Located at the south end of Cayuga Lake—the largest of the Finger Lakes—Ithaca boasts unsurpassed natural beauty in its gorges, state parks and waterfront.
Collegetown and the Ithaca Commons are a short walk from campus, offering a city atmosphere with an array of shopping, restaurants, cultural activities and nightlife.
Between urban life and alluring countryside, Ithaca has something for everyone to see and do. Several markets throughout Ithaca offer a variety of local wares, from specialty foods and baked goods to fine art and handmade crafts. The longest of the Finger Lakes, Cayuga Lake offers stunning views, boating, swimming and so much more. Cayuga Lake is home to dozens of wineries. Ithaca is famous for its gorges. You will be welcomed into the season by foliage that provides stunning scenery for hiking, cider tastings and pumpkin picking.
The city is well-known for its famous gorges, with Ithaca Falls, Cascadilla Gorge, and more than other waterfalls and gorges located within 10 miles of downtown Ithaca. Ithaca has a colorful history, settled in the late 18th century as part of a land grant system for Revolutionary War soldiers; for a brief time, the frontier town was known as Sodom for its supposedly questionable morals.
Apart from its outdoor attractions, Ithaca offers a vibrant college town culture with its two major educational institutions, Cornell University and Ithaca College, overlooking the city from adjacent hills. Cornell University's main campus in Ithaca, New York, occupies 2, acres on an attractive hillside overlooking Cayuga Lake. See some of the sites of the campus in this Cornell University photo tour.
Ithaca College, like Cornell University, sits on a hillside overlooking Cayuga Lake, although the campus is farther from the Ithaca Commons. You can explore the campus in the Ithaca College photo tour. During the school year, roughly half of all Ithaca residents are students.
That combined with the city's beautiful location and excellent dining and cultural opportunities earned it a place among our list of best college towns. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. The show becomes a "you had to be there" moment and recordings of it are a must-have in any fan's collection.
Akwe:kon residence hall opens its doors, becoming the first university residence in the U. In October, a hollowed-out pumpkin appears atop the spire of McGraw Tower, attracting months of international attention. It sits there, unreachable, for five months until workers testing crane equipment accidentally knock it down. The mystery of how the pumpkin made it there to begin with remains unsolved. Twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity land on Mars, embarking on three-month missions led by Cornell astronomy professor Steve Squyres.
Extensive data collected by the rovers in the ten years since have provided new insights into the possibility of water on the red planet and the general composition of Mars. Led by civil and environmental engineer Monroe Weber-Shirk, the project works with students and villagers to bring cost-effective, municipal-scale water treatment technologies to communities in Honduras and now India. A new baroque organ debuts to a full house in Anabel Taylor Chapel. Construction of the massive, 1,pipe instrument—the first in the world to be equipped with wind systems that let it reproduce sounds exactly as Bach and other period composers intended—employed authentic 18th-century techniques.
The campus is a space where graduate students focus on the intersection between technology and entrepreneurship, allowing it to become the urban nexus for fast-tracking tech solutions that have immediate relevance to New York City and the world.
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And all of it in one of the most powerful cities in the world. Cornell in Rome offers students a transformative experience in the disciplines of architecture design, history, and theory; visual arts; art history; urban studies; and Italian language, history, and culture.
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