On Friday, Nov. 10, the Cornell Water Competency Graduation Requirement was updated according to “more modern water safety competency based on industry standards.” The new test requires students to ...

Animal models of human disease have extremely mixed results, and all too often they do not work well and accomplish their goals of helping humans. 1 One such procedure, the forced swim test, is a ...

In the Forced Swim Test (FST), a mouse or rat is placed in a closed container of water from which they cannot escape. The animal initially struggles to escape but eventually gives up and begins ...

For the first time in two years, Cornellians are once again swimming 75 yards across the Helen Newman Hall pool in order to complete the swim test: one of two University-wide graduation requirements ...

The swim test was implemented for soliders training in World War II and it soon became part of the curriculum. Right now, students cannot graduate from UNC without passing the university's swim test.