The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/madelinerosenberg/)
Cornell will begin the spring semester online and extend the move-in period with an expanded testing scheme, as it expects large numbers of cases during the first few weeks of the term, the University announced Thursday.
With 930 positive COVID cases detected on campus this week, final exams shifting modality and winter break fast approaching, the situation on campus is rapidly evolving. Here’s what we know so far.
As active student cases have reached 469, Cornell is shutting down campus 21 months after March 2020, leaving students to scramble in the middle of finals week.
As Cornell students now navigate both in-person and online final exams, cases have skyrocketed to a record-high 469 active student cases on campus — the highest number of positives on the Ithaca campus since the start of the pandemic.
Cornell reported 194 new COVID cases in the past week, Provost Michael Kotlikoff, Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi and Vice President Mary Opperman wrote in a Friday email.
Tara Atluri ’24 was a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who had a “deep love for plants and nature,” CALS Dean Benjamin Houlton wrote to the CALS community, and Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, later wrote in a University statement Monday evening.
Following five hours of shelter-in-place orders for North Campus, Cayuga Heights and other areas within Tompkins County, Cornell has lifted the notice for the Ithaca campus.
Here’s what we know following the North Campus shelter in place order.
Due to a North Campus shelter-in-place notice that has been in place for over two hours, Cornell has canceled all activities on North Campus and postponed all prelims scheduled for Tuesday night, according to a CornellALERT.
Cornellians were bombarded with a combined 22 alerts — over text, email and phone — throughout Sunday afternoon, urging students to evacuate Central Campus following a bomb threat that authorities found “not credible.”