Public health is Cornell’s top priority as it prepares to start a residential fall semester Sept. 2, and the university is prepared to pivot if conditions change, senior leaders said Aug. 20 during a virtual town hall for faculty and staff.
Threatened with shutting down due to COVID-19, Loaves & Fishes of Tompkins County was saved at the last minute by the formation of new partnerships that helped keep the food distribution service going.
Despite the pandemic, Cornell students successfully navigated the process of applying to medical and law schools and are headed to some of the country’s top professional schools this fall.
A Cornell Tech-led team has pioneered the use of “ghostdrivers” – cars with drivers disguised under a car seat-like hood – to assess how pedestrians across cultures might react to autonomous vehicles.
About 650 members of the campus community – mostly students – received COVID-19 vaccines at an April 23 clinic in Bartels Hall, hosted in partnership with Cayuga Health System and the Tompkins County Health Department.
President Martha E. Pollack, Provost Michael Kotlikoff and Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi announced safety measures for students returning to Cornell's Ithaca campus for the spring semester.
Diversity leaders at Weill Cornell Medicine have launched ambitious community vaccination and education efforts, with the goal of improving uptake and helping those who are reluctant to get the vaccine.
After learning the theory and methodology behind public opinion polls, undergraduates in “Taking America’s Pulse” surveyed a nationally representative sample of more than 1,100 Americans on a wide range of topics.
President Martha E. Pollack and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Lisa Nishii discuss getting out to vote, “semi-final” exams during the third and fourth weeks of November, and other topics.
When gerontologist Karl Pillemer began interviewing the oldest Americans in 2003, he could not have known he would one day be sharing their advice on living through crisis in the midst of a global pandemic.