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Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Rabies prevention is a matter of education, vaccination

September 25, 2017

Elizabeth Bunting, Gen Meredith, Karyn Havas and Caroline Yancey explain the impact of rabies worldwide and provide prevention tips.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Supreme Court to decide LGTBQ+ civil rights, ‘right to work’

October 8, 2019

Stephen Vider, assistant professor of history at Cornell University, says that the upcoming employment discrimination cases heard by the Supreme Court represent a critical shift in LGBTQ+ law.  

Law and Policy
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Arts & Humanities

Dairy farmers harness tech and management smarts to curb methane emissions

November 2, 2017

Curt Gooch, a senior extension associate at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, researches agricultural air emissions and dairy sustainability. He says dairy farmers are using management strategies and new technology to lower their greenhouse gas footprint.

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Food & Agriculture

Apple expert explains the history of Gala vs. Red Delicious plus what to expect from the 2018 season

September 19, 2018

With the U.S. Apple Association predicting Gala will take the title of most popular apple replacing Red Delicious, Susan Brown, professor of horticulture and world-renowned apple breeder provides the history behind both varieties. Brown also says regardless of which type you prefer, this will be a great year for apples.

Food & Agriculture
Agriculture and Life Sciences

Mexico quake amongst largest intermediate-depth earthquakes ever recorded

September 8, 2017

Earlier today, a massive earthquake hit Mexico rattling the country’s capital and killing dozens of people. Geoff Abers, an expert of earthquake seismology and a professor of geophysics at Cornell University, says current estimates of an 8.2-magnitude makes this among the largest intermediate-depth earthquakes ever recorded.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Experts list: U.S. Congress to consider immigration

February 18, 2021

Cornell University experts are available to weigh in on Congress taking up either Biden's immigration wide-ranging bill or smaller pieces of legislation, offering historical, legal and labor perspectives.

Law and Policy
Industrial and Labor Relations
Arts and Sciences
Law School

Flexible ‘soft robots’ offer new possibilities for space exploration

May 9, 2019

Robert Shepherd, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, comments on the benefits of soft robots for space exploration.

Physical Sciences & Engineering
Engineering

Soyuz rocket failure and emergency landing signals ‘mature’ spaceflight tech

October 11, 2018

Mason Peck, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University and former NASA Chief Technologist comments on the failure of a Soyuz rocket launch and emergency landing.

Physical Sciences & Engineering
Engineering

Despite devastation from forest fires, ecosystems rise from the ashes

October 24, 2017

The California wildfires have left a trail of devastation in their wake, killing dozens of people and burning hundreds of acres across the state. Amanda Rodewald, an expert in wildlife ecology and conservation biology at Cornell University, says that ­­– as efforts continue to extinguish new fires and clean-up the environment – we must remember that fire also is a natural process and essential to maintaining fire-dependent ecosystems.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

‘Windshield effect’ taken to new extremes in U.N. biodiversity report

May 6, 2019

Scott McArt, a professor of entomology at Cornell University, comments on a new United Nations report, which says up to 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction due to human activity.

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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