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BIG (RED) DATA Snapshots of campus life, by the numbers

Research by Melissa Sarmiento ’16 LINDSAY FRANCE / UP

Average annual number of sunny days in Ithaca: 155 Average yearly snowfall, in inches: 64.4

How high Cornell is, in feet, above Cayuga’s waters: 433 Estimated distance, in miles, of the view from the top of the Johnson Museum: 15-20

Number of undergrads who studied abroad in 2013–14: 487 Approximate number of countries they went to: 50

Number of apple varieties developed at Cornell: Estimated number of living alumni: Number of shows the Grateful Dead played 66 at : 255,000 Gallons of ice cream 3 produced at the Cornell Number of times the Dalai Lama has Dairy last year: spoken on campus: 25,000 2 Pounds of coffee purchased by Cornell Dining in 2014: 33,259

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LISA BANLAKI FRANK

Year that the first female student, Jennie Spencer, enrolled: 1870 Number of semesters before she dropped out: less than 1 Year of the first graduating class that included women: 1873 Number of women who graduated that year: Weight of a tuba (officially, a sousaphone) in the Big Red Marching band: 1 22.4 lbs. Number of seats in Schoellkopf Stadium: 25,597 Largest crowd on record to attend a Big Red football game (vs. the University of Michigan in 1951): 35,300+ Number of live bears who served as Touchdown: 4 P U

Gender split in the Number of Nobel Class of 2018:

laureates who Percentage of male students in 1946–47 51.1% women attended Cornell: who were military veterans: 48.9% men Percentage of 77% applicants for the 16 class who were accepted:

JASON KOSKI / UP 14% Number of countries represented Number of bells in in the class McGraw Tower: 51 21 Percentage of the Weeks of practice class who identify as required to become a students of color: chimesmaster: JASON KOSKI / UP 42.9% 10 Percentage who are underrepresented minorities: 21.7%

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Years that Vladimir Number of alumni who Nabokov taught at have served in the U.S. Order of Cornell among Cornell: Senate or House of 1948-59 American campuses Representatives, as in establishing a gay rights group: compiled by Wikipedia: 2nd 53

Number of people Number of buildings on the Ithaca campus interred in : that have been LEED certified for 21 environmental friendliness: 15 Percentage of the campus’s annual energy Total number of students who use expected to be supplied by its new solar array: matriculated in 1868: 1% 412 Year by which the University has pledged Number of people in the University’s to become carbon neutral: first graduating class (consisting entirely of 2035 transfer students) in 1869: LISA BANLAKI FRANK 8 Number who earned undergrad degrees in 2014: 3,691 Number of master’s students enrolled in ’s first class: 8

Number of faculty in 1868, not counting President A. D. White: 26 In 2013: Number of languages represented on the “Golden Record,” the message from Earth that astronomy 1,628 professor Carl Sagan designed for the Percentage of the faculty Voyager spacecraft: expected to retire in the next decade: 55 more than 50%

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LINDSAY FRANCE / UP

Cost to attend Cornell in 1872–73, including tuition ($45) and other Age of A. D. White expenses ($240): when he became Cornell’s first president: $285 34 Cost approximated in today’s dollars: Number of Ivies that will have female $5,500 presidents once Cost to attend in Elizabeth Garrett 2014–15, including takes office: tuition and fees 4 ($31,146 statutory; $47,286 endowed) and other expenses ($16,318): $47,464 Number of guestrooms statutory in the Statler Hotel: $63,604 153 endowed Total amount of externally funded

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Distance around the loop of Cornell’s particle accelerator: Trips around Lynah Rink required for the Zamboni to resurface the ice: 768 meters 7 Number of hats that “Zamboni Dave” Nulle owns for use as costumes: Percentage of current undergrads receiving 300+ grant aid from the University: Year that Big Red hockey fans first threw 50% fish on the ice at the Harvard game: Cornell’s endowment as of October 2014: 1973 $6.2 billion

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