A&S Media Report - 2/2/2024

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180 external media stories tracked
2 press release tip sheets distributed
9 Cornell Chronicle stories
1 Internal Cornell Platform story
3 Cornell Daily Sun stories
1 Cornellians story
11 A&S Website stories
23 Tweets
3 Facebook posts
10 Instagram posts

Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences

Rising stars: Harrison Award honors recent alumni leaders

Alumni Affairs and Development
Related People: Dana Lerner ’14, Katia Lin ’14
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts, History of Art and Visual Studies, Economics, Government

Biography addresses John Lewis’ life of challenges and courage

Florida Courier
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

'The Tyranny of the Minority': How US democracy is under threat - review

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

Amend the Constitution to guarantee Americans the right to vote

The Hill and 4 other media outlets
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Cornell R.S.H. College Scholar Program Approves Bitcoin-Focused Study

Forbes and 5 other media outlets
Related People: Ella Hough, undergraduate
Related Department or Program: Harrison College Scholar

Armenian Cultural Heritage in Karabakh Threatened; Monitoring Group Calls on Baku for Assurances

Hetq
Related People: Lori Khatchadourian, Adam T. Smith
Related Department or Program: Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology Program

Speaker series to examine antisemitism, Islamophobia

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Ross Brann, Deborah A. Starr, Rachel Bean, Jason Sion Mokhtarian
Related Department or Program: Near Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies Program, Religious Studies Program, Society for the Humanities

Humanities and Arts

R.I.P., P. D. Q.

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

The Hittites: 3 years of drought were enough to bring down ancient Egypt's main rival (French)

L'Humanite
Related People: Sturt Manning
Related Department or Program: Classics

The Great Leaders of Antiquity Explained in 60 Minutes - Barry Strauss (audio)

Trigger-nometry podcast
Related People: Barry Stuart Strauss
Related Department or Program: History, Classics

Congressional Hearings Are a Pretext for Assault on Higher Education

Consequence
Related People: Cathy Caruth
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Mix-up at US base may have led to deadly drone attack that killed 3 troops: Updates

USA Today and 6 other media outlets
Related People: David Silbey
Related Department or Program: History

Native Bidaské with Jeffrey Palmer (Kiowa) on his feature film, "N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear

Native News Online and 5 other media outlets
Related People: Jeffrey Palmer
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts

The Mathias Corvinus Collegium is organizing a large-scale conference on the most pressing issues of education (Hungarian)

Magyar Nemzet and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Barry Stuart Strauss
Related Department or Program: History, Classics

Iran has little incentive to dissuade proxy attacks against US troops

A&S Communications
Related People: David Silbey
Related Department or Program: History

Doctors have fatphobia, too — which does serious harm to patients

Washington Post
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

Asia’s commercial heft helps keep Russia’s war economy going

The Economist and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Nicholas Mulder
Related Department or Program: History

The Current with Matt Galloway (audio, begins 23:10)

CBC Radio and 37 other media outlets
Related People: Kate A. Manne
Related Department or Program: Philosophy

The Musical Patriot: Prelude to the Fall of the House of Usher

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

Sciences and Math

The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal

Quanta Magazine
Related People: John H. Hubbard
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

This Planned NASA Telescope May Help Us Identify Worlds Like Our Own

Smithsonian Magazine and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Researchers develop new model to predict surface atom scattering

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Tomas Arias , Michelle Kelley MS '18, PhD '23
Related Department or Program: Physics

Researchers develop new model to predict surface atom scattering

Phys.org and 3 other media outlets
Related People: Tomas Arias , Michelle Kelley MS '18, PhD '23
Related Department or Program: Physics

Tiny worm offers window into important protein modifications

A&S Communications
Related People: Frank C. Schroeder , Bingsen Zhang, graduate student
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

How to Build an Origami Computer

Quanta Magazine
Related People: Inna Zakharevich
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

'Flawed' material resolves superconductor conundrum

Phys.org and 5 other media outlets
Related People: Kyle Shen , Christopher Parzyck, Ph.D. ’23, postdoc
Related Department or Program: Physics

‘Flawed’ material resolves superconductor conundrum

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Kyle Shen , Christopher Parzyck, Ph.D. ’23, postdoc
Related Department or Program: Physics

What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics? (audio)

Quanta Magazine
Related People: Steven Strogatz
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Why interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua and Borisov may hold clues to exoplanets

Ars Technica and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Darryl Seligman
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Social Sciences

Bukele, the iron fist leader without rival in El Salvador’s elections

El País and 8 other media outlets
Related People: Gustavo A. Flores-Macías
Related Department or Program: Government

DISGUST: Why it's both a necessity and a problem (audio, a rebroadcast)

CBC Radio and 29 other media outlets
Related People: David A. Pizarro
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Opinion: That pain in your back? It’s really a pain in your brain

Los Angeles Times and 8 other media outlets
Related People: Nathaniel Frank
Related Department or Program: Center for the Study of Inequality

Cornell scholar: Biden should bypass Bibi, appeal directly to Israelis

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

Has the Justice Department Just Issued a Warning to the CIA?

Verdict
Related People: Joseph Margulies
Related Department or Program: Government

Reason to be Happy review: Can thinking logically make us happier?

New Scientist and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Mouse social calls and distress calls linked to different neurons

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Katherine Tschida , Patryk Ziobro, graduate student, Yena Woo ’24 and Zichen He ’22
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Tragedy, Foresight and the Carceral State

Verdict
Related People: Joseph Margulies
Related Department or Program: Government

Cornell Latin American politics expert on El Salvador election

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

Humanities and Arts, Sciences and Math, Social Sciences

Twelve new Klarman Fellows to pursue innovative, timely research in A&S

A&S Communications
Related People: Nikole Lewis, Benjamin Anderson, Eric Rebillard, Raymond B. Craib, George Hutchinson, Saida Hodžić, Jill Frank, Alex Townsend, Vivian Zayas, Steven Strogatz, Martin Kassabov, Alexander Livingston, Ziad Fahmy, Deborah A. Starr
Related Department or Program: Anthropology, Astronomy, Classics, Government, History, History of Art and Visual Studies, Literatures in English, Mathematics, Near Eastern Studies, Psychology

Humanities and Arts, Sciences and Math

‘Cosmos’ screening features ice cream and live Q&A with Ann Druyan

A&S Communications
Related People: Gillis Lowry '24, Molly Ryan
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell Cinema

Other

Founded by Undergrads, Service Groups Are Still Going Strong

Cornellians
Related People: Fatema Gunja Sumar ’01, George Hornedo ’13
Related Department or Program: Government

Students debate free speech in the workplace

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Ram Orfanel ’25 and Abigel Manaye ’24
Related Department or Program:
 
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