New York’s foliage season has begun with fall colors starting to appear in the North Country, Central New York, Mid-Hudson and Capital regions. Cornell University experts Taryn Bauerle and Daniel Weitoish offer a foliage forecast for New York.
Jonathan Lunine, an astrophysicist who studies the origin of life in exotic environments in space, comments on the discovery of the chemical compound phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus.
Facebook posts about birthdays and anniversaries prompt users to reflect on the passage of time and the patterns of their lives, according to new Cornell research.
John Tobin, an expert on environmental and energy economics, comments on a new report from a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission advisory panel that calls climate change a threat to the U.S. financial system.
On Thursday, the Senate failed to pass a pared-down coronavirus relief package and the U.S. Department of Labor reported more than 857,000 workers filed new unemployment claims in the past week. Russell Weaver, an economic geographer with Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Buffalo Co-Lab says an increase in job losses are likely if appropriate actions are not taken to stimulate the economy.
Daniel Alpert, senior fellow and adjunct professor of macroeconomics at Cornell Law School, says that in many respects the Republican proposal is “no answer” for struggling American families.
Vijay Pendakur, the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students, will be departing Cornell to become the chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at the tech company Zynga.
Tyler Valeska is a fellow at the Cornell University Law School First Amendment Clinic, and says that the recent protests in Rochester over the killing of Daniel Prude signify the importance of First Amendment protections for protestors and journalists.
In the first video of the new series, President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff discuss the start of the semester, COVID-19 testing and how Cornell is working to protect the campus community and greater Ithaca area.
