Climate and environment legal scholar, Leehi Yona, comments on a Montana Supreme Court ruling that affirmed youth plaintiffs have a right to a “stable climate system.”
Alistair Hayden, a former division chief of the California Earthquake Early Warning Program at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and a professor of practice in public and ecosystem health, comments on a magnitude 7 earthquake struck off the coast of California.
Celia Bigoness, a clinical professor at Cornell Law School, helps professionals understand how to mitigate risks in the International Business Law certificate from eCornell.
The day after martial law was declared in the Republic of Korea, Tom Garrett– Einaudi Center Lund Practitioner in Residence and Distinguished Global Democracy Lecturer in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy– stood in a classroom teaching “Democracy Promotion in U.S. Foreign Policy” to a collection of public policy undergraduate and graduate students. It wasn’t the first time in the fall semester that world events had collided with the classroom lecture topic.
Sidney Tarrow, an emeritus professor of government who researches social movements, contentious politics, says that the president’s actions could reinvigorate South Korea’s tradition of expressing political dissent through candlelight rallies.
The Brooks Tech Policy Institute has received $3 million from the Department of Defense to establish the U.S. Semiconductor Research Hub, which will assess and improve the resilience of the global network of semiconductor infrastructure.
A Cornell professor’s election forecasting model correctly picked Trump’s win this year in all 50 states – and would have correctly predicted 95% of states in every election since 2000.
The Biden administration plans to require Medicare and Medicaid to offer coverage of weight loss medications. It is up to the incoming Trump administration whether to finalize the proposal.
Tom Pepinsky, a professor of government, and Rachel Beatty Riedl, the director of Cornell University’s Center on Global Democracy, provide insight on what other democracies should take away from the failure of the South Korean president's martial law declaration.
