculty until her untimely death in 1999. |
$25,000 |
The Pearl S. Buck Graduate Fellowship
Pearl Buck, a graduate alumna (M.A. in English, 1925), won both a Pulitzer Prize
(1932) and Nobel Prize for Literature (1938). |
$50,000 |
The Professor Hans Bethe Graduate Fellowship
Cornell Professor Emeritus Dr. Bethe was appointed to the faculty in the College of
Arts and Sciences in 1935. He has been honored around the world, including the Nobel
Laureate (Physics, 1967), for his accomplishments in astrophysics and nuclear physics. |
$100,000 |
The Toni Morrison Graduate Fellowship
Toni Morrison is a graduate alumna (A.M. in English 1955) who is an author and winner
of both the Pulitzer Prize (1988) and Nobel Prize for Literature (1993). |
$250,000 |
The Professor Barbara McClintock Graduate Fellowship
Barbara McClintock is the only “Triple Red” Cornell Nobel Laureate, winning the
Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine (1983). She was a ground-breaking genetics researcher
who received her B.S. in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (1923), A.M. in the
College of Arts and Sciences (1925) and Ph.D. in Agriculture and Life Sciences (1927). |
$500,000 |
The Andrew Dickson White Graduate Fellowship
Andrew Dickinson White – scholar, philanthropist, and statesman – was the first
president of Cornell. |
$750,000 |
The Ezra Cornell Graduate Fellowship
This named fellowship honors Ezra Cornell’s vision, determination and financial
commitment that “…would found a university where any person can find instruction in
any study.” |
$1,000,000 |
The Cornell University Post-Doctoral Fellowship
This prestigious fellowship provides full-support to one post-doctoral fellow annually. |
$1,000,000 |
The Hans Bethe Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
This named fellowship program honors Hans Bethe, one of the great scientists and statesmen of the 20th century, appointed to the faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1935. Each fellowship would be awarded for 3 years, with one new appointment every year, which would mean 3 fellows fully supported in residence at one time. |
$5,000,000 |
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Other Positions |
| Research Facility Engineer |
| Research facilities (Various) |
$1.5 million |
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With Challenge |
Full Funding |
Duffield Hall
(Challenge-match-eligible) |
$750,000 |
$1.5 million |
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| Lab Support Associate |
| Other Research facilities (Various) |
$1 million |
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Whith Challenge |
Full Funding |
Duffield Hall
(Challenge-match-eligible) |
$ 500,000 |
$ 1 million |
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