A&S Media Report - 8/9/2019

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241 external media stories tracked
1 press release tip sheet distributed
3 Cornell Chronicle stories
2 Cornell Daily Sun stories
8 A&S Website stories
19 Tweets
4 Facebook posts
1 Instagram post

Sciences and Math

Potentially habitable Earth-like planet discovered 31 light years away

CBS and 111 other media outlets
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

Grants fund students’ summer research experiences


A&S Communications
Related People: Martha P. Haynes , Chris Zobek ’20, Sneha Sharma '21, Brianna Montalvo '20
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Astronomy

Hubble Uncovers 'Heavy Metal' Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football


A&S Communications
Related People: Nikole Lewis
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

Baskin wins young investigator award for lipid research

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jeremy M. Baskin , graduate student Adnan Shami Shah
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Future of Cell-Sized Robots

Curiosity Daily Podcast
Related People: Paul McEuen
Related Department or Program: Physics

Cornell’s Baskin receives Investigator Award for work researching lipids

I100 Rocks
Related People: Jeremy M. Baskin
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

That Vexing Math Equation? Here’s an Addition

New York Times and 38 other media outlets
Related People: Steven Strogatz
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

NSF funds two discipline-based education research projects


A&S Communications
Related People: Natasha Holmes
Related Department or Program: Physics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Social Sciences

How China's orchestrated tours of Xinjiang echo the 'Potemkin villages' of authoritarian regimes

ABC (Australian Broadcast)
Related People: Magnus Fiskesjö
Related Department or Program: Anthropology

America’s relationship with scientists? It’s complicated.

Washington Post
Related People: Jamila Michener
Related Department or Program: Government

Study finds racial bias in tweets flagged as hate speech

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Graduate student Thomas Davidson
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Mexico’s threats to take legal action against the US for El Paso, explained

Vox and 6 other media outlets
Related People: Gustavo A. Flores-Macías
Related Department or Program: Government

Your Town Ithaca: Cornell University, the home of the Moog synthesizer

CNY TV
Related People: Trevor J Pinch
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies

Doctoral students win awards for research


A&S Communications
Related People: Graduate students Pauliina Patana, Mariel Barnes
Related Department or Program: Government

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Georgia Elementary School Is Accused of Racial Insensitivity Over Hairstyle Guidelines Display

New York Times and 4 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center

Students fight violence, support NYC artists during summer experiences


A&S Communications
Related People: Isis Encinas ’20, Rebecca Reuning ’21
Related Department or Program: Romance Studies, Psychology, Literatures in English, Latina/o Studies Program, Classics

A plea to progressive political pundits: Stop wringing your hands

The Hill
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

US novelist Toni Morrison dies (audio, begins at 27:25)

BBC and 5 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center

America Reacts to Toni Morrison’s M.A. ’55 Death: Throughout Her Life, Morrison’s Work Moved Cornellians and The Nation

Cornell Daily Sun
Related People: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, Africana Studies and Research Center

Cornell Remembers Alum Toni Morrison

WSKG
Related People: Riché Richardson , Anne Adams
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center

The Precarity of Black Motherhood

Boston Review
Related People: Tao Leigh Goffe
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center

The Racial Roots Behind The Term 'Nappy'

NPR and 48 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center

Humanities and Arts

Two hundred years later, Herman Melville’s books are talking eloquently to the modern world

Scroll In and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Aaron Sachs
Related Department or Program: History

How Never-Trump Republicans went extinct

Washington Post
Related People: Lawrence B. Glickman
Related Department or Program: History, American Studies Program

The Liberal Who Told Reagan’s Favorite Joke

Boston Review
Related People: Lawrence B. Glickman
Related Department or Program: History

Why Amazon pays warehouse employees to tweet about their jobs

Vox
Related People: Lawrence B. Glickman
Related Department or Program: History, American Studies Program

How Spahn Ranch Became a Headquarters for the Manson Family Cult

History.com
Related People: Claudia Verhoeven
Related Department or Program: History

Men's fitness regimens can be extreme — but how do you know when it's getting unhealthy?

Mic
Related People: Adrienne Bitar
Related Department or Program: History

Other

ILR program fellows spend summer with NYS lawmakers

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Wendy Lau ’22
Related Department or Program:
 
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