Sarah Kreps is a professor of government and international relations at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the use of drones for counterterrorism, cyber security and cyber escalation. Kreps says that if countries are going to be turning to unmanned tech on the ground, a human should be kept in the loop on decisions about life and death.

Law, Government & Public Policy

Arts and Sciences

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As President Biden continues to promote his infrastructure bill, concerns are rising as the U.S. faces a shortage of skilled workers to fill the positions needed in construction, transportation and energy. Art Wheaton says as long as there are long-term assurances of jobs, training and apprenticeship programs will aid in filling those positions.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Cornell University experts are available to discuss the impact of the FDA's impending ruling on JUUL.

Law, Government & Public Policy

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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Drew Margolin says that this recent ruling indicates that some jurisdictions are willing to lay the responsibility of monitoring harmful speech to media platforms themselves — a potentially significant trend in how we view future cases.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Robert Hockett and Will Cong weigh in on El Salvador becoming the first country to make bitcoin ‘legal tender,’ alongside the U.S. dollar.

Economics and Business

Law School

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Stephen Wicker says iPhones that can directly connect to the internet will greatly reduce the digital divide and increase competition in a marketplace currently dominated by the duopoly of cable and ADSL.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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Brian Rahm, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute, comments on the devastating floods in the Northeast caused by Hurricane Ida.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

New York City

New York State

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Vanessa Bohns, associate professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University’s ILR School, offers the following suggestions for how to make–the potentially tricky–request more effective. 

Economics and Business

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The following Cornell University experts are available to weigh in on masking and social distancing for grades K-12.

education

science

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Brian Rahm, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute and senior research associate with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, comments on the scrapping of a Trump administration rule that limited federal protections for streams, marshes and wetlands.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food & Agriculture

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