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“Besides, InSight has perhaps the coolest sequence for setting up its instruments: delicately lifting two of its instruments over the side and gently lowering them onto the surface, like a robot stevedore unloading its cargo on an alien world.”    
Jonathan Lunine

Jonathan Lunine

David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences

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International Reach , Law and Policy , Economics and Business , Industrial and Labor Relations
Christopher Robert Way
Christopher Robert Way

Associate Professor
The wave of right-wing populism in Europe has not yet crested and it could easily surge to new heights in the United Kingdom if elites are perceived as trying to undo or tame the results of the 2016 referendum.
Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049
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International Reach , Law and Policy , Economics and Business , Industrial and Labor Relations
senior research associate at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Ian Greer

senior research associate at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations
"Most Brexiteers do not want socialism, but such a radically new direction in government may turn out to be the direct consequence of their actions.”
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Industrial and Labor Relations , Economics and Business
Maria Lorena Cook
Maria Lorena Cook

Professor of International and Comparative Labor
“Unless Congress acts, hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients stand to lose their deportation relief and work authorization on March 5, 2018, the date that DACA is set to expire."
Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet: Dreamers communities stand to lose in DACA bargain (11/30/17)
Industrial and Labor Relations , Economics and Business
Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law & History at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Shannon Gleeson

Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law & History at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
“With the rescission of DACA, the President and Attorney General have needlessly stripped these immigrants of this critical support, putting the well-being of these immigrants, their families, and their communities in danger. The same is true for the Temporary Protected Status program that Trump is dismantling piece by piece."
Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049
Related Tip Sheet: Dreamers communities stand to lose in DACA bargain (11/30/17)
International Reach , Foreign Policy , Law and Policy , Economics and Business
Annelise Riles

Annelise Riles is the Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law in Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University.

Historians will date this trip as a key moment in the decline of U.S. power in the Asia-Pacific region, when Asian leaders stepped up and took the reins.
Media: Rebecca Valli rv234@cornell.edu 202-434-8049
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