A revised academic calendar anticipates Commencement ceremonies on back-to-back weekends next spring, including one for the Class of 2020, whose planned celebration this May was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Victoria Beard, professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University and expert on how planners need to address urban inequality and poverty, is available for interviews about the long-standing infrastructure problems compounding India’s management of COVID-19.
Experts at Cornell University are available to discuss the coronavirus in terms of its many impacts on agriculture industries, food and beverage markets, as well as specific disruptions to the food supply chain.
A statistical analysis of all 50 states and Washington, D.C., found that social distancing measures slowed the spread of coronavirus on the whole, but did not reduce the number of new infections per day.
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of government at Cornell University and an expert on Chinese politics, says that China's decision to postpone its annual political meetings is a sign of the outbreak’s ongoing disruption on China’s politics, as well as on its economics.
In a message to the Cornell and local communities, President Martha E. Pollack said the decision to reactivate campus was driven by the “responsibility to safeguard the health and well-being of not only our students, but of our entire community.”
This year’s Lund Critical Debate, “Migration in the Age of Pandemics,” on February 16 will explore ways to promote the best public health outcomes worldwide and protect human rights, as waves of people cross national borders.