A&S Media Report - 6/26/2020

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120 external media stories tracked
7 Cornell Chronicle stories
3 Internal Cornell Platform stories
2 Cornell Daily Sun stories
10 A&S Website stories
22 Tweets
4 Facebook posts
1 Instagram post

Sciences and Math

Father's Day: I'm a writer because of my dad, but he is still my most challenging subject

USA Today and 7 other media outlets
Related People: Ray Jayawardhana
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Gibt es wirklich 36 intelligente Zivilisationen in der Milchstrasse?

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

Genetic study of Arabian horses challenges some common beliefs about the ancient breed

Phys.org and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Andrew G. Clark
Related Department or Program: Molecular Biology and Genetics

Scientists Taught Mice to Smell an Odor That Doesn’t Exist

Wired
Related People: Christiane Linster
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior

What Does it Mean to Support Vulnerable Students During the Pandemic?

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Related People: Abby Grace Drake , graduate students Stepfanie Aguillon, Gregor-Fausto Siegmund
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Cornell Synchrotron being used to help develop possible drug candidates to fight COVID-19

LocalSYR.com
Related People: Richard A. Cerione
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Lotus Flower Plague-Repellent Pills and Other Gifts From China

New York Times and 7 other media outlets
Related People: Yangyang Cheng
Related Department or Program: Physics

Electric-Powered Organic Chemistry

Cornell Research
Related People: Song Lin
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The Rebel Physicist Trying to Fix Quantum Mechanics

New York Times and 1 other media outlet
Related People: N. David Mermin
Related Department or Program: Physics

Men and women go separate ways: why inquiry-based labs exacerbate gender imbalance

Physicsworld.com
Related People: Natasha Holmes
Related Department or Program: Physics

When Politics and Particles Collide

APS physics
Related People: Yangyang Cheng
Related Department or Program: Physics

Summer program aims to lower barriers for CS majors

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Melissa Psaras ’23
Related Department or Program: Computer science

Humanities and Arts

How fast food got caught in the crossfire of viral social debates, as Shake Shack, Wendy's, and Taco Bell are forced into the spotlight

Business Insider and 10 other media outlets
Related People: Lawrence B. Glickman
Related Department or Program: History, American Studies Program

Historic Slavery and The Making of American Capitalism (audio)

Blog Talk Radio
Related People: Edward E. Baptist
Related Department or Program: History

Diacritics founder David Grossvogel dies at 94

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Philip Lewis
Related Department or Program: Romance Studies, Comparative Literature

Selected Shorts: Escalation (audio)

Symphony Space and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Art history Ph.D. candidate wins Newcombe Fellowship

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Graduate student Lara Fresko Madra
Related Department or Program: History of Art and Visual Studies, Archaeology Program

Protestors Aren’t Destroying History, They Are Recasting It

Public Seminar
Related People: Kelly King-O’Brien
Related Department or Program: John S. Knight Institute, History

Social Sciences

"The pandemic has served as a pretext to boost populism more strongly" (Spanish)

Cien Radio
Related People: Gustavo A. Flores-Macías
Related Department or Program: Government

Simulating COVID Spread in College Setting

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

How the Pandemic Should Shake up Economics

CGTN and 8 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Timeout part 2: Cornell graduate student and alumni reflections

Alumni Affairs & Development
Related People: Graduate student Alexander Matika
Related Department or Program: Anthropology

All Things Equal 6-23-20

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

Fleeing or Flocking? Challenges to the Asian American Political Identity in the Age of COVID-19

Medium
Related People: Sergio I Garcia-Rios
Related Department or Program: Latina/o Studies Program, Government

The battle of the governors

The Hill
Related People: Steve Israel
Related Department or Program: Government

New York primary elections signify next generation of political leaders

The Hill
Related People: Steve Israel
Related Department or Program: Government

‘When I hear Black Lives Matter, I want to focus on the lives.' After policing, a host of other systems await reform

Boston Globe and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Jamila Michener
Related Department or Program: Government

(Virtual) Things to Do, June 26-July 31

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Kenneth Roberts , Phil Shapiro, M.A. ’69
Related Department or Program: Government

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Aunt Jemima Is Based On a Caricature, But a Real Black Woman, Nancy Green, Was Hired to Portray Her

Good Housekeeping and 40 other media outlets
Related People: Riché Richardson
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center

Richardson explores Rosa Parks’ life in new animated video

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Riché Richardson
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center

College towns have been clobbered by COVID-19

The Hill and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Putting the fake news genie back in the bottle

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

Amid calls for racial equality, people question why 'beauty means white skin'

CGTN
Related People: Graduate student Liu Zifeng
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center

DACA decision greeted with cautious optimism

A&S Communications
Related People: Vilma Santiago-Irizarry
Related Department or Program: Sociology, Performing and Media Arts, Literatures in English, Latina/o Studies Program, Government, Comparative Literature, Anthropology

Social Sciences, Sciences and Math, Humanities and Arts

Twenty-two Receive Awards Recognizing Inclusive Excellence

Graduate School
Related People: Sabrina Karim , Kara Peet, graduate students Lauren Genova, Renee Sifri, Marissa Rice, Stephen Kim
Related Department or Program: Psychology, Literatures in English, Government, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Cornell earns STARS platinum sustainability rating

Cornell Chronicle
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