Stephen B. Wicker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University, conducts research in wireless information networks and how regulation can affect privacy and speech rights. Wicker comments on proposed legislation to limit the use of embedded software on mobile phones that can detect and record keystrokes.
Martin Wiedmann and Rob Ralyea, Cornell University researchers and experts on food safety, comment and the danger presented to farmers and consumers by the raw milk movement.
Wage and compensation expert Linda Barrington, director of the Cornell University ILR School Institute for Compensation Studies, comments on the unexpected drop in unemployment to 8.3 percent.
Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University professor of government, comments on the upcoming Florida Primary: “GOP candidates might think they can appeal to them by taking a hard line on the Castro regime, but this runs counter to the vibrant social and economic ties kept up by the more recent cohort of Cuban arrivals to the U.S. A hard line policy toward Cuba - maintaining an economic embargo and curtailing ties - turns these voters off. So to appeal to Cuban-American voters, GOP candidates have to reconcile two very different visions of U.S. relations with Cuba."
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will unveil its long-awaited new “Plant Hardiness Zone Map” expected to reflect changing climate patterns Cornell University has several experts available to discuss the significance of the changes.
Steven C. Kyle, professor economics at Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, comments on Pres. Obama’s call for government infrastructure investment in his State of the Union address.
Charles Greene, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, is an expert on the protection of threatened marine ecosystems. Greene comments on the potential for ecological disaster posed by the 2,300 tons of fuel oil still aboard the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia.
Susan Christopherson, a professor of city and regional planning in Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning, has done research on Rochester, N.Y., for years, and comments on the announcement that Eastman Kodak Co., has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Tarleton Gillespie, a professor of communication and information science at Cornell University, comments on today’s protests by Wikipedia and other websites over potential federal antipiracy legislation.
Robert C. Hockett, professor of Law at Cornell University, discusses how the core message of Pres. Obama’s “Theodore Roosevelt” speech has been a formula for success for past Democratic and Republican administrations.
Iago Gocheleishvili is a Cornell University lecturer of Persian Studies, and has worked with the U.S.-sponsored Central Asia and Caspian Basin Project as an expert on the Iranian world. He comments on the recent sanctions by Western powers against Iran.
Ziad Fahmy, an Egyptian-born professor of near eastern studies at Cornell University and author of “Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture," comments on the violent protests in Egypt.
Sharon L. Poczter, Cornell University assistant professor of Managerial Economics at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, comments on the inherently flawed structure of the failed “Super Committee.”
Cornell University professors Robert Hockett, an expert in financial policy regulations in the Law School, and Steven Kyle, an expert on U.S. macroeconomic policy in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, hail the apparent failure of the Congressional “Super Committee” to reach a deal to reduce the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion.
Ritch Savin-Williams, professor of developmental psychology and director of Cornell University’s Sex & Gender Lab, comments on the efforts of schools to implement anti-bullying initiatives. Nov. 14 through 18 has been declared Ani-Bullying Week 2011 by the Anti-Bullying Alliance.
Michael Fontaine, professor of Classics at Cornell University, studied Latin under the top Vatican Latinist for Pope John Paul II. He comments on the new translation of the Roman Missal, which on Nov. 27 will bring rare changes to the way Catholics worship.
Actors Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin go on a one-year search for birds in the upcoming comedy film, “The Big Year.” The movie, which debuts in the United States on Oct. 14, includes 18 sounds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library, the world’s largest collection of animal sounds.
Richard Burkhauser, professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University and co-author of the new book “The Declining Work and Welfare for People with Disabilities: What Went Wrong and a Strategy for Change,” offers ways to bend the future cost curve of the Social Security Disability Insurance program, whose trust fund is projected to be insolvent by 2018.
Richard Burkhauser, professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University, will be a panel member at “Poverty and Income in 2010: A Look at the News Census Data and What the Numbers Mean” hosted by the Center for Children and Families Brookings Institute on Tuesday, Sept. 13, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in Washington, D.C.
Cornell University has assembled 13 researchers and professionals who can discuss a variety of issues related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks – from a lead architect’s perspective on redesigning the World Trade Center to a researcher working with the Department of Defense to study how social media might uncover future attack plans.
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