A&S Media Report - 12/31/2020

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227 external media stories tracked
1 studio appearance arranged
8 Cornell Chronicle stories
2 Internal Cornell Platform stories
10 A&S Website stories
28 Tweets
5 Facebook posts
3 Instagram posts

Sciences and Math

Shortest day, longest night: The winter solstice is Monday

USA Today and 6 other media outlets
Related People: Rick Kline
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri

Scientific American
Related People: Shami Chatterjee
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Scientists think they've detected radio emissions from an alien world

Live Science and 51 other media outlets
Related People: Ray Jayawardhana , Jake Turner
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

Physics without fear: a course for students across disciplines


Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Natasha Holmes , Rachel Lubbe ’20, Phazione McClurge ’21
Related Department or Program: Physics

The Cosmologist Working to Preserve the Night Sky for the Future

Vice
Related People: Steven W. Squyres , Aparna Venkatesan '93
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Sex peptide causes female fruit fly’s gut to grow

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Mariana Federica Wolfner , graduate student Melissa White
Related Department or Program: Molecular Biology and Genetics

Data on armed conflict reveals patterns in violent chaos

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Christopher Myers
Related Department or Program: Physics

Extraterrestrial evidence: 10 incredible findings about aliens from 2020

Live Science and 12 other media outlets
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy

2020: The People Russia Lost

The Moscow Times
Related People: Yuri Orlov
Related Department or Program: Physics

Social Sciences

Musical experimentation: from Bowie to Rodgers, the 10 most famous records of the last 50 years (Italian)

Corriere Innovazione
Related People: Trevor J Pinch
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Native ironworkers’ tradition continues on North Campus

Cornell Chronicle
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Anthropology

Koç 'S 'Science Medal' 2 Women's Professor (Turkish)

Sabah and 38 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Finding your North Star: aligning your purpose and your paycheck

Alumni Affairs & Development
Related People: Dan Schiff ’05
Related Department or Program: Government

How to spend your money for maximum happiness

Popular Science and 7 other media outlets
Related People: Thomas D. Gilovich , Amit Kumar, Ph.D. ’15
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Professor chases plastic all the way to Ultimate Hall of Fame

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Vivian Zayas
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Here is the good news of 2020

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

Is Trump’s Coup a ‘Dress Rehearsal?’

New York Magazine and 4 other media outlets
Related People: Valerie Jane Bunce
Related Department or Program: Government

False Narratives About New Farm Laws Hurting Farmers' Interests: Niti Aayog Vice Chairman

Republic World and 50 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Survey: UK teens are more likely than millennials to believe in God

Religion News Service and 4 other media outlets
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Sociology

For a post-nationalist Biden

CGTN and 4 other media outlets
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

The books about Donald Trump that will never be written by his loyalists

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

Humanities and Arts

Have Yourself a Revolutionary, Bachian Christmas

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

Thai protesters fail to bend government to demands

Irish Times and 4 other media outlets
Related People: Tamara Loos
Related Department or Program: History

Active Latin at Jesus College

Oxford Latinitas Project
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Classics

The 15 Best Books of 2020

The Atlantic
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Reginald Foster, World's Renowned Latinist, Dies At 81

NPR
Related People: Daniel Gallagher
Related Department or Program: Classics

2020 was a difficult year for many, but according to historians, it's not the most stressful year in U.S. history

CBS News
Related People:
Related Department or Program: History

Father Reginald Foster Used Latin to Bring History Into the Present

Smithsonian.com and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Mike Fontaine
Related Department or Program: Classics

Sciences and Math, Other

Celebrating December grads after ‘a semester like no other’

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Siddharth Venkatesh ’21
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior

Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts

A&S students compete in December business competitions


A&S Communications
Related People: Abhivad Prasad ’20, Aditya Narayanan ’21, Ananth Palaniappan ’21,Annie Sheng PhD ’21, Ariana Gamarra ’21, Tyler Weisman ’22, Abenazer Mekete ’22, Anna Hu ’22, Elsie Wei ’23, Ruoxi Li ’22, Jack Stettner ’22, Rafael Bastidas ’22, Jordyn Goldzweig ’21, Max B
Related Department or Program: Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology

Joe Biden needs a new communications strategy

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

Students and faculty urge deeper look at land-grant legacy

High Country News and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Jon W. Parmenter
Related Department or Program: History, Anthropology

America's dangerous distraction

Strait Times
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Students petition for refugee’s release from detention center

A&S Communications
Related People: Jane Juffer , Zasu Scott ’22, Prameela Kottapalli ’23, Emma DiGiovanni ’21
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Nurturing Hyper-Systematizers, Including Autistic People

Psychology Today Blog
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Social Sciences, Sciences and Math, Humanities and Arts

Professor shares immersive VR project to fight racism

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity
Related People: Aviva Munoz ‘23, Anderson Rogers ‘23, Andres Murillo ’24
Related Department or Program: Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

2020 in review: COVID-19 was the story

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Julia Thom-Levy , Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54, Harold Scheraga, Alison Lurie
Related Department or Program: Physics, Literatures in English, Government, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomy
 
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