This piece features the work of Russell Weaver, economic geographer at ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, on Black workers in Buffalo and the disproportional coronavirus impact they face.

“Beijing’s rhetoric appears aimed at defusing the global backlash that its brash diplomacy and harsh policies have provoked,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government.

Carole Boyce-Davies, professor of Africana studies, says,“This is a good time for Americans to think through this question, and particularly since it’s not raised often in the context of white immigrant identities. [White immigrants] just pass and fade into white identities, and nobody knows what their background is.” 

Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, says that cutting back on methane measures is “dangerously reckless,” and that “Methane emissions are increasing rapidly, and the oil and gas industry is clearly part of the problem.”

Sarah Kreps, professor of government, and Baobao Zhang, postdoctoral associate in government, are noted to have upcoming research in which about 2,000 people were surveyed on their level of support for coronavirus monitoring policies.

Allen Carlson, associate professor of government, says that China’s arrest of media executive Jimmy Lai reminds him of the Chinese saying, “killing the chicken to scare the monkey,” meaning that China is punishing a few high-profile individuals to set an example.

“The things that are within the White House’s ability to do on its own are very, very limited and what we need now is to focus on is how we’re going to maintain the businesses that are out there,” says Daniel Alpert of Cornell Law School.

“Instead of a one-way street, it’s a two-way exchange but on a large scale potentially,” says Natalie Bazarova, associate professor of communications, about live-streaming.

This article features Janis Whitlock, a research scientist in the College of Human Ecology, and her urge to record her thoughts into her phone amid the pandemic, assign her students a journaling project and expand that project into a global project called “Telling Our Stories in the Age of COVID-19.”

“Trump may not care, but others in the party should tread carefully here,” says Jens David Ohlin, professor of law and vice dean of the Law School, about Trump’s having convention-related activities at the White House.

“Contrary to what a lot of people assume, American democracy has always been fragile and in real danger of backsliding,” says Suzanne Mettler, a professor of American politics.

“It’s an enigma,” says Avery August, an immunologist at the College of Veterinary Medicine and vice provost for academic affairs. “You have this raging immune response, but the virus continues to replicate.”