A team of researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Virginia Tech surveyed birdwatchers to learn if they drank shade-grown coffee and, if not, why not.

Michelle Fournet, postdoctoral associate in the Lab of Ornithology, discusses the drop in man-made ocean noise due to the pandemic and its effects on underwater sound gathering.

Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says that the court’s decision “increases the burden of proof on immigrants in deportation proceedings.”

Amanda Rodewald, professor of natural resources, says, “Over recent decades, most of the shade coffee in Latin America has been converted to intensively managed row monocultures devoid of trees or other vegetation. As a result, many birds cannot find suitable habitats and are left with poor prospects of surviving migration and successfully breeding.”

Mary Jo Dudley, director of the Cornell Farmworker Program, says that it is “puzzling” that New York state farmworkers were left out of the current phase of coronavirus vaccine eligibility “at a time when we’ve seen an increasing number of COVID cases among the farmworker population.

“While most people in rich countries will probably have access to a vaccine this year, those in poor countries will likely have to wait years to get vaccinated,” says Nicole Hassoun, visiting scholar at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. “However, poor countries might rely on the tourism international travel brings, and in some cases even do worse, all things considered, without it.”

A new cycle of grants from the Migrations initiative seeks to support work in migrations-related research, pedagogy and engagement with a specific focus on racism and dispossession.

Migrations fellows Stephen Yale-Loehr and Gunisha Kaur received new funding for their project, "Advancing the health of refugees by increasing knowledge of legal rights through digital tools," from Cornell's Office of Academic Integration.

We bring migration scholars Filiz Garip and Ingrid Boas into conversation this week to talk about climate. They teach us about the ways that climate affects human movements, discuss the politics of the term "climate refugees," and explain how gradual weather change compares to extreme events. 

Molly O’Toole ’09, an immigration and security reporter with the Los Angeles Times, has been named the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences.

The program brings accomplished journalists to Cornell each year to interact with faculty, researchers and students. Marc Lacey ’87, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, was the inaugural distinguished journalist in 2020.