In “Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea,” author Sarah Besky from the ILR School addresses the role of quality in contemporary capitalism and how quality is judged in a product as ordinary as a bag of tea.
Nellie Brown, an expert on workplace health and safety, predicts the pandemic will result in more interest in strengthening weakened supply chains and in crisis planning.
Political scientist Gustavo A. Flores-Macías compares the economic consequences of COVID-19 to the 2008-09 recession. The pandemic, he says, will result in a poorer and more unequal U.S. society.
The Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy is celebrating its tenth anniversary at a critical time. Congress has recently passed several major spending bills that will accelerate infrastructure development. Leaders of the Institute are also describing plans for the years ahead with the benefit of new financial support.
At a Cornell event on Feb. 22, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor said Russian President Vladimir Putin appears intent on provoking a “horrific conflict,” but that he holds out hope for a diplomatic path that would avert all-out war.
Cornell professor Jamila Michener testified March 29 before a congressional committee that universal health insurance coverage would not only address health inequities among people of color, but strengthen the U.S. democracy.
Bellamy, an 18-year veteran of the Cornell University Police Department and its first Black chief, will help lead the university’s transition to a new public safety structure as part of the Division of Public Safety.
Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, an employment and labor expert, says businesses affected by the pandemic will weather the economic storm more successfully if they collaborate with their workforces.
Rachel Beatty Riedl, an expert in international studies, says Africa is the first place to look for an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic, given Africa’s success in dealing with the Ebola virus.