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Vice

Jens David Ohlin, vice dean at Cornell Law School, is quoted in this article on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s July 17 public appearance. Ohlin says, “Will he be the political savior that Democrats are hoping for? I wouldn’t hold my breath.”

The New York Times

"China seems willing to offer Trump many concessions to de-escalate trade tensions," says Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell. "But it is unlikely to cave in to demands that it change its economic model or industrial strategy. Such actions would go against the grain of Chinese leaders and their vision of China's economic future."

Inside Higher Ed

Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law practice, is quoted in this article on international students’ work authorization application processing. He says, “work is now understood to be more integral to a person’s education generally.”

CNN

Mason Peck, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Ray Jayawardhana, Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of astronomy, are quoted in coverage of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

The Washington Post

Op-ed co-written by Sarah Kreps, professor of government, on what you need to know about drones and military escalation as the possibility of a confrontation looms.

PBS News Hour

Associate professor in the College of Engineering, Robert Shepard has engineered a robotic lionfish with synthetic arteries. The “blood” that runs through it serves as both the robot’s power source and controls its movement. This development may propel a new wave of soft robots.

CNN Business

Facebook recently unveiled its digital currency project. Computer science professor, Ari Juels says this kind of “stable coin” is highly unusual among cryptocurrencies.

The New York Times

Jessica Chen Weiss, an associate professor at Cornell who studies Chinese foreign policy and public opinion says: “What little the Chinese public knows of the developments in Hong Kong is largely filtered and framed by the Chinese media to minimize the risk that demands for political freedom spread across the border into mainland China.”

The Wall Street Journal

Soo Kim, assistant professor of marketing, weighs in on the biggest ways Americans waste money.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

A new book written by Donald Rakow, associate professor of horticulture and Gregory Eells, Cornell's director of counseling and psychological services, describes how colleges can use their campuses’ natural settings to combat a common problem — unhealthy stress among students and employees.

Vox

Brooke Erin Duffy, assistant professor of communication, is interviewed on the UK law that bans advertisers from using gender stereotypes to sell products.

NPR

"It's not exactly clear why we're seeing this big swarm now that we haven't before," says John Losey, professor of entomology at CALS and director of The Lost Ladybug Project. "But somehow, the combination of cues must have all sort of synchronized so that they went at a very similar time."