Riché Richardson, associate professor of African-American literature, and Robert L. Harris Jr., professor emeritus of African American history and former director of the Africana Studies and Research Center, reflect on the life and death of Martin Luther King Jr.

Arts and Sciences

Arts & Humanities

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Andrew Mertha, who studies Chinese political institutions and the inner workings of the Chinese Communist Party, comments on yesterday’s unprecedented meeting between North Korean’s leader Kim Jong-un and China’s president Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Arts and Sciences

Foreign Policy

International Reach

Global Reach

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Natalie Bazarova, associate professor of communication at Cornell University and director of the Social Media Lab, comments on the controversy surrounding Facebook's data policies.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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The United States Department of Commerce announced this week that it will include a question on citizenship status in the 2020 decennial Census. Kathleen Weldon, director of data operations and communications at the Roper Center, says that adding a question about citizenship to the Census is concerning to the polling community.

Law and Policy

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Robert L. Harris Jr., professor emeritus of African American history at Cornell University and former director of the Africana Studies and Research Center, reflects on the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and what it meant for his own life and career.

Arts & Humanities

Arts and Sciences

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Steven Osofsky, the Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health and Health Policy at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine comments on the death of the last remaining male northern white rhino.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Veterinary Medicine

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

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Cornell University’s Esta Bigler, who directs the Labor and Employment Program at the Industrial and Labor Relations School, says that apprenticeship programs are an essential part of the U.S. economy, but that government oversight is needed to avoid exploitation by companies.

Law and Policy

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell University and an expert on artificial intelligence safety issues, comments on a pedestrian death following an accident involving a self-driving car.

Computing & Information Sciences

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Engineering

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About a century ago, there were about 6.5 million farms in the United States; by 2012, the most recent data available, that number stood at about 2 million – although the amount of productive farmland had declined only about 5 percent over the same period. But the numbers only tell part of a story, says Antonio DiTommaso, professor of soil and crop sciences at Cornell University.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food & Agriculture

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Experts at Cornell University are available for interviews about the long-lasting legacy of the 1911 Triangle fire in New York City.

New York City

Industrial and Labor Relations

Arts and Sciences

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

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