Rural counties in upstate New York are likely to be the state’s most vulnerable to a COVID-19 outbreak that could strain local health care infrastructure, according to an analysis by Cornell demographers.
A research tracker created by Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication, has helped foster collaboration among social scientists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cornell University has made a $100,000 contribution to help establish a Tompkins County/City of Ithaca COVID-19 Small Business Resiliency Fund to support and stabilize local small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Eric Rebillard, the Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Classics, was one of 175 writers, artists, scholars and scientists named 2020 fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
On the first day of virtual teaching for the Ithaca campus, Cornell instructors led 6,600 Zoom meetings with a total of 89,000 participants. Three weeks of coordinated planning and support led to a smooth start for all-online instruction.
Virtual events and online Cornell resources include a special organ performance, and workshops on workplace health and safety, continuing community-engaged projects and new immigration policy changes.
A project led by Janis Whitlock, research scientist in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, provides a space for people around the world to share stories about life in the age of COVID-19, snapshots that will help researchers understand how people coped during the pandemic.
In a message to the Cornell community, President Martha E. Pollack detailed four principles university leaders will use to guide decisions made in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
