Paul Mutolo, a chemist and director of External Partnerships for the Energy Materials Center at Cornell University, explains that as renewable sources of energy like wind and solar gain traction, scientists and engineers are eyeing new ways to store that energy in a cost-efficient manner.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Engineering

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Cornell faculty members will join thousands of their counterparts April 22 as they sound a call for supporting scientific research and evidence-based policies during an historic March for Science in Washington, D.C. The following Cornell experts are attending the march and are available for comment:

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Arts and Sciences

Engineering

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Timur Dogan, an architect, building scientist, and a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, comments on New York City legislation that would set greenhouse gas emission caps for buildings.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Dong Lai, professor of astronomy at Cornell University and an expert on black holes, comments on an upcoming "groundbreaking" announcement from astronomers on the Event Horizon Telescope team.

Arts and Sciences

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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Lisa Kaltenegger, director of Cornell University’s Carl Sagan Institute, comments on the discovery of a tiny planet around a white dwarf star.

Arts and Sciences

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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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

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Arthur Wheaton, director of Western NY Labor and Environmental Programs for the Worker Institute at Cornell University, comments on Walmart's announcement that it will add thousands of robots to its stores.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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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

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European Union leaders are meeting on Thursday to discuss how to power the bloc’s economic recovery and help its hardest-hit members weather the current crisis. Christopher Way, associate professor of government and an expert in European politics and political economy, says that the task at hand for European leaders is not easy. 

International

Arts and Sciences

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President Trump is expected to announce that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris climate accords, a global pact designed to fight climate change. Two experts at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University say that withdrawing from the accords would be a major mistake, both environmentally and economically. 

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Engineering

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