Andrew Novakovic, professor emeritus of agricultural economics, says that if Tom Vilsack is confirmed as U.S. agriculture secretary, “He’s going to be thinking about how [to] promote prosperity while at the same time achieving environmental goals.” 

In this op-ed, Cynthia Grant Bowman, professor of law, highlights that New York prisons remain COVID-19 hotspots and argues that the state must release incarcerated individuals who are most vulnerable to the disease. 

Art Wheaton, director of the Western NY Labor and Environmental Programs for the Worker Institute, says that Amazon’s continued growth will bring increased scrutiny of how Amazon pays and treats its employees.

Andrew Farnsworth, senior research associate in the Lab of Ornithology, discusses snowy owl population numbers and says that a decline can indicate stress in their ecosystem. Farnsworth notes the species is at risk due to climate change. 

Maureen O’Hara, professor of finance, writes this opinion piece explaining the GameStop stock chaos.

“A new independent hotel has the opportunity to build a customer base from scratch,” says Kate Walsh, dean at the School of Hotel Administration. “It might’ve been harder to attract locals before, when people would have gotten on a plane.”

Professors of government Rachel Beatty Riedl and Kenneth Roberts co-write this opinion piece about how democracies around the world address authoritarian parties in their government.

“Lockouts are an economic weapon employers use to take the initiative in collective bargaining,” says Alex Colvin, dean of the ILR School. “During the pandemic, lockouts pose a greater threat to unions due to the high unemployment rate and greater availability of replacement workers.”

Thomas Urban, visiting scholar in Classics, is lead author on a new study finding the fort where the Tlingits of Southeast Alaska defended their land from the Russians in 1804. Similar coverage can be found in Nature.

A new study by researchers from Cornell finds the depth of Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn’s moon Titan, is at least 1,000 ft deep.

Ian Kysel, visiting assistant clinical professor of law and co-director of the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic, says, “Going back decades, the U.S. Government has failed to adequately invest in making rights and human dignity the cornerstone of U.S. policy in the region—on migration or otherwise. Human rights are key to addressing the major challenges facing migration.”

Jonathan Burdick, vice provost for enrollment, says the “handwriting was on the wall for both the subject exams and the essay option long before the pandemic struck.”