A&S Media Report - 8/28/2020

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279 external media stories tracked
1 press release tip sheet distributed
9 Cornell Chronicle stories
3 Internal Cornell Platform stories
1 Cornell Daily Sun story
15 A&S Website stories
16 Tweets
3 Facebook posts
1 Instagram post

Social Sciences

Pandemics Are Political

Broadstreet
Related People: Alexandra E. Cirone
Related Department or Program: Government

China has big plans in space, but they're not about gaining military might

Business Insider
Related People: Graduate student R. Lincoln Hines
Related Department or Program: Government

Seven Graduate Students Receive Wu Scholarships

Graduate School
Related People: Graduate student Wanheng Hu
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies

Project to investigate digital ag’s impacts on rural America

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Phoebe Sengers
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies

Racism has devastating health effects on Black people, studies show.

San Francisco Chronicle and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Jamila Michener
Related Department or Program: Government

Public outrage derailed Trump’s plans to slow the mail. That’s what keeps presidents in check.

The Washington Post
Related People: Douglas L. Kriner
Related Department or Program: Government

Democrats must battle social media disinformation attack with the facts

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

Protein, Territory, Isolation

Perspectives on History
Related People: Graduate student Jeffrey Mathias
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies

Looking for a book to read in quarantine? Here's 6 new reads from local authors

Cincinnati Enquirer
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Psychology

India’s ease of doing business ranking may be hit as World Bank orders review

LiveMint and 7 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Vigilantes claim to preserve law and order. Their true goal is to save Whiteness.

The Washington Post
Related People: Joseph Margulies
Related Department or Program: Government

Local budget shortfalls alter the racial disparities in traffic stops

Washington Post
Related People: Jamila Michener
Related Department or Program: Government

US-China relations: Joe Biden would approach China with more ‘regularity and normality’ (video)

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

Commentary: The hope for change in a Biden-Harris US election win

Channel News Asia and 9 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Have we no Republicans with any conscience to declare?

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

A&S to launch ‘Racism in America’ webinar series Sept. 16


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

Horner ’14 gets foot in door at entrepreneurial venture

Cornell Athletics
Related People: Carolyn Horner '14
Related Department or Program: Government, Asian Studies

The Promise of Kamala Harris

The Crisis Magazine
Related People: Carole Boyce Davies
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, Africana Studies and Research Center

Humanities and Arts

Authors, poets, scholars celebrate Morrison in ‘Bluest Eye’ reading


A&S Communications
Related People: Riché Richardson
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English, Africana Studies and Research Center

The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak

Quillette
Related People: Graduate student Philippe Lemoine
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

The World as a Problem Never Fully Solved

Los Angeles Review of Books
Related People: Benjamin D. Piekut
Related Department or Program: Music

Live student theatre festival goes online


A&S Communications
Related People: Arin Sheehan ’22
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts

Central Park is unveiling a statue of women's rights pioneers. It's the park's first statue of real women

CNN-US and 9 other media outlets
Related People: Margaret Washington
Related Department or Program: History

Revised tree ring data confirms ancient Mediterranean dates

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Sturt Manning , Brita Lorentzen
Related Department or Program: Classics, Archaeology Program

RNC: None Shall Sleep

CounterPunch and 1 other media outlet
Related People: David Yearsley
Related Department or Program: Music

Philosopher Nicholas Sturgeon dies at age 77

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Terence Irwin
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Social Sciences, Sciences and Math, Humanities and Arts

The College Welcomes New Faculty for 2020-21

A&S Communications
Related People: Xin Zhou , Helena Aparicio, Leslie Babonis, Amiel Bize, Todd Hyster,
Related Department or Program: Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Romance Studies, Psychology, Physics, Performing and Media Arts, Near Eastern Studies, Mathematics, Linguistics, History of Art and Visual Studies, History, Government, Economics, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Africana Studies and Research Center

How our current times are changing the curriculum

A&S Communications
Related People: Suman Seth
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies, Government

Sciences and Math

Nanotech facility gets 5-year, $7.5M renewal from NSF

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

Student Spotlight: Manisha Munasinghe

Graduate School
Related People: Graduate student Manisha Munasinghe
Related Department or Program: Molecular Biology and Genetics

Active learning helps math department boost academic success

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Tara Holm , Alex Hanson '87
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Laser jolts microscopic electronic robots into motion

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Paul McEuen , Alejandro Cortese, Ph.D. ’19, Michael Cao ’14, graduate students Kyle Dorsey, Michael Reynolds
Related Department or Program: Physics

Injectable microscopic robots move a step closer to reality

Telegraph and 91 other media outlets
Related People: Paul McEuen
Related Department or Program: Physics

Brothers’ nonprofit feeds hungry in native Puerto Rico

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Héctor ’20, Joey Ibáñez ’23
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Alumni-fueled startups pitch clean-energy solutions

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Geoffrey W. Coates ,graduate students Hailey Scofield, Nathan Oakes, Gabriel G. Rodríguez-Calero, Ph.D. ’14, Kristina Hugar, Ph.D. ’15
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Other

Pair of Cornell students delivering groceries, supplies to quarantined peers

Ithaca Voice
Related People: Hannah Robins '23
Related Department or Program:

Peer pressure: Students promote culture of responsibility

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Bianca Santos-Declet ’23, Terence Burke ’21, Samantha Noland '20, Karen Saul Miller ’90
Related Department or Program:
 
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