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Lily Hakim ’07 Receives 2023 CALS Young Alumni Achievement Award
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The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences awarded Lily Hakim ’07 its Young Alumni Achievement Award for her work submitting the budget for Pfizer’s COVID-19 clinical trial.
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University to Eliminate COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements in May
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The University will be eliminating all COVID-19 vaccination requirements as of May 20 for current and incoming students and staff, according to a campus-wide email on Friday.
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Three Years Since COVID-19 Lockdown, Cornellians Reflect on Pandemic
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Students and faculty reflect on their Cornell experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic after three years when the University shifted to fully online learning.
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Updated COVID-19 Bivalent Booster Released in Time for Fall and Winter Omicron Wave
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Prof. Cynthia Leifer, college of veterinary medicine, explains what the FDA’s recent approval of the COVID-19 bivalent booster means for the general public.
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Monkeypox Vaccine Available in Tompkins County
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The monkeypox vaccine arrives in Ithaca this month less than a month after three cases of monkeypox were reported in Tompkins County, adding monkeypox to the list of pandemics students face this fall. As of Sept. 6, 3,326 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in New York State.
Columns
Guest Room | Novak Djokovic and the Case for a Radical Empathy
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Novak Djokovic doesn’t care about your rules.
The Serbian tennis star, who was detained in Australia and ultimately barred from entry into the Australian Open, is the latest high-profile athlete to find himself at the heart of a culture war firestorm over vaccine denialism. The media has shouted him down for two weeks, his fellow anti-vaxxers for two years, and it seems that here we find ourselves stuck.
Such dramas, captivating as they may be, have brought us no closer to mending our bitter political divides. The antidote to our insufferable culture war is dreadfully boring: empathy. But, crucially, the ability to express it need not mean sacrificing our ideals to political moderation.
Cornell promises that its students can usher in a better world in the face of cultural and political strife. Tell that to a first-week freshman and their eyes will sparkle.
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Cornell Enforces Vaccination Requirement for Employees Following Executive Order
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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.
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International Students Face Continual Complications with Vaccinations and Travel
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Differing vaccine rollouts across countries have been creating difficulties for Cornell’s international students from delays in receiving FDA-approved doses to ongoing travel restrictions.
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VALDERATO | Can You Test Me More?
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This is not a call for endless restrictions on social life or acts of pandemic theater. I actually agree that any outdoor mask mandate is prioritizing the wrong thing given the miniscule risk for outdoor transmission compared to eating in a packed dining hall. Similarly, I acknowledge that most if not all of us are likely to get COVID-19 in our lifetime, experiencing it as a non-life-threatening illness somewhere between a cold we don’t notice and a bad case of the flu.
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Delay in On-Campus Vaccine Sites Drives Students to Far-off Clinics
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The University held its first COVID-19 vaccination clinic for students at Bartels Hall on April 23 but, for many, the clinic came too little, too late. Many took it upon themselves to get vaccinated at off-campus sites before the clinic.