A&S Media Report - 2/14/2020

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61 external media stories tracked
2 press release tip sheets distributed
8 Cornell Chronicle stories
2 Cornell Daily Sun stories
9 A&S Website stories
15 Tweets
5 Facebook posts
3 Instagram posts

Sciences and Math

The Pale Blue Dot -Anniversary & Astronomy Special (audio, begins 7:31)

WRFI
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

NASA gives JPL green light for mission to bring a piece of Mars back to Earth

Los Angeles Times and 19 other media outlets
Related People: Jonathan Lunine
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

Inquiry-based labs give physics students experimental edge

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Natasha Holmes , graduate students Martin Stein, Cole Walsh
Related Department or Program: Physics

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Phys.org and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Natasha Holmes
Related Department or Program: Physics

Tropical snakes disappearing as fungal outbreak decimates prey

National Geographic and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Kelly Zamudio
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Iconic ‘pale blue dot’ photo – Carl Sagan’s idea – turns 30

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

Face-to-face contact with police builds trust in fledgling states

Phys.org and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Sabrina Karim
Related Department or Program: Government

Astronomers will probe exoplanets with Webb telescope

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Ray Jayawardhana
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

The Repeating Signals From Deep Space Are Extremely Unlikely to Be Aliens. Here's Why

Science Alert and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Paul Ginsparg
Related Department or Program: Physics

NASA’s Webb will seek atmospheres around potentially habitable exoplanets

Defense & Aerospace Daily
Related People: Nikole Lewis
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Faculty, cinema collaborate to show films on Manson murders, gardens, Japanese pop culture

A&S Communications
Related People: Claudia Verhoeven , Doug McLaren, Teresa Alvis, Paul Dimmick
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts, History, Cornell Cinema, Asian Studies

Yiddish Program Expands into Another Semester, Offering Language Study and Cultural Reconnection

The Cornell Daily Sun
Related People: Jonathan Aaron Boyarin , David Forman
Related Department or Program: Near Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies Program, Anthropology

The 10 best books of February 2020

The Christian Science Monitor and 2 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: History, American Studies Program

Class offerings help inform Cornell Cinema’s lineup

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Claudia Verhoeven
Related Department or Program: History, Asian Studies

Norton chronicles road to revolution in ‘1774’

Cornell Chronicle
Related People:
Related Department or Program: History, American Studies Program

Was the New Deal Really a War on Free Enterprise? It's Complicated | Richard Morrison

Foundation for Economic Education
Related People: Lawrence B. Glickman
Related Department or Program: History, American Studies Program

What does Bernie Sanders’ win say about the future of capitalism?

America Magazine
Related People: Eric Cheyfitz
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, American Studies Program

Panel discusses global uncertainties surrounding coronavirus

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jeremy Lee Wallace
Related Department or Program: History, Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

Humanities and Arts

Film screening and discussion to celebrate writer Kahanoff

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Deborah A. Starr
Related Department or Program: Near Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies Program

Kenya’s Longest-Serving Ruler Divides in Death, as in Life

New York Times and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

"1774: The Long Year of Revolution"

Public Radio Tulsa
Related People:
Related Department or Program: History

Social Sciences

The Trump administration approved the U.S. use of land mines. That’s a step back for global campaigns to ban their deployment.

Washington Post
Related People: Graduate student Naomi Egel
Related Department or Program: Government

When it Comes to Digital Authoritarianism, China is a Challenge — But Not the Only Challenge

War on the Rocks and 2 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

Face-to-face contact with police builds trust in fledgling states

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Sabrina Karim
Related Department or Program: Government

McCabe: Intervention in Stone case 'unprecedented'

CNN
Related People: Thomas Pepinsky
Related Department or Program: Government

Social Sciences, Sciences and Math, Humanities and Arts

Things to Do, Feb. 14-21, 2020

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jonathan Lunine
Related Department or Program: Sociology, Near Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature, Astronomy
 
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