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Fatal drownings are a big risk for small-scale fishers on Africa’s largest lake, with many of those deaths attributed to bad weather – conditions that are likely to worsen with climate change, according to a new study.
“There aren’t many animal migrations of large, charismatic species that are still totally unknown, but that was the case for southern giant hummingbirds. We wanted to finally solve this mystery,” says Jessie Williamson, postdoctoral fellow at the Lab of Ornithology.
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says the Biden administration is between “a rock and a hard place.
A new interactive map that shows immigration-law service providers across all of Upstate New York launched today, May 8. The map is the result of a collaboration between Cornell Law School’s Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic and the Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative (I-ARC).
From a sociologist accused of treason to a political cartoonist to an Afghan artist, displaced scholars fleeing conflicts in their home countries have found refuge at Cornell, which has hosted more Institute of International Education scholar and artist fellows than any other university in the world.
Ian Davies, extension support specialist, notes that he is in Bear Divide to observe bird migration.
María Cristina García, professor of history, notes that Americans had the same complaints about immigrants 50 years ago.
Professors Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer and Stephen Yale-Loehr have secured a $1.5 million grant from Crankstart for their groundbreaking initiative, the Path2Papers project. Housed at Cornell Law School, this new nonprofit venture helps DACA recipients in the San Francisco Bay Area pursue work visas and other pathways to legal permanent residency. Cornell DACA recipients can also receive consults through this project.
At Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, the work of renowned artist Guadalupe Maravilla is on display in the same space as that of Ingrid Hernandez-Franco, a Salvadoran woman whose asylum case was championed by a Cornell professor and her students.
