CUNY, SUNY colleges to mandate coronavirus vaccine: 6 key questions answered
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The coronavirus vaccine mandate at City University of New York and State University of New York schools for the 2021-2022 academic year is contingent on whether there is full approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Students who plan to attend City University of New York (CUNY) and State University of New York (SUNY) colleges for in-person classes this fall will need to get vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement Monday that CUNY and SUNY boards will mandate that students provide proof of vaccination if they attend in-person classes this fall. He encouraged all private universities and colleges to adopt the same guidelines.
Now that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use in kids as young as 12, Yahoo News Medical Contributor Dr. Kavita Patel says parents should consider vaccinating their children “as soon as possible.” The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds on Monday, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying on Wednesday that it could be immediately administered to the age.
University of Toronto
A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto has shown that Anolis lizards, or anoles, are able to breathe underwater with the aid of a bubble clinging to their snouts.
Anoles are a diverse group of lizards found throughout the tropical Americas. Some anoles are stream specialists, and these semi-aquatic species frequently dive underwater to avoid predators, where they can remain submerged for as long as 18 minutes.
“We found that semi-aquatic anoles exhale air into a bubble that clings to their skin,” says Chris Boccia, a recent Master of Science graduate from the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB). Boccia is lead author of a paper describing the finding published this week in Current Biology.
Hong Hong in conversation. The performance of ritual, with its physical demands and cyclical patterns, grounds Hong s papermaking and opens a channel of communication between present and past, the artist and her ancestors, and the mundane and the divine. In her work and installations, Hong investigates human experiences of time, dimension, and space. She will discuss her installation at Asia Society, where the architecture is both a support and a counterpoint for ideas of scale, visual perception, and experiential connection.
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