Todd Cowen, faculty director for energy at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, says large events like the Olympics face a challenge when trying to be sustainable because they require people to fly in from around the world. Jennifer Minner, assistant professor of city and regional planning, says Olympic cities often produce facilities for use only for the time of the Olympics and which are later left in disuse.

This feature of Cornell Tech quotes the dean of the school Daniel Huttenlocher, and head of the school's Startup Studio David Tisch. Huttenlocher explains the mission of Cornell Tech while Tisch discusses the hands-on Studio curriculum.

Chris Mason, a biomedical researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine, found that space travel can cause unique gene mutations in the body.

“The current La Niña and long-term trends are tipping the outlooks to favor above-normal temps for March and spring for part of the Northeast,” said Jessica Spaccio, a climatologist with the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.

Rachel Lustgarten, clinical dietitian at Weill Cornell Medicine, suggests blueberries and Babybel cheese as an easy snack that is ideal for work.

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Dr. Chris Mason, a geneticist at Weill Cornell Medicine, says "high touch" surfaces like door handles, the kitchen sink, and elevator buttons are where one might find the most microbes and influenza.

Research by Vivian Zayas, director of the personality, attachment, and control lab, shows that the impressions we form of others’ personalities from photographs line up with the way we later judge them in person, at least initially.

Martin Wiedmann, professor of food safety comments on IWasPoisoned.com, a website that allows users to post reports of food poisoning.

Rick Geddes, director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy, says Washington should move away from the idea of infrastructure investments as an economic stimulus policy and instead focus on ways to give state and local governments incentives to invest in new technologies.

Last fall, Cornell introduced a data science course taught by assistant professor in information science Solon Barocas, where students learned to deal with ethical challenges. In another Cornell course, Karen Levy, also an assistant professor in information science, is teaching her students to focus more on the ethics of tech companies.

Lisa Mosconi, assistant professor of neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine, weighs in on how a person’s diet impacts their thoughts and actions.

Research by herpetologist Harry W. Greene found 971 seeds in 49 snakes’ guts speculating that the particularly rich nutritional microenvironment of snake feces is particularly advantageous for germinating seeds.