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Cornell frat parties are suspended following students reporting sexual assault and drugging taking place at an off-campus fraternity.

Cases of COVID-19 have surged at Cornell University in recent days, creating a sense of déjà vu for a school that sounded the alarm in early winter when an omicron outbreak closed facilities and moved finals online. The last three of days of recorded data on the university’s website show a measurable spike in positive tests among undergraduate students,...

Vertner Woodsen Tandy was the first registered architect in the state of New York and was one of the seven founders of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Cornell University in 1906.

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As cases of COVID-19 surge at Cornell, local health officials say every single student sample they tested was the omicron variant, underlining how quickly the highly contagious virus is spreading. Tompkins County health officials said late Friday they checked 115 samples from COVID-positive students ages 18-24 and every single one of them was the omicron variant, which was unknown to…

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Andrew Siff, Brian Thompson and John Chandler give updates on the fight against the omicron variant of coronavirus in the tri-state area.

Princeton University will make all finals remote and ordered the immediate cancellation of unmasked indoor gatherings, amid an increase in COVID cases that mirrors the recent omicron variant-driven spikes elsewhere.

NYU said Wednesday it will move finals online, close campus facilities and cancel gatherings after a “sharp acceleration” in the rate of COVID cases. “Following steady declines in new COVID-19 cases since the opening weeks of the fall semester, we began to see increases in early November, in line with New York City’s trends.  At the beginning of this...

Princeton University will make all finals remote and ordered the immediate cancellation of unmasked indoor gatherings, amid an increase in COVID cases that mirrors the recent omicron variant-driven spikes elsewhere. Finals will go remote effective Thursday “so that students will be able to leave campus at their earliest convenience,” Princeton said in an update posted to its campus COVID website…

Cornell University called a “red alert” for students — moving all finals online, cancelling on-campus events and closing facilities — as COVID-19 infections rose more 20x in just a week and the omicron variant began showing up in “significant” numbers. The university reported 276 on-campus positives Monday, the latest day for which data was available, fully 23 times what it…

New York is rolling out a series o new measures to combat the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Andrew Siff reports on the latest efforts.

Cornell University called a “red alert” for students Tuesday, moving all finals online, cancelling on-campus events and closing facilities as COVID-19 infections surge. “Since our Saturday message, our surveillance testing has continued to identify the rapid spread of COVID-19 among our student population,” university president Martha Pollack said in a statement posted online. “While faculty and staff case numbers currently…

As more Americans get vaccinated, there’s still concern about COVID breakthrough cases, where vaccinated people still test postitive for the virus. According to the CDC, the COVID cases are typically less severe. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.

Multiple university buildings were evacuated Sunday for reports of bomb threats on a series of Ivy League campuses, including Columbia, Cornell and Brown.

Shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday, school officials said the threats were not deemed credible and evacuated buildings were cleared for reentry.