Jonathon Schuldt, associate professor of communication; Peter Enns, professor of government; Katherine Zaslavksy, PhD student in sociology; and Byungdoo Kim, PhD student in communication, write this opinion piece about their research finding that “awareness of anti-Asian bias actually declined between June and October 2020, and only returned to previous levels in late March 2021.” 

“Many climate impacts scale almost linearly with warming, so reducing emissions as fast as possible has to remain a key sustained motivation for this and future administrations, irrespective of a particular warming target,” says Flavio Lehner, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences.

“If people say ‘because the system worked [here] there’s nothing to fix,’ that’s a moral obscenity. That’s a terrible mistake,” says Joe Margulies, professor of law. “The bigger question is why do we have this kind of friction and tension between so many police departments and communities of color?”

Valerie Hans, professor of law, says, “The Chauvin trial was different from previous police use-of-force cases that also seemed strong in that multiple police officers testified persuasively that Chauvin's conduct was unlawful.”

“If it was just about the birthrate and it was just about American women having more children and there weren't other layers there with respect to racism and poverty, we would see a very different approach in some of these other policy arenas,” says Jamila Michener, government professor.

Glenn Altschuler, professor of American studies, writes this opinion piece about why President Joe Biden is going all-in on infrastructure. 

Alex Colvin, dean of the ILR School, says that Amazon used mandatory meetings and constant messaging to its advantage, running a better campaign than the union.

Natalie Mahowald, professor of engineering in earth and atmospheric sciences, says, “I would not be surprised if this one bit of software changes many people’s minds about the scale of the impact of humans on the environment.”

“It seems to me that this is a competition among new and old exchanges,” says Will Cong, associate professor at the SC Johnson College of Business.

“We’re very concerned that this announcement for very rare side effects could have a disproportionate impact in triggering and bringing fears to the surface,” says Douglas Kriner, professor of government. 

“I think the whole idea was to actually make a difference for these kids, that, you know, Blake Mycoskie observed this problem and he looked for a business model to try to actually help them solve it,” said Chris Marquis, professor in sustainable global enterprise, about Toms.

This article about campaigns for cities to turn out their lights to help ensure the safe migration of bird populations notes that the Lab of Ornithology has used radar data to identify abnormal bird densities. The Lab of Ornithology is also credited with estimating that 1.1 million birds’ migrations were affected by a 9/11 memorial installation in New York City over seven nights in September.