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Paul Mutolo, a chemist and director of External Partnerships for the Energy Materials Center at Cornell University, comments on the world's first hydrogen-powered trains, which began service in Germany.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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Nellie Brown, director of Workplace Health & Safety Programs for Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, provides advice for those participating in Hurricane Florence recovery efforts.

Industrial and Labor Relations

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The colors of the 2018 fall foliage season will be delayed and less vibrant, predicts Taryn Bauerle, Cornell University associate professor of plant science, whose research focuses on how plants communicate water stress.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

New York State

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University and a faculty fellow at Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future comments on the Trump administration's plans to make it easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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Arthur DeGaetano, director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, and climatologists Jessica Spaccio and Samantha Borisoff are available for interviews about Hurricane Florence and can discuss landfall probabilities, past similar storms, and anticipated impacts.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Engineering

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Maria Cristina Garcia is a professor of History and Latino studies at Cornell University, and says that the predominant winners of a change in child detention policy are the immigration facilities.

Law and Policy

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Drew Margolin, professor of communication at Cornell University, comments on possible regulation of social media companies.

Computing & Information Sciences

Law, Government & Public Policy

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Swedes will go to the polls on Sep. 9 to elect a new parliament in a historic contest characterized by the rise in popularity of the Sweden Democrats, a nationalistic anti-immigrant party. Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology, says that long held nationalism in Sweden explains the rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats.

International

Law and Policy

Arts and Sciences

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Gustavo Flores-Macias says that the bilateral approach to the new trade deal weakened the Mexican negotiating position and signaled victory for Trump.

International

Law and Policy

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

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Thomas Jungbauer, assistant professor of strategy and business economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, comments on news that Google is testing a censored search engine for the Chinese market.

Computing & Information Sciences

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Johnson Graduate School of Management

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