A&S Media Report - 6/12/2020

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134 external media stories tracked
2 press release tip sheets distributed
11 Cornell Chronicle stories
1 Internal Cornell Platform story
1 Cornell Daily Sun story
14 A&S Website stories
27 Tweets
6 Facebook posts
2 Instagram posts

Social Sciences

Calling Police Investigations ‘Contact Tracing’ Could Block Efforts to Stop Covid-19

One Zero
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Punish China over Hong Kong? Why Trump may pull his punches

Christian Science Monitor
Related People: Allen R. Carlson
Related Department or Program: Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

The Promise and Risks of Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History

War on the Rocks
Related People: Rebecca Slayton
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies

What We’re Reading This Summer

The New Yorker and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Suzanne Mettler
Related Department or Program: Government

China reins in nationalists clamoring for an invasion of Taiwan

Los Angeles Times and 2 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

Expect Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to escalate US-China tit-for-tat this year, with Hong Kong caught in the middle

South China Morning Post and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Allen R. Carlson
Related Department or Program: Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

As Minneapolis moves to dismantle police force, calls rise to 'defund' departments

KOMO News and 32 other media outlets
Related People: Sabrina Karim
Related Department or Program: Government

Data on virus infections in India isn’t all gloomy

LiveMint and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Protests in a pandemic present dilemma for scientists

Financial Times
Related People: Bruce V. Lewenstein
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies

Never before have threats to US democracy been so grave, says political scientist

PRI and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Suzanne Mettler
Related Department or Program: Government

The Case for Cohorts

Inside Higher Ed
Related People: Kim Weeden
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Good News and Bad News about COVID-19 Misinformation

Scientific American Blog Network
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Committees established for policy school, superdepartments

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Thomas Pepinsky
Related Department or Program: Sociology, Psychology, Government, Economics

New Study: Female Employees Receive Less Useful Feedback

Inc.com
Related People: Vivian Zayas , Lily Jampol, Ph.D. '14
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Martin Luther King Knew That There’s Nothing Peaceful About Nonviolence If You’re Doing It Right

Jacobin Magazine
Related People: Alexander Livingston
Related Department or Program: Government

Place doesn’t trump race as predictor of incarceration

Cornell Chronicle
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Sociology

The Political and Economic Impact of Covid-19 in Southeast Asia

National Bureau of Asian Research
Related People: Thomas Pepinsky
Related Department or Program: Government

George Floyd’s killing was just the spark. Here’s what really made the protests explode.

Washington Post and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Jamila Michener
Related Department or Program: Government

How police departments got billions of dollars of tactical military equipment - Marketplace

Marketplace
Related People: Sabrina Karim
Related Department or Program: Government

How Protests Over George Floyd’s Killing Spread Around the World

Wall Street Journal
Related People: Sidney Tarrow
Related Department or Program: Government

Drosten remains with statements about the risk of infection from children (German)

Der Spiegel and 22 other media outlets
Related People: Jörg Stoye
Related Department or Program: Economics

The pandemic job divide: Those who can stay safe at home, and those who can’t

Vox and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Kim Weeden
Related Department or Program: Sociology, Center for the Study of Inequality

Sciences and Math

One Weird Trick to Make Calculus More Beautiful

Scientific American
Related People: Steven Strogatz
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

New ‘climate decoder’ to study potentially habitable exoplanets

Earth Sky Magazine and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

That swing: Many systems hinge on ‘pivotal components’

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Paul Ginsparg
Related Department or Program: Physics

New high pressure allotrope of nitrogen solves a chemical mystery

Chemistry World
Related People: Roald Hoffmann
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Tiny Smartphones Eyed for Next-Gen Microprocessors

Design News
Related People: Paul McEuen
Related Department or Program: Physics

Kaltenegger details diversity of exoplanets in lecture

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

Humanities and Arts

The Films That Understand Why People Riot


The Atlantic
Related People: Samantha Noelle Sheppard
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts

Two named Kaplan faculty fellows for service-learning work

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jon McKenzie
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

(Virtual) Things to Do, June 12-26, 2020

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Rachel Beatty Riedl
Related Department or Program: Language Resource Center, Government

Thousands connect virtually for Reunion 2020

Ezra
Related People: Ray Jayawardhana , Jimmy Smits, MFA ’82
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts, Music, Astronomy

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Is distance learning causing students to fall behind?

SILive.com
Related People:
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center

Will the death of George Floyd mark a turning point? (video)

TRT World Now
Related People: Carole Boyce Davies
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center

Twitter and Square Make Juneteenth a Company Holiday

New York Times and 23 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center

Holding the Ethiopian old guard accountable for alleged war crimes

The Jerusalem Post
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Trump’s Juneteenth rally in Tulsa to inflame racial tension


A&S Communications
Related People:
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center

Professor joins UNESCO forum on world after COVID-19

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: N‘Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center

Diverse alums gather for conversations on race, justice

Ezra
Related People: Jolene K. Rickard , Kamillah Knight ’13, MPA ’15, LaToya Brackett ’06
Related Department or Program: Sociology, History of Art and Visual Studies, Economics, American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center

Migrations: Understanding the Implications of a World on the Move (video)

Global Cornell
Related People: Rachel Beatty Riedl
Related Department or Program: Sociology, History, Government

Social Sciences, Sciences and Math, Humanities and Arts

PMA prof named new director of Milstein Program


A&S Communications
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts, Literatures in English
 
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