Tip Sheets

Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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‘New era’ of Sun exploration nears as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe preps for launch

July 25, 2018

Jonathan Lunine, director of the Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University, comments on NASA’s first mission to fly directly into our sun’s atmosphere.

Physical Sciences & Engineering
Arts and Sciences

Brazil National Museum fire a warning to ‘invest in your treasures’

September 28, 2018

Kelly Zamudio, professor and curator of herpetology at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, comments on a fire that destroyed Brazil’s National Museum. 

Arts and Sciences

Masks could be a thing of the past in some New York daycares

March 4, 2022

Maria Fitzpatrick, says the decision to allow children to shed their masks is a difficult one for parents.

China’s global data security initiative is “wholly aspirational”

September 8, 2020

Sarah Kreps and Rebecca Slayton, experts on digital governance and cybersecurity at Cornell, comment on the launch of China's global data security initiative.

International
Law and Policy

Red planet and ‘ocean world’? Lake on Mars boosts potential for life

July 25, 2018

Jonathan Lunine, director of the Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University, comments on newly discovered evidence of a liquid water lake below the surface of Mars.

Physical Sciences & Engineering
Arts and Sciences

White House AI summit signals U.S. leadership in competitive industry

May 10, 2018

Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell University and director of the Intelligent Information Systems Institute comments on a White House summit dedicated to the future of artificial intelligence.

Computing & Information Sciences
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Computing & Information Sciences
Engineering

As shadow of SARS haunts China, U.S. confirms first case of Coronavirus

January 22, 2020

Allen Carlson, associate professor of government at Cornell University and an expert on Chinese politics, says the shadow of SARS is haunting China as it wrestles to bring under control yet another infectious disease outbreak within its borders.

International
Arts and Sciences

Organics on Mars means it’s time to target ‘biosignatures’

June 7, 2018

Jonathan Lunine says the discovery of preserved organics on the Red Planet is a call for new tests directly targeting biosignatures on the Martian surface.

Arts and Sciences

Nobel Prize winners’ exoplanet discovery started a ‘remarkable era of discovery’

October 8, 2019

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to a Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved from the Big Bang and the discovery of the first known planet outside of our solar system. Cornell University experts are available to discuss the impact their work had on our understanding of the cosmos. 

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Remembering Stephen Hawking: a personal story

March 14, 2018

Yangyang Cheng, a particle physicist and postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University, reflects on the legacy of Stephen Hawking and what his work meant to her personally.

Arts and Sciences
Physical Sciences & Engineering