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arrow Pharmacist Mia Yu administers a dose of the COVID-19 Moderna vaccine to a person at the UJA Federation of New York and Commonpoint Pop-Up Vaccine site in Queens on March 18th, 2021. Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock Cornell University plans to require COVID-19 vaccines for students returning on campus this fall, according to a statement from the university released on Friday. Across the country, eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines has been moving towards including everyone ages 16 ...

Ithaca, New York-based Ivy League school says COVID-19 vaccine is mandatory  School wants to achieve herd immunity on campus to resume class this fall  In a statement, Cornell will grant exemptions for religious or medical reasons  Last week, Rutgers University became first major school to require inoculations  One in three New York State residents have had at least one dose of the vaccine 

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March 16, 2021 Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the university’s most generous donor, will be the first recipient of a new Cornell award created in his name to honor successful entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to giving back. Through his charitable foundation, Feeney has given more than $8 billion to universities and nonprofits around the world, and to global causes focused on human rights, education, health equity, peacemak...

Why financial-services firms need to change with the times Photograph by Witthaya Prasongsin There is a gap between the digital skills people have and those needed to live, learn, and work in the digital world. The need to upskill — to bridge this gap — is a complex problem that will require government administrators, educators, and business leaders to come together. To learn more about upskilling your own workforce, go to Upskill my workforce for the digital world. As the worldwide vaccine...

Lake Flato Architects/Provided An artist’s rendering of Atkinson Hall, to be built on the north side of Tower Road overlooking the Cornell Botanic Gardens. The multidisciplinary building will house the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, the new Master of Public Health Program, and lab and office space for other disciplines. Atkinsons’ $30M gift to name multidisciplinary building March 8, 2021 A $30 million commitment from David R. Atkinson ’60 and Patricia Atkinson wi...

March 4, 2021 The third annual Cornell High School Programming Contest Warm Up, a virtual computer programming competition, was less a contest and more a chance for budding programmers to hone their skills. The event, held Feb. 27, encouraged participation by high school girls and other high school students from groups underrepresented in technology. It was held in advance of Cornell’s annual High School Programming Contest, which is open to all and will be held April 17. Doral TreeSum, from ...

$1.3M in grants go toward making the web’s open-source infrastructure more equitable Open-source software is at the core of… well, practically everything online. But while much of it is diligently maintained in some ways, in others it doesn’t receive the kind of scrutiny that something so foundational ought to. To that end, $1.3 million worth of grants were announced today, split among 13 projects looking to ensure open-source software and development is being done equitably, sustainably ...

Gender Equality in Tech (GET) Cities Expands to DC to Diversify the Tech Ecosystem Supported by Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda Gates company, Get Cities will help grow tech ecosystems that have gender equity at the core of how they educate, select and promote talent News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Gender Equality in Tech (GET) Cities, led by SecondMuse and Break Through Tech in partnership with Pivotal Ventures, today launched GET DC...

March 2, 2021 The Office of Academic Integration (OVPAI) has awarded $750,000 in seed grants to 10 studies ranging from refugee health and legal rights, to a vaccine treating fentanyl addiction and overdose, to pancreatic cancer and antibiotic tolerance. This year’s awardees represent faculty collaborations across five colleges and schools, and 18 departments and divisions across the Cornell Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Tech in New York City. Designed to catalyze colla...