Tip Sheets

Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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‘Imagine the feel’ of Martian winds — InSight reports weather from red planet

February 19, 2019

Don Banfield, a research scientist at Cornell University and lead on weather science for NASA's InSight lander, comments on the first weather report from Mars.

Arts and Sciences

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Incentivized funding key to improving US infrastructure

March 3, 2021

Rick Geddes, professor and founding director of Cornell University’s Program in Infrastructure Policy, says the biggest challenge to improving America’s infrastructure is funding.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Bloomberg’s campaign to raise profile of climate innovations

November 25, 2019

Natalie Mahowald says Mayor Bloomberg is on the right track for mitigating and adapting to climate change and will raise the profile of the topic now that he has entered the presidential race.

Law and Policy

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

‘Mild’ Russian sanctions signal need for de-escalation

April 15, 2021

On Thursday, the Biden administration announced economic sanctions on Russia in retaliation for alleged election interference and cyberattacks. Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history at Cornell University, studies the origin and effects of economic sanctions. His first book “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War” is forthcoming with Yale University Press.

International

Arts and Sciences

Middle East deal underscores foreign policy chasms in region

September 15, 2020

Alexandra Blackman, assistant professor of government at Cornell University, comments on the Middle East deal signing Trump will be presiding on Tuesday.

International

Law and Policy

Arts and Sciences

Netanyahu will need ‘all the magic’ to form Israeli government

April 7, 2021

Uriel Abulof says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will need ‘all the magic he can muster’ to form a governing coalition in the wake of elections.

Law and Policy

Trump administration chooses oil exploration at expense of sage grouse

December 6, 2018

John Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and an expert on conservation biology is available for interviews to discuss federal government plans to drastically reduce habitat protections in Western states for the sage grouse.

Lab of Ornithology

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Pfizer vaccine for kids may play ‘critical role’ in return to normalcy

March 31, 2021

Issac Weifsue, medical epidemiologist at Cornell University, says this new data could signal a shift in efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine