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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
International , Arts and Sciences	Jessica Chen Weiss Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University	07/22/20
	Unless more evidence is forthcoming, the U.S. decision to close the Chinese consulate in Houston looks like a stepped-up effort to use China as the bogeyman and distract U.S. voters from the Trump administration's disastrous response to the pandemic. Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 607-255-6035 Related Tip Sheet: US paints China as bogeyman, closes Houston consulate (07/22/20)
Physical Sciences & Engineering , Arts and Sciences	Don Banfield Senior research associate	07/20/20
	"We’ll actually have InSight, Perseverance and Curiosity operating at the same time on Mars. While they are all quite distant from one another on Mars, comparing the 'weather' results from all of them will likely prove interesting, similar to how one can learn from looking at the weather in Miami, New York, and Tokyo at the same time on Earth." Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: Mars Perseverance to deliver ‘first zoom cameras’ to another world (07/20/20)
Physical Sciences & Engineering , Arts and Sciences	Alexander Hayes Associate Professor of Astronomy	07/20/20
	“The Mastcam-Z are the stereo cameras that are the eyes of the rover, and those cameras are the first zoom cameras that will ever be sent to another world." Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: Mars Perseverance to deliver ‘first zoom cameras’ to another world (07/20/20)
New York City , Arts and Sciences , Industrial and Labor Relations	Lee Adler Senior Extension Associate, Labor and Unions	07/08/20
	"It is easy to yell 'reopen, reopen' from the sidelines, but what every school district in America needs are additional financial resources to purchase safety equipment; to convince bus drivers, chefs and teachers that a very serious safety first regimen is occurring in their schools; to hire more paraprofessionals to assist our administrators in monitoring and ensuring school safety; and to create a continuum of schooling that will allow 40-50 million parents go back to work in one piece. Without federal money, even Mayor de Blasio’s modest effort to reopen the schools will have much difficulty.” Media: Lindsey Hadlock lmh267@cornell.edu 607-269-6911 Related Tip Sheet: NYC school reopening plan puts vulnerable Black, Latinx students at risk (07/08/20)
New York City , Arts and Sciences , Industrial and Labor Relations	Noliwe Rooks Professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies	07/08/20
	“Mayor de Blasio and his superintendent of schools need to immediately make clear how they plan to support the low-income Black and Latinx children and their families who will be greatly impacted by this news, as their children make up a majority of the students educated in the school system.” Media: Lindsey Hadlock lmh267@cornell.edu 607-269-6911 Related Tip Sheet: NYC school reopening plan puts vulnerable Black, Latinx students at risk (07/08/20)
International , Arts and Sciences	Allen R. Carlson Associate Professor in Cornell University’s Government Department	05/21/20
	"The underlying emphasis upon securing Hong Kong clearly reveals that for Xi, Hong Kong is no different than Tibet or Xinjiang." Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 607-255-6035 Related Tip Sheet: China's national security law: For Xi, Hong Kong no different than Tibet, Xinjiang (05/21/20)
Arts and Sciences , Cornell Tech , Computing & Information Sciences	Helen Nissenbaum Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University	05/20/20
	Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: New Apple iOS supports contact tracing — but is meaningless without government adoption (05/20/20)
Arts and Sciences , Cornell Tech , Computing & Information Sciences	Tanzeem Choudhury Professor of Information Sciences at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech	05/20/20
	Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: New Apple iOS supports contact tracing — but is meaningless without government adoption (05/20/20)
Arts and Sciences , Cornell Tech , Computing & Information Sciences	Sarah Kreps Professor of Government	05/20/20
	“The Exposure Notification support will be meaningless until state or regional governments have apps that use the technology Apple and Google developed, but it is an important step in the direction of a tool that will enable policymakers to ease lockdown restrictions." Media: Jeff Tyson jeff.tyson@cornell.edu (607) 793-5769 Related Tip Sheet: New Apple iOS supports contact tracing — but is meaningless without government adoption (05/20/20)
Arts and Sciences	Katherine Houpt James Law Professor Emeritus, Section of Behavior Medicine	05/08/20
	"When you come home don’t greet them until they are calm and not jumping on you or running in circles." Media: Gillian Smith gillian.smith@cornell.edu 607-254-6235 Related Tip Sheet: Preparing pets for post-quarantine life (05/08/20)

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