President Martha E. Pollack reviews potential outcomes for the fall semester and reaffirms Cornell’s commitment to respecting knowledge and each other.
The science continues to indicate that the university’s approach to an in-person semester is safe and that risk of infection is minimal when the community collectively follows public health guidance, according to Cornell leaders.
Cornell administrators announced that the university would be changing its COVID-19 alert level to yellow following an increase in the number of positive cases on campus.
University leaders announced the launch of a new website that serves as a centralized source of information about campus mental health and well-being, and lauded recent work by the students of the Empathy Assistance & Referral Service.
Cornell’s nearly 50-year-old Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service (EARS) will begin offering a new model of support this fall, including peer mentoring, training and outreach.
The spotted lanternfly – an invasive, destructive pest with a wide range of hosts including grapes, apples, hops, maple and walnut – has spread to a growing number of counties in New York state.
Zhao, professor of economics at Michigan State University, will begin his appointment as the David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management on July 1.
A $300,000 investment from New York state has paved the way for a new hops breeding program at Cornell AgriTech, which will grow and develop signature New York hops varieties in support of the state’s $3.4 billion craft brewing industry.
