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PBS News Hour

“Not everything is going to decline in exactly the same way,” says Corrie Moreau, a professor of entomology at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who was not involved in the new research. “But we are seeing, in this study and others, that insects are in a rapid fall.”

The Wall Street Journal

Jura Liaukonyte, associate professor of marketing and management communication at Dyson, discusses the findings of her study on the impact of TV ads on stock prices. “If I were to guess, most of the firms don’t know about this,” she says.

NPR

“Hydroponic farms in schools help to increase children's willingness to try fresh fruits and vegetables because they are learning about it and involved in growing it,” says Heather Kolakowski, a lecturer at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration. “It has a more positive impact than saying, ‘Here, try this salad.’”

The New York Times

As with picking, trucking may be fully automated one day. In the meantime, said Karen Levy, a sociologist at Cornell University who has studied the trucking industry, “what you end up doing is making people better cogs.”

Los Angeles Times

Alex Susskind, professor of food and beverage management at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration comments on a chain of cafe specializing in artisan drinks that has been dubbed the "Vietnamese Starbucks."

Wired

The story features work by a group of researchers at Cornell Tech, led by Diane Freed and Sam Havron. The group is studying "stalkerware," a class of spyware distinguished by the fact that it's typically installed on a target device by someone with both physical access to the phone and an intimate relationship with its owner.

NPR

In a recent paper, Eva Meemken, an agricultural economist at Cornell, found that Fair Trade-certified cooperatives pay higher wages to member farmers, but those benefits did not extend to hired workers.

Vox

Cornell assistant professor of communication Brooke Erin Duffy explained to Vox, “The very limiting portrayals of gender which have sustained the advertising industry for well over a century no longer resonate with our social world.”

The Atlantic

“The interstellar medium between stars in our galaxy is a better vacuum than the vacuums we have in labs, and the intergalactic medium is orders of magnitude emptier than even that,” says Shami Chatterjee, senior researcher at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science. 

Vice

Jens David Ohlin, vice dean at Cornell Law School, is quoted in this article on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s July 17 public appearance. Ohlin says, “Will he be the political savior that Democrats are hoping for? I wouldn’t hold my breath.”

The New York Times

"China seems willing to offer Trump many concessions to de-escalate trade tensions," says Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell. "But it is unlikely to cave in to demands that it change its economic model or industrial strategy. Such actions would go against the grain of Chinese leaders and their vision of China's economic future."

Inside Higher Ed

Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law practice, is quoted in this article on international students’ work authorization application processing. He says, “work is now understood to be more integral to a person’s education generally.”