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Cornell Expert Quotes

Cornellians weigh in on current events in the news

"As Trump showed, even negative buzz is good, especially for front runners, because it can suck attention away from challengers (remember during GOP debate when he talked about his ‘hands’)."

Drew Margolin

Assistant Professor

Topic	Name	Date
Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine , Veterinary Medicine	Steven Osofsky Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health and Health Policy	04/16/18
	"The U.S. Department of the Interior, whose stated mission is focused on protecting and managing the nation’s natural resources, continues to betray that mission as well as the American public." Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: ‘Scrambled like an egg’: New Migratory Bird Treaty Act interpretation reverses decades of policy (04/16/18)
International , Foreign Policy , Law and Policy , Arts and Sciences , Cornell SC Johnson College of Business	Lourdes Casanova director of the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University	04/16/18
	"Raul Castro, generally considered a hardliner, will stay on as head of the Communist Party and from there, he will try to keep control on the new president’ policies. It remains to be seen how these internal politics will play out with the demands of Cubans for more political freedom and a better economy.” Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049 Related Tip Sheet: No more Castro: Cuba’s change of guards starts a day early (04/16/18)
International , Foreign Policy , Law and Policy , Arts and Sciences , Cornell SC Johnson College of Business	Gustavo A. Flores-Macías Associate Professor	04/16/18
	“Without a Castro formally at the head of the Cuban government, a younger leader without the legitimacy of the revolution will have to navigate the island’s many domestic and international challenges, from resolving Cuba’s problematic dual currency system to weathering President Trump’s return to a Cold War antagonism in U.S.-Cuba relations.” Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049 Related Tip Sheet: No more Castro: Cuba’s change of guards starts a day early (04/16/18)
Physical Sciences & Engineering , Arts and Sciences	Lisa Kaltenegger Professor of Astronomy, Director of the Carl Sagan Institute	04/10/18
	"When looking up at night, we will be able to point at bright stars in the night sky and say - right there, there is a star that hosts another Venus, Mars, or maybe even another Earth." Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: TESS satellite to hunt for new worlds ‘in our cosmic backyard’ (04/10/18)
Economics and Business , International , Industrial and Labor Relations	Arthur Wheaton Director of Western NY Labor and Environmental Programs for the Worker Institute	04/10/18
	"Change in VW's executive ranks would be a good step in changing the arrogance displayed by the corporation. I don’t think the change in itself will satisfy anyone but it is a first step.” Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049 Related Tip Sheet: Long-overdue VW shakeup is first step to tune up (04/10/18)
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship , Industrial and Labor Relations , Law and Policy	Adam Seth Litwin Associate Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell’s ILR School	04/05/18
	"What makes the gig economy interesting from the standpoint of pay is that the customer and the employer are essentially the same person. Add that to the way the gig economy commoditizes work and we have a recipe for maintaining if not increasing the gender pay gap." Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049 Related Tip Sheet: Women lose in gig economy, pay gap persists (04/05/18)
Energy, Environment & Sustainability , Engineering , Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future	Eilyan Bitar David Croll Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow	04/04/18
	“The intelligent deployment and coordinated operation of electric energy storage devices with intermittent renewable energy resources (like wind and solar power plants) has the potential to substantially improve the cleanliness and reliability of the electric power grid." Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: Wind-battery fusion may spark cleaner, more reliable electric grid (04/04/18)
Engineering , Health, Nutrition & Medicine	Ilana Lauren Brito Assistant professor of biomedical engineering	04/04/18
	"We want to be able to personalize antibiotic use so that it takes into account what is lurking in individual's bodies." Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: Faster diagnostics, personalized antibiotics needed to halt superbugs (04/04/18)
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship , New York City , Cornell SC Johnson College of Business , Johnson Graduate School of Management	Drew Pascarella Lecturer of Finance	04/03/18
	"Spotify is different. Most pre-IPO companies don’t have shareholder bases that look like that of Spotify. I don’t see this as the beginning of the end of investment banks as IPO underwriters; this is a one-off, unique situation." Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049 Related Tip Sheet: Spotify’s NYSE debut is unique, does not signal broader shift (04/03/18)
Arts and Sciences , Arts & Humanities	Robert L. Harris Jr. Professor emeritus of African American history and former director of the Africana Studies and Research Center	04/02/18
	“When Dr. King was assassinated, my wife and I decided that we would move to Birmingham, Alabama, and teach at historically black Miles College. I had decided that I would devote my talents to the education of African Americans, rather than trying to improve race relations.” Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: Through the generations: Personal reflections on MLK’s life and death (04/02/18)

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