A&S Media Report - 10/2/2020

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458 external media stories tracked
6 press release tip sheets distributed
7 Cornell Chronicle stories
2 Internal Cornell Platform stories
3 Cornell Daily Sun stories
13 A&S Website stories
23 Tweets
6 Facebook posts
5 Instagram posts

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Experts: Rate of learning loss amid coronavirus could be severe on N. Shore

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

“Fabrication” theme weaves through virtual 10-Minute Play Festival


A&S Communications
Related People: Graduate students Zhen Cheng, Kristen Wright, Caitlin Kane, Kelly Richmond, Andrew Colpitts; Phillip Teixeira Dasilva ’22, Cole Romero ’22, Arin Sheehan ’22, Quinn Theobald '22, John Colie ’23
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts, Africana Studies and Research Center

Alumna Spotlight: Yagna Nag Chowdhuri, Ph.D.

Graduate School
Related People: Yagna Nag Chowdhuri, Ph.D. ’20
Related Department or Program: Asian Studies

California Ethnic Studies Plan Undercuts Itself

Bloomberg and 1 other media outlet
Related People:
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program, Africana Studies and Research Center

Humanities and Arts

Keeping It Eel: How One Historian Is Using Twitter and Medieval Factoids to Help Endangered Animals

Time Magazine
Related People: John Wyatt Greenlee Ph.D. '20
Related Department or Program: Medieval Studies Program

Harlem's Schomburg Center Announces 2020-21 Fellows Scholars-In-Residence

Harlem World Magazine
Related People: Russell Rickford
Related Department or Program: History

Q&A with Kate Manne

Ithaca Times
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Instrumental music faculty get creative in light of pandemic


A&S Communications
Related People: Paul Merrill
Related Department or Program: Music

Ithaca's 5th Annual Latinx Film Festival 'Cine con Cultura' Goes Virtual

WENY
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Cornell Cinema

Bach’s Final Audit

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

Social Sciences

SCOTUS nominee represents the religious American woman


A&S Communications
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Sociology

‘Classic Authoritarian’: How Historians Rate Trump’s Danger to Democracy

New York Magazine
Related People: Valerie Jane Bunce
Related Department or Program: Government

Research division HR head elected to Board of Trustees

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Abigail C Cohn , Reginald White ’80
Related Department or Program: Linguistics

Experts: Acknowledge uncertainty in COVID communication

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

‘Be your own judge’: how to avoid debate misinformation


A&S Communications
Related People: Alexandra E. Cirone
Related Department or Program: Government

Travel was once our favorite form of self-care. Here’s how to get that vacation high now

St. Louis Post-Dispatch and 35 other media outlets
Related People: Thomas D. Gilovich
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Local leaders start series of discussions on pandemic’s human rights impact

The Ithaca Voice
Related People: Jamila Michener
Related Department or Program: Government

American democracy is on the ropes

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

Polls, voters and election 2020: A&S webinar on Oct. 19


A&S Communications
Related People: Sergio I Garcia-Rios , Marc Lacey ’87
Related Department or Program: Latina/o Studies Program, Government

Sen. Tom O'Mara and Opponent, Leslie Danks Burke Have Virtual Debate

WENY News and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Sabrina Karim
Related Department or Program: Government

Collection Highlights Native American Artifacts From Central NY

WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Anthropology

'It's a Very Unusual Situation.' What the Motion to Release the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Records Says About the Case

Time Magazine
Related People: Joseph Margulies
Related Department or Program: Government

Trump's positive test 'demolishes' his COVID-19 narrative


A&S Communications
Related People: Douglas L. Kriner
Related Department or Program: Government

Misinformation spikes as Trump confirms COVID-19 diagnosis

Washington Post and 309 other media outlets
Related People: Alexandra E. Cirone
Related Department or Program: Government

Difficulties in communicating COVID-19 science made clear in new study

Medical News Today and 25 other media outlets
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Sciences and Math

Arthur Ashkin, 98, Dies; Nobel Laureate Invented a ‘Tractor Beam’

New York Times
Related People: Arthur Ashkin Ph.D. '52
Related Department or Program: Physics

Scientists create a microscopic robot that ‘walks’

BBC and 18 other media outlets
Related People: Paul McEuen
Related Department or Program: Physics

Sounds like a new type of superconductor

Materials Today and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Brad Ramshaw
Related Department or Program: Physics

NASA sent a map to space to help aliens find Earth. Now it needs an update.

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

Superfluid shows more surprising phenomena

Technology
Related People: Jeevak Parpia
Related Department or Program: Physics

Nobel-winning physicist Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, dies at 98

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Michelle Wang , Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52
Related Department or Program: Physics

PhD student–adviser pairing is critical, but in US physics departments it’s often haphazard

Physics Today
Related People: James Sethna
Related Department or Program: Physics

Moduli Spaces—a New Approach

Cornell Research
Related People: Daniel Halpern-Leistner
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Social Sciences, Sciences and Math, Humanities and Arts

Gift supports A&S visiting journalist program, Cornell Tech

Ezra
Related People: Ray Jayawardhana Jan Rock Zubrow ’77, Marc Lacey ’87, Jay Branegan ’72, Rose Gutfeld Edwards ’78
Related Department or Program:

Social Sciences, Sciences and Math

Yuri Orlov, physicist who became a symbol of Soviet dissent, dies at 96

Washington Post and 25 other media outlets
Related People: Yuri Orlov
Related Department or Program: Physics, Government

Renowned dissident Yuri Orlov, professor emeritus, dies at 96

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Yuri Orlov
Related Department or Program: Physics, Government
 
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