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While world public health agencies are focused on how to react to the next pandemic once it has started, a new plan proposes using ecological perspectives to prevent disease outbreaks before they happen, according to a paper published March 26 in Nature Communications.
Following their co-taught Mellon seminar, Cornell faculty Akcan and Dadi announce the release of their edited volume of essays on the art and architecture of partitions, migrations, arrivals, experiences, and global conditions from the 20th century to the present.
A panel of faculty and scholars reflected on how freedom of expression can be improved for everyone, including noncitizens, at a March 5 global free expression event. "We have an obligation to speak up and to fight for rights to be applied fairly and evenly," said Cecillia Wang, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
History doctoral student Megan Jeffreys is using runaway slave ads as one of the foundations of her work.
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, notes “Presidents do have a lot of authority when it comes to immigration, because immigration touches on sovereignty and foreign relations. However, any president's authority is not unlimited.”
"The number of newly arriving immigrants who have come to New York to establish new homes in our communities and flee life-threatening danger in their countries of birth has captured the nation's attention.
While New York has historically been a destination for millions of immigrants, the current situation has exposed an urgent problem in our immigration legal services infrastructure," says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigrations law practice and Marielena Hincapié, distinguished immigration scholar at Cornell Law School.
"Whether it’s a murmuration of starlings, herds of wildebeest crossing the plains of Africa, or shoals of salmon leaping up a cascading river, the mass migrations of animals, birds and fish are some of the most spectacular events in the natural world. But human activity and other pressures are pushing many of these creatures towards oblivion."
“President Biden has broad powers under the immigration statute, but they are not unlimited. Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act allows a president to suspend the entry of noncitizens who are ‘detrimental to the interests of the United States,’ but that doesn’t mean he can just shut the border to everyone,” Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law expert, previously told CNN.
“When people who look like you appear to be targeted, either by the government or others in your community, that is distressing,” said Neil Lewis Jr. ’13, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and co-author of “Deportation Threat Predicts Latino U.S. Citizens and Noncitizens’ Psychological Distress, 2011-2018,” which published Feb. 20 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
