Cornell will require all students, faculty and staff to have a COVID-19 vaccine and booster as part of comprehensive vaccination. The booster requirement must be met by Jan. 31, or 30 days after becoming eligible.
A recent Cornell Tech alumnus is applying his health tech skills to a crowdsourcing app that allows users to share their COVID status, to better inform individuals and health authorities.
Professor of economics Jörg Stoye proposes new methods of deriving the prevalence of a disease when only partial data is available — with applications for epidemiology and public health policy.
While they value in-person interactions, undergraduate students want to keep some of the adaptations developed during online teaching, including online assignment submission and digital question answering, survey research finds.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown humanity a new way to reduce climate change: Nix in-person conventions. Putting meetings online can reduce carbon footprints by 94%, says a Cornell study.
A team including a Cornell researcher has developed a digital “virus” that could piggyback on contact-tracing apps and spread from smartphone to smartphone in real time, helping policymakers predict COVID-19 spread.
Research co-authored by Chris Wildeman, professor of policy analysis and management, compared the outcomes of Danish inmates who were or were not placed in disciplinary isolation after committing similar infractions.
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Lisa Nishii sent a message to the Ithaca campus Nov. 16 to say there are no planned changes to the semifinals exam schedule despite the campus moving to Alert Level Yellow.
Historian Barry Strauss notes that plagues and epidemics have often been linked to wars. The current pandemic will highlight the fragility of society and significantly influence U.S. politics – with unknown consequences – and the U.S.-China relationship, he says.
University officials announced Feb. 5 that there is a cluster of at least 12 positive COVID-19 cases within the student body and that campus is moving to alert status Yellow: Low to Moderate Risk.