Weekly highlights
March 4, 2016

Cornell to fight for food safety as CDC Center of Excellence

In the Blog: • Cuba salutes Cornell ornithologist Eduardo Iñigo-Elias • #WeAreCornell video series returns • Jeff Ayars '13 not horsing around in 'Revenant' parody On CornellCast: • Mason Peck discusses bio-inspired soft robotic rover • Art DeGaetano on the impacts of climate change • Ira Helfand on the growing danger of nuclear war Upcoming Events: • Speakers explore local engagement via stories, March 4 • Art historian to explore Mark Twain's humor, March 8 • Things to Do, March 4-11 Cornell Big Red: • Squash teams send six to national championship • Big Red men host Union in ECAC Hockey playoffs • Bowman wins Ivy track and field coaching award

CORNELLIANS IN THE NEWS


"The growth of incarceration rates among black men in recent decades combined with the sharp drop in black employment rates during the Great Recession have left most black men in a position relative to white men that is really no better than the position they occupied only a few years after the Civil Rights Act of 1965." Cornell economist Armin Rick and University of Chicago economist Derek Neal, arguing that mass incarceration has masked inequality. The Washington Post - Feb. 26

"I greatly appreciate the efforts by prosecutors to get whatever they can, that is their job, but it is also the job of the courts, to let the intent of the public be heard through Congress. This is a matter that should be heard by Congress. We should not be relying on 18th-century language to determine what the laws are." Stephen Wicker, professor of electrical and computer engineering, in an article on the FBI's battle with Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers. MarketWatch - Feb. 26