Exterior of the Feil Family and Weill Family Residence Hall.
New Student Residence Completed
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More than 170 Weill Cornell Medicine leaders, donors, students and alumni gathered on May 1 to celebrate the completion of the institution’s new $260 million student residence.
The Feil Family and Weill Family Residence Hall, located at the northwest corner of 74th Street and York Avenue, greatly expands student residential space and provides aspiring doctors, scientists and health-care leaders with a modern living and learning environment that will enable them to thrive.
“Today is about our students, who are going to be clinicians, scientists and educators,” said Dr. Robert A. Harrington, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University. “The centerpiece of their education is going to be this building. This is where they will come to live; this is where they will come to learn; this is where they will relax.”
The Philip C. Su, M.D. and Wen-Huey L. Su Sky Lounge and Roof Terrace.
The 16-story, 173,000-square-foot residence will house 272 students when it welcomes them in August. It features 163 studio apartments, seven one-bedrooms and 51 two-bedroom apartments, each equipped with a full kitchen, and includes communal spaces for study, collaboration, recreation, fitness and socialization.
A centerpiece of the $1.5 billion We’re Changing Medicine campaign, the Feil Family and Weill Family Residence Hall serves as a testament to the extraordinary generosity of Weill Cornell Medicine’s donors. Lead gifts from Jeffrey Feil and the Feil Family and Joan and Sanford I. Weill and the Weill Family Foundation joined those from nearly 80 other long-time donors and alumni to collectively contribute $122 million toward the building’s construction.
Top from left: Lee Feil, Board of Fellows Vice Chair Jeffrey Feil, Chair Emeritus Sanford I. Weill and Joan Weill cut the ceremonial ribbon for the new student residence; above: Board of Fellows Chair Jessica Bibliowicz (l), with Dean Robert A. Harrington, M.D.
“There’s really no better way to change medicine and make it sustainable than to create a new student residence, where students will have amazing living and learning opportunities,” said Board of Fellows Chair Jessica M. Bibliowicz. “So for the sustainability of health care, medicine and Weill Cornell, I think this is as an exciting day as I can remember.”
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