A&S Media Report - 7/10/2020

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46 external media stories tracked
3 press release tip sheets distributed
8 Cornell Chronicle stories
1 Internal Cornell Platform story
1 Cornell Daily Sun story
12 A&S Website stories
24 Tweets
9 Facebook posts
2 Instagram posts

Humanities and Arts

The War on Kitsch

CounterPunch
Related People: David Yearsley
Related Department or Program: Music

Ten Short Essays

The Literary Review
Related People: J. Robert Lennon
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Archaeologists Got One Thing Wrong About North American Indigenous History

Inverse and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Sturt Manning
Related Department or Program: Classics, Archaeology Program

What Can Bonobos Teach Us About the Nature of Language?

Smithsonian.com
Related People: Laurent Dubreuil
Related Department or Program: Romance Studies, Comparative Literature, Cognitive Science Program

The Long History of Drinking Games—And How to Win Them

Time Magazine and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Mike Fontaine
Related Department or Program: Classics

Grant to fund creation of digital archive for local poetry press

Ithaca Voice
Related People: Graduate student Marty Cain
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

The Emperor’s Closet—Power and Storage

Cornell Research
Related People: Astrid Van Oyen
Related Department or Program: Classics, Archaeology Program

New book echoes conference on classics, media theory

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Verity Platt
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, History of Art and Visual Studies, Classics

Morricone: Maestro of Music and Image

CounterPunch
Related People: David Yearsley
Related Department or Program: Music

Social Sciences

Hit by coronavirus and economic slump, India must build a society that is empathetic and inclusive

Scroll.in
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Hospital ratings often depend more on nice rooms than on health care

Washington Post and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Explained Ideas: How India’s lockdown hurt the economy without slowing down Covid-19 infections

The Indian Express and 5 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Contact-tracing apps have been a disaster, but could they still save us?

Digital Trends and 4 other media outlets
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Electoral College is a vestige of a racist past

Newsday
Related People: Steve Israel
Related Department or Program: Government

Will Donald Trump use statues to divide the nation in the election?

The Hill and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Steve Israel
Related Department or Program: Government

AMLO’s White House visit shows Mexico’s dependence on U.S.

A&S Communications
Related People: Gustavo A. Flores-Macías
Related Department or Program: Government

Sciences and Math

Astronomer Martha Haynes awarded Jansky Lectureship


A&S Communications
Related People: Martha P. Haynes
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

When imaging atoms, blurrier is better

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Sol Gruner
Related Department or Program: Physics

Low-dose ptychography for sub-angstrom imaging

Microscopy Analysis
Related People: Sol Gruner
Related Department or Program: Physics

From fashion to fertility: CCMR pairs NY startups with faculty

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Brett P. Fors
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Chemistry students offer summer session for peers

A&S Communications
Related People: Stephen Lee , Ashley Contreras ’22, Gabriela Martin ’22, Emmanuella Brewu-Sarpong ’23, Alex Castroverde ’23
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Milky Way neutron star pair illuminate cosmic cataclysms

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Shami Chatterjee
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Amid a fevered campaign, America faces a reckoning with its past

The Straits Times
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

NYC school reopening plan puts vulnerable Black, Latinx students at risk

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

Assié-Lumumba leads Institute for African Development

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

Adult University goes virtual with free ‘education vacations’

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Mike Fontaine , Corey Ryan Earle ’07
Related Department or Program: Classics, American Studies Program

What makes some overcome evil, while others are coopted and destroyed?

Jerusalem Post
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program:

Other

Alum establishes scholarship for Black students

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Ray Jayawardhana
Related Department or Program:
 
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