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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 the shortages and avoid severe roadblocks to their research.  Pipette tips are some of the most es...

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 the Check Your Blind Spots bus tour to campus in fall 2019, and advanced the Inclusivity 30-Day Challe...