Facebook has launched a new messenger app for kids and preteens. Cornell Social Media Lab director Natalie Bazarova recommends parents create a specific media use plan for kids before they log on to any social media sites.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Computing & Information Sciences

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The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets confirmed that the spotted lanternfly, an invasive insect originating in East Asia, has been found New York state. Two Cornell University experts describe this invasive pest and its potential impact on New York agriculture.

New York State

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food & Agriculture

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Dozens of mayors from across North America, including at least 36 U.S. cities are expected to sign an agreement on Tuesday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet the commitments laid out on a global scale in the Paris Climate Accord. The Chicago Climate Charter, to be signed at the North American Climate Summit in Chicago, signals an important step towards reducing emissions and creating jobs of the future, according to sustainability researchers at Cornell University.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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As Congress nears a deadline next week to approve a new budget or budget extension, the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program hangs in the balance. Shannon Gleeson, a Cornell University professor of labor relations and an expert on immigrant labor, has been working on a three-year long collaborative project to study how the DACA policy is implemented at the local level in Houston, New York City, San Francisco and San Jose.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

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As Indonesia’s Mount Agung continues to spew ash and clouds, climate scientists are preparing to study just how much the eruption will cool the earth — and what we can learn from the phenomenon about cooling the earth ourselves. Douglas MacMartin, a senior research associate and senior lecturer in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, has authored a series of recent papers on how to mimic volcanoes by injecting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere.

Engineering

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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As we move into the holiday season Leni Kaplan, a companion animal veterinarian at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, provides preparation tips and advice to help keep your furry friends safe and healthy.

Veterinary Medicine

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Annelise Riles, professor of far east legal studies and anthropology at Cornell University and the founder and director of policy innovation platform Meridian 180, comments on President Trump's first trip to Asia.

International Reach

Foreign Policy

Law and Policy

Economics and Business

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Paul Mutolo, a chemist and director of External Partnerships for the Energy Materials Center at Cornell University, explains that as renewable sources of energy like wind and solar gain traction, scientists and engineers are eyeing new ways to store that energy in a cost-efficient manner.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Engineering

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Authorities in Beijing have started an extensive 40-day campaign to inspect and demolish cheap housing in the city’s outskirts and forcibly evict residents, mostly migrant workers communities. Eli Friedman, a professor of international and comparative labor at Cornell University and author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China, says the evictions reveal the regime’s moral vacuum and cautions that if replicated in other cities, they could lead to a real humanitarian tragedy.

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Eliza Bettinger, the digital humanities librarian at Cornell University, says the case, Carpenter v. United States, is likely to have major consequences for law enforcement and personal privacy.

University Libraries

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