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Expert Quotes
“The responsibility for these conversations should be on district officials and not on the families caught in what is an impossible decision. Democracy should mean their concerns matter as much as those in politics.”
Noliwe Rooks
Professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Featured Video
In the fifth installment of the Cornell Leadership Sessions video series, President Martha E. Pollack and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Lisa Nishii discuss getting out to vote; “semifinal” exams during the third and fourth weeks of November; preparing for the spring semester; and the importance of adhering to public health guidelines and of self-care. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.
In The News
“These spiders are a gold mine of information that have just gone untapped for a really long time,” says study coauthor Jay Stafstrom, a postdoctoral researcher in neurobiology and behavior.
“The figure for estimated GDP growth in the third quarter will be dramatic, and will have absolutely zero effect on the election,” says Christopher Way, associate professor of government.
The article features two new apples co-created by Susan Brown, professor of horticulture.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff co-writes this opinion piece with Jack Lipton, a colleague from the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University, calling for the creation of a U.S. Biomedical National Guard that would create a corps of federally directed research institutions and scientists to supply biomedical expertise and lab infrastructure during disasters such as the one we are in now.
Laurent Dubreuil, professor of literature, writes this opinion piece about how cancel culture converged with Islamist extremism in the murder of Samuel Paty, a middle-school teacher in a Paris suburb, by a Chechen refugee.
Tyler Valeska, postdoctoral associate at the Law School, says, “It’s irrelevant whether the general public would not find it controversial. One value the First Amendment protects is dissent. We don’t want the government telling people what something means to them when and for what reasons.”