Though it was Xi Jinping who extended the invitation to Kim, China’s president likely felt forced into orchestrating the visit after Trump’s sudden decision to meet with Kim, according to Andrew Mertha, an expert on Chinese politics at Cornell University.

“Asking about citizenship on the Census is controversial because it is believed that such questions can suppress response among immigrant and other populations,” says Kathleen Weldon, director of data operations and communications at Cornell's Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

Laura Goodman, assistant research professor at CVM provides tips on how to protect yourself and pets from ticks.

Ifeoma Awunja, a sociologist who researches the use of health data in the workplace, warns how data collected from employees “could be sold to basically anyone, for whatever purpose, and recirculated in other ways.”

While Facebook let slip data profiles on millions of people, “it’s much more than that,” says James Grimmelmann, law professor. “Trying to pin down any one breach as being the source of all the privacy harms out there is futile.”

The U.S. Congress will debate a move toward cash-based aid this year when lawmakers vote on a new Farm Bill. “A conservative estimate is that we sacrifice roughly 40,000 children’s lives annually because of antiquated food aid policies,” says Christopher Barrett, an expert on food aid.

Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell, pens this op-ed about how to preserve information on the deleted accounts of fake news that future historians may need to understand current events.

A recent study by Renata Ivanek, associate professor of epidemiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine, found that water troughs on farms are a conduit for the spread of toxic E. coli in cattle.

Bart Selman, a professor of computer science at Cornell University who studies artificial intelligence, is quoted in this story about the first fatality caused by a self-driving car.

Coverage of new research by Robin Dando, a food scientist at CALS, which found that obesity dulls people's sense of taste.

Andrew Novaković, who teaches agricultural economics at Cornell University, is quoted in this piece about milk prices and the economic struggles of farmers in New York's upstate.

Chris Barrett discusses his work in international food aid. The piece coincides with the introduction of the "Food Aid Modernization Act" in Congress.