As Cornell’s Ithaca campus readies for its first day of virtual instruction April 6, the Chronicle spoke with university leaders about their perspectives on this altered landscape.
The coronavirus pandemic has challenged Cornell students, as they’ve waited for online instruction to begin April 6. But many are responding with resilience, staying sharp and taking care of others, and themselves.
In a virtual forum sponsored by the Employee Assembly, university leaders said recent steps to contain costs sought to preserve jobs while addressing shortfalls prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two professors have spearheaded a project to get donated tablet computers to patients at Cayuga Medical Center who are isolated from loved ones because of COVID-19.
As Cornell University Library’s physical spaces remain temporarily closed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, librarians are opening digital doors for Cornell’s community of scholars.
Cornell researchers in fiber science and apparel design are putting their knowledge and energies into keeping health care personnel on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic from becoming patients themselves.
Virtual events and resources at Cornell include: Images of Dragon Days past; Cornell experts discuss COVID-19; “Cosmos” and spotlight on women artists at the Johnson Museum; student theater and film updates; and a citizen science project surveying breeding birds.
Cornell researchers have developed an automated system that uses machine learning, data analysis and human feedback to automatically verify statistical claims about the new coronavirus.
For decades, Cornell archaeologists have been excavating at Sardis, Turkey. A new lecture series to spotlight that work launched March 6 with the excavation’s current director, Nicholas D. Cahill, professor of Greek and Roman art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
