On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor is expected to release figures for April’s unemployment rate. The report is likely to show the devasting impact of the coronavirus lockdowns on the economy, with the unemployment rate estimated to be over 16% – a record high in U.S. history. Cornell experts, Erica Groshen and Michael Waldman, are available to break down this week’s figures and help explain what a future recovery would look like.
Collaborating across disparate disciplines to tackle the grand challenges facing humanity is intrinsic to Cornell’s unique brand of research innovation.
When Kaavian Shariati ’20 learned he had Type 1 diabetes shortly before arriving at Cornell, he was shocked not only by his new responsibilities – monitoring his insulin levels day and night – but by the state of diabetes research.
Graduate School Dean Barbara Knuth is inspired daily by the scholarly work of Cornell’s graduate students. Their innovations and intellectual energy are vital to Cornell’s research productivity.
Cornell’s ninth president was an influential scholar, a dazzling orator and an inspiring leader who transformed the university during his 18 years at the helm and beyond. Ezra Cornell ’70 remembers his humanity.
In the 1800s, Americans were targeted with advertisements for what were often considered “cure-all” medicines, presented in colorful trade cards – now part of a Weill Cornell Medicine collection.
Lynn Weidberg Morgan ’89, a volunteer, Cornell Hillel board member and loyal donor, never misses an opportunity to strengthen her Cornell connections. The pins she collects serve as a visual reminder of the ways she strives to build lasting ties for herself and future Cornellians.
