National Ranking by Research Expenditures

# 14

State Ranking by Research Expenditures

# 1

Cornell Total Research Funding

$1.18 Billion

Top Sources of Federal Funding

Source: National Science Foundation FY 2021, except Top Sources of Federal Funding from Cornell Research Expenditures FY 2022

TOP 10 RESEARCH DISCIPLINES

BY EXTERNAL FUNDING AWARDED

Health Sciences $279.7M

Biological & Biomedical Sciences $242.6M

Agricultural Sciences $50.7M

Physics $43.1M

Chemistry $22.8M

Other Physical Sciences $22.6M

Computer & Information Sciences $22.5M

Electrical/Electronic & Communications Engineering $15.1M

Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering $14.7M

Other Non-Science & Engineering Fields $14.6M

Source: Cornell Research Expenditures FY 2022
Disciplines defined by the National Science Foundation

Ranking Cornell Research

#14

Nationally

By Research Expenditures

Nationally # 14

By Research Expenditures

1 Johns Hopkins University

$3.181B*

2 University of California, San Francisco

$1.710B

3 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

$1.640B

4 University of Pennsylvania

$1.632B

5 University of Washington, Seattle

$1.489B

6 University of California, Los Angeles

$1.455B

7 University of California, San Diego

$1.425B

8 University of Wisconsin, Madison

$1.380B

9 Stanford University

$1.274B

10 Harvard University

$1.254B

11 Duke University

$1.238B

12 The Ohio State University

$1.236B

13 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

$1.206B

14 Cornell University

$1.184B

15 Yale University

$1.165B

16 Texas A&M University, College Station and Health Science Center

$1.148B

17 University of Maryland**

$1.142B

18 University of Pittsburgh

$1.135B

19 University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

$1.125B

20 Georgia Institute of Technology

$1.114B

*Johns Hopkins University includes Applied Physics Laboratory, with $1,949,742 thousand in total R&D expenditures in FY 2021.

**Includes expenditures from the University of Maryland, Baltimore and University of Maryland, College Park campuses.

Source: National Science Foundation FY 2021

In New York State

By Research Expenditures

In New York State #1

By Research Expenditures

1 Cornell University

$1.184B

2 Columbia University in the City of New York

$1.099B

3 New York University

$1.064B

4 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

$820.260M

5 SUNY Polytechnic Institute

$465.273M

Cornell Innovations

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11

New Startup Companies

89

Commercial Licenses and Options

221

Patents Issued

419

New Technologies Disclosed

$36.8M

Revenue

Cornell Innovations

New Startup Companies

Eight in New York State

Forte Protein - Trumansburg, New York
MedExplain - Port Washington, New York
Onasys Controls - New York, New York
Pelex - New York, New York
Radrite - New York, New York
REEgen - Ithaca, New York
Soctera - Ithaca, New York

XenImmune - Armonk, New York

Three Worldwide

Geler - San Francisco, California
KanduPay - Beverly Hills, California
Larkspur - Boston, Massachusetts

Commercial Licenses and Options

46 Inventions
40 Plants
3 Copyrights

Patents Issued

221

Patents Issued

79 in the United States
142 internationally

645 Patents Filed

327 in the United States
318 internationally

New Technologies Disclosed

419

Revenue

$36.8M

$31.7M from Licensing
$5.1M from Patent Expense Reimbursement

Source: Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University FY 2022

7

New Memberships in the National Academies

5

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships

14

National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards

1

U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award

2

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships

1

Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

3

U.S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards

Cornell Distinctions

7

Faculty were inducted into the distinguished national academies in fiscal year 2022.

Cornell University faculty receive top national and international awards and honors. Established faculty are elected to the nation’s prestigious academies, and early career faculty receive National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards—among many other distinctions and recognitions. These distinctions affirm Cornell's excellence in scholarship and discovery. Research of the Cornell faculty translates into technologies and insight that have an extraordinary impact on the wellbeing of our global society.

Jean W. Pape

Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Martha E. Pollack

President, Cornell University; Computer Science/Information Science, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science; Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences

Xingen Lei

Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Christopher B. Barrett

The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management; Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy; Economics, College of Arts and Sciences/ILR School; Global Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Olga Boudker

Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine

Peter Lepage

Physics, College of Arts and Sciences

Gregory Martin

School of Integrative Plant Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

More Distinctions

Lawrence Bonassar

Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering/Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering

Itai Cohen

Physics, College of Arts and Sciences

Michelle Delco

Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

Lisa Fortier

Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

Pamela Chang

Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine/ Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz

Neurobiology and Behavior, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/College of Arts and Sciences

Daniel Halpern-Leistner

Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences

Peter McMahon

Applied and Engineering Physics, College of Engineering

Claire Cardie

Computer Science/Information Science, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Paula Cohen

Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

J.C. Séamus Davis

Physics, College of Arts and Sciences

Jun (Kelly) Liu

Molecular Biology and Genetics, College of Arts and Sciences

Prabhu Pingali

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Chris Schaffer

Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

Huili (Grace) Xing

Electrical and Computer Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering

Tanzeem Choudhury

Information Science, Cornell Tech/Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Robert D. Kleinberg

Computer Science, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Steve Marschner

Computer Science, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Joseph F. Fins

Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Rainu Kaushal

Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Alejandro L. Madrid

Music, College of Arts and Sciences

Valzhyna Mort

Literatures in English, College of Arts and Sciences

Lee Humphreys '99

Communication, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Jeff Niederdeppe

Communication, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy

Christopher Hernandez

Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering

Fatma Baytar

Human Centered Design, College of Human Ecology

Austin Benson

Computer Science, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Julia Dshemuchadse

Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering

Jillian Goldfarb

Biological and Environmental Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/College of Engineering

Bharath Hariharan

Computer Science, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Meredith Holgerson

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/College of Arts and Sciences

Justin Hsu

Computer Science, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Sabrina Karim

Government, College of Arts and Sciences

Qi Li

Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering

Phillip Milner

Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

Nils Napp

Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering

Samitha Samaranayake

Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering

Scott Steinschneider

Biological and Environmental Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/College of Engineering

Rong Yang

Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Engineering

Peter McMahon

Applied and Engineering Physics, College of Engineering

Francesco Monticone

Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering

Atieh Moridi

Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering

Peter McMahon

Applied and Engineering Physics, College of Engineering

Csaba Csáki

Physics, College of Arts and Sciences

Eanna Flanagan

Physics, College of Arts and Sciences

Eun-Ah Kim

Physics, College of Arts and Sciences

Laurent Saloff-Coste

Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences

Michael Stillman

Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences

Alex Townsend

Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences

Andrew Musser

Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

Selected Notables

ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, Association for Computing Machinery

Carla P. Gomes

Computer Science, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Academy Film Scholar, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Samantha N. Sheppard

Performing and Media Arts, College of Arts and Sciences

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award, Modern Language Association

Marilyn Migiel

Romance Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society

Todd Hyster

Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

Athena Lecturer Award, Association for Computing Machinery

Éva Tardos

Computer Science, Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science; Operations Research and Information Engineering, College of Engineering

Dirac Medal of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

Saul Teukolsky

Physics, College of Arts and Sciences

Einstein Foundation Berlin Award for Promoting Quality in Research

Paul Ginsparg

Physics, College of Arts and Sciences

George Washington Prize

Mary Beth Norton

History, College of Arts and Sciences

Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society

Justin T. Wilson

Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

IEEE John von Neumann Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Deborah Estrin

Computer Science, Cornell Tech/Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medicine

Latin Grammy Award, Best Classical Contemporary Composition

Roberto Sierra

Music, College of Arts and Sciences

National Fresenius Award, Phi Lambda Upsilon

Song Lin

Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

Ribera del Duero Prize

Liliana Colanzi

Romance Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Morten H. Christiansen

Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences

Stockholm Water Prize, Stockholm International Water Institute

Wilfried Brutsaert

Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering

Cornell Research and Innovation

# 14

# 1

$1.18 Billion

TOTAL FUNDING BY CORNELL DIVISION

TOTAL EXTERNAL FUNDING

SPONSORED FUNDING BY FEDERAL AGENCIES

FUNDING BY OTHER SOURCES

TOTAL EXTERNAL SPONSORED FUNDING

TOP 10 RESEARCH DISCIPLINES

BY EXTERNAL FUNDING AWARDED

Ranking Cornell Research

Nationally

Nationally # 14

$3.181B*

$1.710B

$1.640B

$1.632B

$1.489B

$1.455B

$1.425B

$1.380B

$1.274B

$1.254B

$1.238B

$1.236B

$1.206B

$1.184B

$1.165B

$1.148B

$1.142B

$1.135B

$1.125B

$1.114B

In New York State

In New York State #1

$1.184B

$1.099B

$1.064B

$820.260M

$465.273M

Cornell Innovations

11

89

221

419

$36.8M

Cornell Innovations

7

New Memberships in the National Academies

5

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships

14

National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards

1

U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award

2

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships

1

Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

3

U.S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards

Cornell Distinctions

7

Jean W. Pape

Martha E. Pollack

Xingen Lei

Christopher B. Barrett

Olga Boudker

Peter Lepage

Gregory Martin

More Distinctions

Lawrence Bonassar

Itai Cohen

Michelle Delco

Lisa Fortier

Pamela Chang

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz

Daniel Halpern-Leistner

Peter McMahon