Bio: Talbot M. Andrews is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. She studies how policy design and the changing environment interact with individuals’ attitudes to shape their behavior related to environmental policy. She is also more broadly interested in the public’s ability to hold their elected officials accountable. While most of her work is based in the United States, she also works with a team studying climate change literacy across Africa. Her book, Climate Games: Experiments on How People Prevent Disaster uses lab experiments to examine how the strategic features of climate change help and hinder successful disaster prevention. Prior to joining Cornell, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut (2021-2024), and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University (2020-2021). She completed her PhD in political Science at Stony Brook University in 2020.

This event is presented as part of the 2026 Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge Seminar Series:

• Most Mondays, Spring Semester 2026, 2:55-4:10 p.m.
• Zoom Link TBA

This university-wide seminar series is open to the public (via Zoom), and provides important views on the critical issue of climate change, drawing from many perspectives and disciplines. Experts from Cornell University and beyond present an overview of the science of climate change and climate change models, the implications for agriculture, ecosystems, and food systems, and provide important economic, ethical, and policy insights on the issue. The seminar is being organized and sponsored by the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.