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Health Promoting Campus

Cornell University's commitment: People. Places. Planet.

Health Promoting Campus

As a Health Promoting Campus, our vision is to create and sustain a diverse, welcoming, and inclusive culture in which students, staff, and faculty can flourish. This culture is supportive of holistic individual, social, and ecological wellbeing. Read more about Cornell's Wellbeing Vision and Mission.

Quinn Rinkus sitting in stands by pool

Managing well-being and competing priorities

Cornell student-athlete Quinn Rinkus '26 shares her experiences and how she manages her well-being and competing priorities with a positive mindset.

Students discuss finding connection on campus.

Finding connection on campus

Students share what is was like when they first arrived at Cornell and how they went about finding connection and building community.

Interim President Kotlikoff talks about the Okanagan Charter

About the Okanagan Charter

Interim President Kotlikoff and other university leaders discuss what signing the Okanagan Charter means for Cornell. 

Students in the Cornell Botanic Gardens' Learning by Leading program work on the new medicinal garden at Onondaga Nation School in Nedrow, New York.

Medicinal garden at Onondaga Nation School grows opportunity

The garden - a collaboration between Onondaga Nation and Cornell Botanic Gardens - will enable Onondaga Nation School to incorporate more lessons from and about their own culture.

Dr. Robert M. Califf, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, center; with moderators Rachel Dunifon, the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology, left; and Krystyn Van Vliet, vice president for research and innovation, right.

FDA commissioner in talk urges Cornell community to focus on US health

The fireside chat was part of a two-day visit by Dr. Robert M. Califf, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, who focused on medicine and health care innovations.

Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways

Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways

A research team in the Cornell's College of Human Ecology has developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another.