A&S Media Report - 8/14/20

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252 external media stories tracked
4 press release tip sheets distributed
8 Cornell Chronicle stories
1 Internal Cornell Platform story
3 Cornell Daily Sun stories
12 A&S Website stories
18 Tweets
4 Facebook posts

Social Sciences

Commentary: Common sense lacking in a world of COVID-19

Channel News Asia and 4 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Trump ramps up appeals to suburban voters

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

It’s likely that growth in 2020-21 will be the lowest since 1947, says Kaushik Basu

Times Now and 32 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program:

China just arrested a top Hong Kong pro-democracy figure. Beijing isn’t playing around.

Vox and 5 other media outlets
Related People: Allen R. Carlson
Related Department or Program: Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

Book casts doubt on notion of ‘imperial presidency’

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Douglas L. Kriner
Related Department or Program: Government

What’s in it for a politician not to wear a mask?

Deseret News
Related People: Thomas Pepinsky
Related Department or Program: Government

Roper Center at Cornell University Debuts Historical Archives on Polling of Blacks

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Related People: Peter K. Enns
Related Department or Program: Government

Study: Machine learning can predict market behavior

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: David Easley
Related Department or Program: Economics

Mettler explores threats to US democracy in new book

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Suzanne Mettler
Related Department or Program: Government

Contact Tracing Is Having a Trust Crisis

Bloomberg
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Kamala Harris Brings Experience and Law-and-Order Baggage to Biden Ticket

Bloomberg and 22 other media outlets
Related People: Peter K. Enns
Related Department or Program: Government

Mandatory Masks Make Life Difficult for Hearing Impaired (video)

Voice of America
Related People: Brenda Schertz
Related Department or Program: Linguistics

Cheesemaking in Nepal under threat unless pastoralist traditions are revived

Phys.org
Related People: Graduate student Austin Lord
Related Department or Program: Anthropology

Israel-UAE pact timing ‘could not be better’ for Netanyahu

A&S Communications
Related People: Uriel Abulof
Related Department or Program: Government

History tells us there are four key threats to U.S. democracy

The Washington Post and 10 other media outlets
Related People: Suzanne Mettler
Related Department or Program: Government

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Discussion Begins on When the Statues Fall in the V.I.

The St. Croix Source
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Archaeology Program

Trump's contempt for advice and consent

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

Smithsonian dream comes true for A&S student


A&S Communications
Related People: , Harper Tooch ’21
Related Department or Program: History of Art and Visual Studies, Archaeology Program, Anthropology

How Women Are Treated on the Stump’

Politico and 7 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center

For UNESCO, the real challenge is education: only with an inclusive school can a future be imagined (Italian)

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

Polls suggest broad approval of Biden's VP pick, but some aren't sold on Harris

KATU and 32 other media outlets
Related People: Carole Boyce Davies
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, Africana Studies and Research Center

Sciences and Math

Molecular study could improve climate change modeling

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Paul Lyon Houston
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Researchers Study Violinists To Learn How Humans Act in Synchrony

Inside Science
Related People: Steven Strogatz
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

He Doesn’t Mind Being Shared, Unless His Mates Try to Eat Each Other’s Eggs

New York Times and 4 other media outlets
Related People: Kelly Zamudio
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

McMahon, Ramshaw named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Brad Ramshaw
Related Department or Program: Physics

A&S dean Ray Jayawardhana awarded Carl Sagan Medal

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

Humanities and Arts

Harris VP pick emblematic of surge in black women leaders


A&S Communications
Related People: Carole Boyce Davies
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, Africana Studies and Research Center

Male entitlement hurts women, Manne writes in new book

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Recalibration is the biggest shake-up in the carbon dating world for seven years

Chemistry World and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Sturt Manning
Related Department or Program: Classics, Archaeology Program

‘Entitled’ Takes a Scalpel to What Men Feel They Automatically Deserve

New York Times and 24 other media outlets
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

World Economic Forum features history professor’s analysis

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Nicholas Mulder
Related Department or Program: History

As Harris Launches Candidacy, Conservatives Take Aim At Her Black And Indian Heritage

NPR and 6 other media outlets
Related People: Margaret Washington
Related Department or Program: History

My Country Is Under Attack

New York Times and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Valzhyna Mort
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Other

Alumni startup: making student votes count

Alumni Affairs & Development
Related People: Juliana Bain ’20, Devki Trivedi ’20
Related Department or Program:
 
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