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Your gift enriches the lives and pursuits of students and faculty, powering innovation throughout Cornell and beyond. Discover key initiatives that propel us forward — and that critically contribute to our success.

Cornell Bowers is leading the way in artificial intelligence research while ensuring its development is ethical, transparent, and inclusive. Through interdisciplinary research, we collaborate across the university to create AI systems and applications that connect progress to purpose.

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Cornell Bowers faculty are industry experts, knowledgeable in their fields and assured of technology’s potential to advance our current world. Gifts amplify their impact through research, equipment, and startup funding.

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Students at Cornell Bowers share a passion for collaboration, and their approach leads the way in tech innovation. Supporting their experience delivers long-lasting impact through scholarships, fellowships, and experiential learning opportunities.

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Investing in our students is one of the dean’s highest priorities. By increasing the availability of scholarship funding, Cornell Bowers seeks to ensure that the most talented students from all socioeconomic backgrounds are prepared to lead, thrive, and tackle their generation’s greatest challenges.

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Innovation Fund

Every gift to the Innovation Fund provides flexible resources that can be immediately directed to current priorities and emerging opportunities.

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Innovation Fund Dollars at Work

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Enable a student to attend a career-shaping conference.
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Undergraduate Project Team support
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Support CSMore
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Enhance start-up support to attract top-tier, strategic faculty with competitive packages.
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Life-changing opportunities made possible by giving.

Philanthropy enabled Vipin Gunda '25 to attend a conference and develop AI to advance wearable tech — an experience emblematic of the opportunities afforded students through philanthropy.

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Supporting Students

I am extremely grateful for all of the opportunities that Cornell has given me to positively shape the lives of my fellow students.

Destiny Nwafor ’21
2021 Jonathan E. Marx Memorial Senior Prize Winner

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