Historian Barry Strauss notes that plagues and epidemics have often been linked to wars. The current pandemic will highlight the fragility of society and significantly influence U.S. politics – with unknown consequences – and the U.S.-China relationship, he says.
Risk communicators must get trust, tradeoffs and preparedness right as the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, according to Cornell experts Dominic Balog-Way and Katherine McComas.
Rob Scott, director of Cornell Prison Education Program, has organized 14 New York colleges and universities to provide masks for every person incarcerated in the state – nearly 43,000 people.
The proliferation of medical misinformation on social media and the human experience of social distancing are among the pandemic-related topics to receive rapid response grants from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
Alecia Sundsmo, currently clinical director of mental health services at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has been named Cornell Health’s new director of Counseling and Psychological Services, effective July 1.
Wheat scientists from China, Ethiopia, Germany, India and Uruguay have been honored by the Cornell's Borlaug Global Rust Initiative as Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Early Career awardees.
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.
Lively Run Goat Dairy of Interlaken, New York, co-owned by Dave Messmer ’17, is doing its part to help those in the region struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The voices of survivors of the Holocaust and other atrocities will live on through Cornell University Library’s recently acquired permanent access to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
Professor of art Carl Ostendarp has created wall paintings as backdrops for an exhibition of expressionist and modern art opening May 12 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
A Cornell-led collaboration investigated how differences in collagen fibers are responsible for influencing the behavior of myofibroblasts – findings that could have implications for preventing and treating fibrotic diseases such as cancer.
Alejandro Calixto, formerly head of the Florida Research Center for Corteva Agriscience, will begin May 16 as the new director of New York State Integrated Pest Management.
