Nellie Brown is an industrial hygienist and the director of workplace health and safety programs for Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She says employers need a heat alert program; preplanning makes a big difference. 

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Jose Andres is a Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability who studies ecological and conservation genomics/environmental DNA.  He comments on the Trump administration's team-up with Colossal Biosciences, a private company, to preserve cells, tissue and DNA from threatened and endangered species. 

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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Kimberly Kopko is an expert in child development at Cornell University who has researched the importance of play in education. She weighs in on the debate over screen time limits and screen bans in schools.

New York State

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Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, there’s been more of a spotlight on the availability of affordable, highly effective birth control for women. However, more and more women had been asking about nonhormonal birth control options – due to side effects and misinformation online.

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Timur Dogan is an associate professor of architecture and the director of the Environmental Systems Lab at Cornell University. His lab develops simulation tools to study and design for extreme heat.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

International

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Olúfémi Táíwò, a professor of Africana studies, says the violence toward African foreign nationals exposes what he calls a “shared hypocrisy” surrounding Ubuntu — a philosophy of communal humanity tied to South Africa’s “Rainbow Nation” identity.

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Anthropic is working to resolve a dispute with the U.S. government after officials imposed export controls on its newest Mythos 5 and Fable 5 artificial intelligence models. The company shut off access to everyone on Friday in order to comply.

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The New York State Legislature passed a one-year moratorium on data center permits, but the governor has yet to sign it. If she does, it would be the first statewide moratorium in the nation. Cornell experts weigh in on the potential pause.

New York State

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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Juan Hinestroza is a professor of fiber science and apparel design who has worked with athletic companies on high-performance apparel. He directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory.

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Mike Fontaine, a classics professor and director of the Program on Freedom and Free Societies, says the event raises long-standing questions about violence and state-sponsored spectacle.

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