The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/tamarakamis/)
After about 1,681 Cornell students tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 10 days, the University announced Tuesday that all students, faculty and staff must receive a booster shot, in addition to the COVID vaccine, for the spring semester.
On Tuesday, as active student cases surpassed 400, Cornell moved all final exams online. But some professors had already moved exams online for some or all of their students earlier in the week, taking precautions as active student cases spiked on campus.
Prof. Derrick Spires, literatures in english, will discuss citizenship and Black intellectual history in a webinar this Wednesday.
Faculty across campus had to adapt with the aftermath of last week’s bomb and gun threats, balancing the needs of students with their course plans.
In a lecture on Friday, Evelyn Diaz, president of the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Right, and University of Chicago Prof. Jens Ludwig discussed how behavioral science interventions could be used to reduce gun violence in the United States.
In a Monday email, the University encouraged –– though did not require –– eligible students to receive the COVID-19 booster shot.
Students and Ithaca residents gathered for a protest on Sunday to advocate for the release of Julius Jones, who is currently on death row in Oklahoma.
Studying for exams, running ultramarathons, watching movies and visiting friends are just a few of the ways that Cornell students spent the first fall break in two years.
On Oct. 13, Cornell will host Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), Chair of the House Budget Committee, and Prof. Michael Dorf, law, for a virtual event discussing the implications of Congress’s short term debt ceiling extension, which temporarily avoided a government shutdown.
Under a recent executive order, Cornell will require all Cornell employees to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8 — marking a shift from previous University policy that only encouraged faculty and staff to get their COVID vaccines.