The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently announced a white-tailed deer in northwestern Pennsylvania, only five miles from the New York border, tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist and one of the top researchers regarding CWD, says this positive CWD case will require a thorough investigation to make sure it did not infect wild deer in New York.

Veterinary Medicine

New York State

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Sital Kalantry, an expert on the Indian judicial system, comments on news that WhatsApp has sued the Indian government over its new privacy rules.

International

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Neema Kudva, an expert on sustainable development in small cities and their regions in South Asia, comments on Cyclone Yaas threatening Eastern India, and its potential impact on critical infrastructure as well as the COVID-19 crisis in the country.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Valzhyna Mort, professor in Cornell University’s English department, is a poet born in Minsk, Belarus and comments on the arrest of Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich. 

International

Law and Policy

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Desirée LeClercq, professor of employment law and an expert on labor provisions in trade agreements, comments on the first U.S.-Mexico Canada Agreement Free Trade Commission meeting.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

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Arthur Wheaton, an expert on the automotive industry at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on President Biden's proposed $174 billion investment in electric vehicles.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Industrial and Labor Relations

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On Monday, AT&T announced a $43 billion deal to merge its content unit, WarnerMedia with rival Discovery. The merger, still pending regulators’ approval, signals a change in AT&T’s years-long strategy of combining its communications networks with content production and distribution. Aija Leiponen, professor at the SC Johnson College of Business and an expert in telecom industries, says that AT&T’s reversal validates what observers have been witnessing in recent years: that telecom ownership of content business is not a value added.

Economics and Business

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Luis Schang says the benefits of returning to a more open society now outweigh the marginal risk of vaccinated people not wearing masks and distancing.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

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In the U.S. alone, the hard cider market has increased more than tenfold in the past decade and Gregory Peck, assistant professor of horticulture in Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been exploring ways to increase the quality and quantity of New York-grown cider apples.

Food & Agriculture

Agriculture and Life Sciences

New York State

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On Thursday, Coinbase Global, Inc. is slated to report earnings as a public company for the very first time this week. Mani Sethuraman, assistant professor at the SC Johnson College of Business, studies corporate communication and its impact on markets.

Economics and Business

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