“The union dodged a huge bullet,” says Art Wheaton, senior extension associate in the ILR School.

“The sunflower star was the most susceptible of the twenty starfish species affected by a multi-host pathogen and has rapidly gone from being the most common subtidal starfish on the US west coast to critically endangered,” says Drew Harvell, professor of Marine Ecology and key player in the sunflower star’s saga.

Andrew Campana, assistant professor of Asian studies, talks about how blind and low-vision player communities continue playing video games.

“It’s not an obvious winner,” says George Hay, professor of law, about the government’s arguments. “Everything that Facebook does is out in the open and it’s been out in the open for 15 years. They’ve never done anything without consulting with teams of antitrust lawyers.” 

Chekitan Dev, professor of marketing and management communication, says that the trend of being a digital nomad, “a person with no fixed address, who lives and works while traveling the globe,” was first driven by millennials, but now older millennials are taking their families with them.

Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of English, weaves her work with first-hand accounts, texts and tweets related to the uprising in Belarus this past summer.

Francine Blau, professor in the ILR School, says, “These are a subset of essential workers who, given the nature of their jobs, must provide their labor in person. Prioritizing them makes sense given the heightened risk that they face.” 

Francine Blau, professor in the ILR School, says, “These are a subset of essential workers who, given the nature of their jobs, must provide their labor in person. Prioritizing them makes sense given the heightened risk that they face.”

Bernd Blossey, professor in the Department of Natural Resources, discusses why controlling deer populations is so difficult. Blossey says, “For vegetation and insects, birds and plants to recover, sometimes you need to reduce deer population down to almost nothing.”

“Our research shows that the benefits of environmental regulation have likely been underestimated,” says Ivan Rudik, assistant professor in applied economics & policy and co-author of the study. “Reducing pollution has positive impacts in unexpected places and provides an additional policy lever for conservation efforts.”

“The numbers we’re looking at now are [far higher than] anything we’ve seen before,” says Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor, about employment numbers. “We’ve never seen a shock like this.”

Isaac Weisfuse, epidemiologist at the College of Veterinary Medicine, says that people should try to spend as little time in stores as possible. “You just want to go in and out,” he says. “Get your shopping done and move on.”