"Our research provides the best evidence yet that migrating birds are attracted to building lights, often causing them to collide with windows and die,” says Benjamin Van Doren, a postdoctoral associate at the Lab of Ornithology.

Cornell Law School’s Asylum Clinic took the case of Dr. Merlys Rodriguez Hernandez, a refugee who was detained by ICE for 6 months. The Cornell Asylum Clinic, under the direction of Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law practice, and Ian M. Kysel, visiting assistant clinical professor of law, litigated an appeal to the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals and won her release.

As COVID-19 bore down on New York state, the Cornell Farmworker Program used mobile phone technology to provide rapid guidance and clear health information in multiple languages to the state’s farmworkers. Now, new federal funding will expand the program and further integrate the initiative with Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE).

For the first time, humpback whales were heard singing in waters off New York. Hear the audio from the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics and Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University.

The "All Things Considered" podcast mentions Lights Out Texas, a partnership among the Lab of Ornithology, politicians, and local conservation groups to encourage residents and businesses in major cities to dim non-essential lights to protect millions of migrating birds.

Migrations faculty fellow Stephen Yale-Loehr is a guest on the Immigration Nerds podcast, talking about the Migrations initiative and his work with asylum seekers. 

In episode 4, we take a close look at surveillance and migration. We speak with Monamie Bhadra Haines, whose work in Singapore looks at the surveillance of migrants, and Lorenzo Pezzani, whose work on migration in the Mediterranean Sea asks unique questions about witnessing and narrative. 

As part of the inaugural Undergraduate Migrations Symposium Beyond Borders on Friday, May 7, Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times journalist Molly O’Toole ’09 spoke in a virtual round table, moderated by Prof. Shannon Gleeson, labor relations, law and history. 

Professors Ian Kysel, Stephen Yale-Loehr, and Gunisha Kaur, along with law and medical students, share the story of a Cuban doctor held in a U.S. detention center. Read her story of catching COVID while seeking asylum. 

The tragedy of COVID-19, with its devastating loss of life and disruption to our food and social systems, will be a walk in the garden compared to the looming catastrophe of human induced climate change. As we tenuously begin to emerge out of this pandemic, our attention is returning to the shattering impact of climate change.