Alyssa Wetterau Kaganer, postdoctoral associate at the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab, notes, “There is innovative research going on all around the world as stellar scientists explore different frog immunity, genetics, microbiome, and environmental treatment options.”

David Bateman, associate professor of government, says, “The biggest threat to trust in institutions was the Trump campaign’s refusal to concede the election and insistence that they had won. That validated the idea that the whole institutional system is rigged, which it isn’t.”

This article discusses the benefits of prison education and mentions that Cornell offers liberal arts education in four upstate New York prisons.

Conor Taff, research associate at the Lab of Ornithology, discusses the challenges of keeping birds healthy as the climate changes.

Aditya Vashistha, an assistant professor of information science, says, “Even if the rationale behind creating a paywall is right, such policies would broaden the digital divide, making it difficult for people in the Philippines to be part of a global community on X compared to those in New Zealand.”

Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, says, “It takes a lot of natural gas to make hydrogen, since the methane in the natural gas is the chemical feedstock for the process, and natural gas is also burned to power the chemical process of breaking the methane down into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. So, the emissions of carbon dioxide are quite high.”

Jason Londo, associate professor of fruit crop physiology, joins NPR to discuss the impact of climate change on fruit crops.

James Cutting, professor of psychology emeritus, joins CBS Sunday Morning to discuss shortened attention spans.

Art Wheaton, senior extension associate at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, says, “Shutting down Ford's Kentucky truck plant has started to ratchet up pressure on GM and Stellantis and they're starting to make progress.”

In this America at a Crossroads segment, Judy Woodroof interviewed President Pollack and Cornell students about the Freedom of Expression theme year and the importance of civil discourse on college campuses.

“People are desperate for information and social media context may actively interfere with people’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction,” says Gordon Pennycook, associate professor of psychology.

Coverage of Claudia Goldin ’67, who just won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and the importance of her work in the male-dominated field of economics.