Experts in the News

“At the end of the day, getting back together will give the right impression,” said U.S.-Mexico Center director Tony Payan as President Biden convened a meeting Thursday with the leaders of Canada and Mexico. “The bad news is that the issues are many and thorny.”

“The thing really bedeviling people right now is this conflict between the short term and long term,” said energy fellow Jim Krane. "We still need this energy system that is basically causing climate change, even as we’re fighting climate change."

Greg Abbott is potentially vulnerable, but at this early stage, "any Republican starts off a race in Texas with somewhere between an eight or 10-point advantage," said political science fellow Mark Jones.

A 10,000-strong migrant caravan appears to be headed toward the U.S.-Mexico border on Nov. 18 — the same day President Biden is scheduled to meet with Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to talk about immigration, among other things. “It seems to me that Mexico is using the caravans as leverage [against] the United States," said Tony Payan, director of the Center for the U.S. and Mexico. Payan explained why the timing could be more than coincidence.

The Baker Institute congratulates Huda Zoghbi — Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine's Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute director, and a Baker Institute board member — who is the co-recipient of the world's largest neuroscience award, known as the "Brain Prize": https://bit.ly/3qtygrB WATCH: "I went into science because I wanted to help people with Rett Syndrome. That was my inspiration," said Zoghbi in a video, with co-recipient Sir Adrian Bird of University of Edinburgh, about the $1.5 million award. Her remarks on science start at the 0.35 mark: https://bit.ly/30b8Jbp