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Michigan Technological University’s Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion launches its Sense of Belonging Speakers Series with two virtual panel discussions this month.

A newly discovered small molecule could be sprayed into people’s noses to prevent COVID-19 illness prior to exposure and provide early treatment if administered soon after infection, according to a study in mice led by Cornell researchers.

"R0 and the culture club paradox in diversifying the biomedical sciences" a hybrid-format lecture presented by Avery August, professor of immunology and vice provost for academic affairs at Cornell University.  The in-person lecture is located at the HUB Robeson Freeman Auditorium. Masks are required for in-person attendance.  To attend via zoom webinar, please register here.   About the speaker: Avery August is Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Professor of Immunology, V...

As Cornell students returned from Thanksgiving travel to wrap up their semester in Ithaca, it became home to one of the country’s “first superspreader” events of the new Omicron variant.

When a T cell makes up its mind to kill, it does not mess around.

After a competitive application process, Cornell is one of seven institutions awarded $16 million as part of the inaugural Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation Grant by the National Institutes of Health. Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Prof. Avery August, microbiology and immunology, received the grant to hire and support faculty who diversify biomedical and health researchers at Cornell.

Seventy-five countries around the world called for an end to what they describe as “vaccine nationalism” in a joint letter to the United Nations this month. “The pandemic knows no borders,” the letter says in part.

Zaterdag 28 augustus is de ambulance met spoed uitgereden naar de Rijksweg in Heel. De melding werd om 10:07 via het P2000 netwerk verzonden naar een dienstdoende ambulance behorend bij de 112 veiligheidsregio Limburg Noord.

In the face of increased demand for COVID-19 testing supplies and events like storms and border closures disrupting the plastic supply chain, research labs across the country are running low on crucial plastic lab materials such as pipette tips, gloves and centrifuge tubes.  The national pipette tip shortage has trickled down to lab benches at Cornell, where dwindling supplies have pushed researchers to adapt. Through creativity and collaboration, many Cornell researchers were able to navigate...

Winfield to become chief diversity officer at Law School Admission Council March 10, 2021 Angela Winfield, J.D. ’08, associate vice president for inclusion and workforce diversity, is leaving Cornell to become the chief diversity officer of the Law School Admission Council (LSAC). Her last day at Cornell will be May 14. Among her many accomplishments, she led her team in developing the six-part staff training course “Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Cornell,” helped bring th...