Expert Pitch

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

The growing scandal over the manipulation by British banks of the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor, creates complex legal issues for U.S. financial regulation, according to an Indiana University Maurer School of Law expert.

• share
• favorite_border

Data released this week paints a grim picture for farmers throughout the United States. Almost everywhere, fruit, crop, livestock and dairy farmers are being choked by the driest growing season since 1956. Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University are available to talk with the media about the impacts of the Drought of 2012.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

David R. Just, leading behavioral economist and associate professor of economics in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, discusses pending Farm Bill legislation that would reduce funding to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by up to $16 billion over the next decade. Such legislation would strictly hold all recipients to the income test requirements, disqualifying millions of households from getting aid that now qualify despite not meeting the income tests.

• share
• favorite_border

Jessica Rennells, a climatologist and extension support specialist at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, comments on data released today by the center that shows the region’s July heat wave broke records for longevity, and came close to all-time temperature records.

• share
• favorite_border

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on compulsory union dues has implications far beyond the language of the holding, according to an Indiana University Maurer School of Law expert.

• share
• favorite_border

Nova Southeastern University Professor, Mahmood Shivji, Ph.D., is available for media interviews on recent great white shark sightings and attacks.

• share
• favorite_border

Not ready to claim discovery yet, Texas Tech researchers discuss the "impression" or "shadow" left by some unknown particle.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

News reports indicate that Rep. Darrell Issa (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, dropped confidential information from a Justice Department wiretap application into the Congressional Record last week. “While the executive branch sometimes seeks civil or criminal penalties against those who reveal confidential information, it cannot seek such penalties against Issa because the speech or debate clause of the constitution protects members of Congress when they expose sensitive information in the Congressional Record,” says Kathleen Clark, JD, government ethics expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.

• share
• favorite_border

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers Wesley Smith and Sau Lan Wu, who have leading roles in experiments to find the Higgs boson, are available to comment on the most recent developments in the search. The Higgs boson is an elusive particle expected to hold key information about how the universe is built. An announcement from the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collaboration is scheduled for 2 a.m. CDT July 4.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

The Large Hadron Collider’s two experimental research collaborations at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, will announce the latest results in their search for the Higgs boson at 2 a.m. CDT Wednesday, July 4. University of Chicago physicists will be available to comment on the new findings.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, President of The New York Academy of Medicine, one of the nation’s oldest and preeminent medical academies, is available to comment on the landmark ruling regarding the constitutional legality of the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down its ruling on Thursday, June 28, 2012.

• share
• favorite_border

“The Republicans in the House of Representatives apparently believe that they can get some political traction in the ‘Fast and Furious’ controversy, and plan to increase the political pressure on the Obama administration to disclose additional information by holding Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal and civil contempt,” says Kathleen Clark, JD, government ethics expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “The criminal contempt is essentially symbolical,” Clark says. She notes that the federal prosecutor actually works for Holder, and almost certainly will not prosecute his boss.

• share
• favorite_border

“Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion on the Affordable Care Act mostly conforms with the way I previously understood the taxing power of the federal government,” says Adam Rosenzweig, JD, tax law expert and associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Rosenzweig says that there were two important pieces of the Roberts opinion from a tax standpoint.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border