MEDIA ALERT: Experts available on coronavirus
Cornell faculty members can speak about coronavirus from a variety of perspectives: the science and health implications of the disease, its impact on the global economy, the science of vaccines and impact on healthcare systems, labor and specialized industries, effects on countries around the world and the broader impact the crisis is having on our daily lives.
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Expert Quotes
“Facebook’s Antigone Davis obfuscated questions about the impact of the Facebook-owned platform on teen’s mental health and young women’s body image – despite the WSJ’s recent release of internal data correlating platform use with body dissatisfaction and suicidal idealizations. Lawmakers expressed particular concern with the features that “quantify popularity” – such as likes, favorites, and comments features – and the lack of standards for influencer marketing.”
Brooke Erin Duffy
Professor of Communication
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Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, assistant professor of design and environmental analysis in the College of Human Ecology, uses textile techniques from knitting and weaving to make on-skin devices that also serve as high-tech forms of expression. Graduate students Kunpeng Huang ’21 and Heather Jin-Hee Kim are first authors on award-winning papers describing the research.Read the article in the Cornell Chronicle.
In The News
“The focus on protecting children may be much more of a catalyst for regulation than other concerns and criticisms,” says Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communications. “The senators deployed this knowledge of big tech in a way that I don’t think we’ve seen before.”
“The most reasonable prediction is that cases will increase over the winter but not nearly as much as last year,” says Isaac Weisfuse, a medical epidemiologist with the Master of Public Health Program.
Benjamin Houlton, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, discusses how Congress can allocate funding to help farmers in the U.S. combat climate change.
“Do your part not to be exposed to a high dose of virus,” says Cornell virologist Luis Schang. “That’s the best fighting chance for the immune system.”
“There’s always somebody talking about there being a labor shortage, and yet in a free market economy, the price is supposed to make the adjustments so that the quantity demanded will meet the quantity supplied,” says Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor. “What they're really saying is that I'm not offering enough to get the workers I need.”
“Before, they were invisible and nobody cared about them,” says Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of Cornell’s Worker Institute. “Now they’ve been saying our conditions are horrible.”