Cornell Research

Extreme Talent. Radical Collaboration. Results That Matter.

Fiscal Year 2018

National Ranking by Research Expenditures

# 13

State Ranking by Research Expenditures

# 1

Cornell Total Research Funding

$1.07 Billion

Top Sources of Federal Funding

National and State Rankings: National Science Foundation, FY 2017
All Other Stats: Cornell University Sponsored Financial Services, FY 2018 (Research Expenditures)

TOP 10 RESEARCH DISCIPLINES

EXTERNAL SPONSORED

Health Sciences $215.6 M

Biological & Biomedical Sciences $192.5 M

Agricultural Sciences $58.3 M

Physics $39.9 M

Other Physical Sciences $30.9 M

Computer & Informational Sciences $21.8 M

Chemistry $17.6 M

Metallurgical & Materials Engineering $12.1 M

Mechanical Engineering $11.6 M

Electrical/Electronic & Communications Engineering $11.1 M

Cornell University Sponsored Financial Services, FY2018 (research expenditures)
Disciplines are defined by the National Science Foundation

Cornell Innovations

New Startup Companies
9

Three in New York State

Dimensional Energy Inc. - Ithaca, New York
Farther Farms Inc. - Ithaca, New York
Geegah LLC - Ithaca, New York


 

Six Worldwide

ABLS IV LLC - Boston, Massachusetts
Computational Textiles Inc. - Little Compton, Rhode Island
Dryfiber LLC - Beverly Hills, California
FloraPulse Co. - Davis, California
Ukko Agro - Toronto, Ontario
Versatope Therapeutics Inc. - Boston, Massachusetts

Commercial Licenses
79
43 Inventions
34 Plants
2 Copyrights
Patents Issued
279

Patents Issued

109 in the United States
170 internationally


 

583 Patents Filed

296 in the United States
287 internationally

New Technologies Disclosed
392
335 Inventions
47 Plants
10 Copyrights
Revenue
$21.8 M
$18.2 M from Licensing
$3.5 M from Patent Expense Reimbursement

Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University, FY 2018



Cornell Distinctions

5

Faculty were inducted into the distinguished national academies in 2018.

Anthony P. Bretscher

Catherine Lord

Lynden A. Archer

Héctor Abruña

Susan R. McCouch

Francesco Monticone

Brett P. Fors

Karthik Sridharan

Jin Suntivich

Paul Friedland

David Yearsley

Deborah Estrin

Yervant Terzian

C.C. Chu

Steven G. Adie

Yoav Artzi

Toby J. Ault

Jeremy M. Baskin

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Nicola Dell

Brett P. Fors

Damian E. Helbling

Song Lin

Matthew J. Paszek

Jamol J. Pender

Brad J. Ramshaw

Karthik Sridharan

Fei Wang

Justin J. Wilson

Ilana L. Brito

Michael C. Niemack

Marcos Simoes-Costa

2019 Grammy Award Nomination for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

The Aizuri String Quartet—with Ariana Kim, Music, College of Arts and Sciences—was nominated for a 2019 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble performance for their debut album Blueprinting.

A Cornell Soil Scientist Celebrated Abroad

Johannes Lehmann, School of Integrative Plant Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences. Lehmann specializes in soil sciences.

American Political Science Association Best Book Award

Sabrina M. Karim, Government, College of Arts and Sciences, along with co-author Kyle Beardsley, won a 2018 American Political Science Association Best Book Award for Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping.

Center for Alkaline-Based Energy Solutions (CABES)

A new Cornell center—Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by the United States Department of Energy at $10.75 million—was established to push forward next-generation fuel cell development, directed by Héctor Abruña, Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Center for Creating Trauma-Informed Residential Settings

Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research received a $2.8 million grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to establish the Center for Creating Trauma-Informed Residential Settings. The new center helps children who have experienced trauma and adversity by implementing and teaching trauma-informed, evidence-based models to their caretakers. Christopher Wildeman, Policy Analysis and Management, College of Human Ecology, is director of the Bronfenbrenner Center.

Cornell Center for Health Equity

Cornell Center for Health Equity was established to bridge Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus to better understand why health outcomes vary among demographic groups—directed by Monika Safford, Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Avery August, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine.

Diabetes Research

Denmark-based pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, the world’s #1 insulin producer, is backing diabetes research in Mingling Ma’s lab, Biological and Environmental Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Science/College of Engineering, with up to $7 million over the next three-plus years.

Ecolectro, a Cornell Startup

Cornell startup Ecolectro received $1.7 million grant from the United Sates Department of Energy to accelerate hydrogen production, a green fuel for the future.

Emerging Scholar Book Award

Andrew J. Hicks, Music/Medieval Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, received the Society of Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar book award for 2018 for Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos (Oxford University Press).

Expanding Computation Capacity for Physics Experiments

Peter Wittich, Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, became part of a $25 million National Science Foundation initiative—leading a Cornell team to expand computation capacity for physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

Funding for Energy Innovation

Geoffrey W. Coates, Chemistry and Chemistry Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, became part of the United States Department of Energy’s $120 million interdisciplinary Energy Innovation initiative to realize next-generation batteries.

National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

Denise N. Green, Fiber Science and Apparel design, College of Human Ecology, and Rachana Kamtekar, Philosophy/Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, received National Endowment for the Humanities Grants totaling $66,000 for preservation and research projects. Green received $6,000, and Kamtekar received $60,000.

The Roper Center

The Roper Center, a non-partisan public opinion data archive, received $1.4 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to construct a Health Opinion Database, perhaps the most comprehensive in the world—directed by Peter K. Enns, Government, College of Arts and Sciences.