Tip Sheets

Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Somalia faces ‘four horsemen of the food emergency apocalypse’

September 6, 2022

The United Nations warns parts of Somalia will be hit by famine between October and December as a drought worsens and global food prices surge.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

International

International Reach

CA vote to keep nuclear plant ‘unambiguously good news for the climate’

September 1, 2022

Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at the Cornell Alliance for Science and author of “Nuclear 2.0: Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power,” comments on California's vote to keep open the state's last remaining nuclear plant.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Cornell expert available to discuss Twitter’s edit button

September 1, 2022

Some Twitter users will start being able to click a button on the social media service to edit a tweet after they have posted it.

Computing & Information Sciences

First Solar U.S. expansion likely to nudge other producers stateside

August 31, 2022

Fengqi You, a professor of energy systems engineering and an expert on the life cycle of solar panels, comments on First Solar's announced expansion in the U.S., and Max Zhang, a sustainable energy systems expert, discusses what it can mean for solar panel reuse and recycling.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Gorbachev likely haunts Vladimir Putin's dreams

August 30, 2022

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. Cornell University military historian David Silbey is available to comment on Gorbachev's passing.

International

August job report: ‘Economic tea leaves difficult to read’

August 30, 2022

On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release unemployment figures for the month of August. Erica Groshen can speak on the report, unemployment rates and trends in the labor market.

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

Cornell expert on Nasdaq board diversity rule hearing

August 29, 2022

Two conservative groups will argue in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Nasdaq's board diversity rule violates the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment. Scott Yonker has researched the effects of corporate board diversity on company performance and is available for interviews.

Law and Policy

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Economics and Business

Diversity

Labor expert on EV transition: Workers missing from discussion

August 29, 2022

Labor expert Ian Greer weighs in on the transition to electric vehicles and its impact on workers.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

DOD's overhaul of U.S. combat operations “fails” to acknowledge role of collateral damage

August 25, 2022

The Department of Defense released an action plan to help reduce civilian casualties during war.

Foreign Policy

Law, Government & Public Policy

Law and Policy

Labor Day 2022: RTO mandates, unionization motivation, economic impacts for workers

August 23, 2022

Cornell University labor experts are available to weigh in on return-to-office policies and mandates, the increase of union organizing and strikes, how current economic conditions are impacting workers and more.

Labor Relations & Human Resources

Industrial and Labor Relations