A&S Media Report - 3/28/2025

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1896 external media stories tracked
2 press releases/tip sheets distributed
13 Cornell Chronicle
1 Internal Cornell platforms
9 Cornell Daily Sun story
11 A&S website
11 Tweets
5 Facebook
3 Instagram posts and 4 event stories

Sciences and Math

How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?

WGBH and 25 other media outlets
Related People: Steven Strogatz
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Microsoft’s Claim of a Topological Qubit Faces Tough Questions

Physics Magazine and 5 other media outlets
Related People: Eun-Ah Kim
Related Department or Program: Physics

So where are they? (Spanish)

ABC.es
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Biomedical and Biological Sciences Ph.D. Candidate Wins 2025 Three Minute Thesis Competition

Graduate School
Related People: Sara Miller
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Quantum mechanics with a twist: spring 2025 Bethe lecture

A&S Communications
Related People: Katja Nowack
Related Department or Program: Physics

Amine oxides step up

Nature
Related People: Phillip Milner, Tristan Lambert , Sijing Meng, graduate student
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Why is there more matter than antimatter? CERN result offers tantalizing new clue

Nature
Related People: Yuval Grossman
Related Department or Program: Physics

Five early-career professors win NSF development awards

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Leslie Babonis, Xiaomeng Liu
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Physics

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Wired and 13 other media outlets
Related People: Paul Ginsparg
Related Department or Program: Physics

Admitted Class of 2029 channels passions into knowledge

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Naomi Axelrod '29
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Can a strong bond with one’s mother lead to a longer life? (German)

Merkur.de and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Matthew Zipple , Klarman Fellow
Related Department or Program: Neurobiology and Behavior

Putting the Brakes on Bacterial Mobility: A New Approach to Fighting Disease

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Brian Crane , Michael Lynch
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

AAAS names 2024 Fellows

Science
Related People: Jed P. Sparks
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Farewell to Gaia, the Milky Way’s Cartographe

New York Times and 11 other media outlets
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Ecologist Jed Sparks elected AAAS Fellow

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Jed P. Sparks
Related Department or Program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Humanities and Arts

Bayeux Fever

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

Professor’s book probes afterlife of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Irina Troconis
Related Department or Program: Romance Studies

PMA brings musical to Edinburgh Fringe Festival

A&S Communications
Related People: Multiple students
Related Department or Program: Performing and Media Arts

Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

NPR and 123 other media outlets
Related People: Verity Platt
Related Department or Program: Classics

Cornell Cinema to host screening of The Accelerator, film on physicist Robert R. Wilson

Cornell Chronicle
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Cornell Cinema

French university honors Jonathan Culler for literary contributions

A&S Communications
Related People: Jonathan D. Culler, Anne Berger, Philip Lewis
Related Department or Program: Comparative Literature, Literatures in English

Easy Way to Understand the Meaning of Arabic to Indonesian, Here's the Complete Guide (Indonesian)

L Liputan6 and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Munther A. Younes
Related Department or Program: Near Eastern Studies

Social Sciences

Archaeologists Discovered a 1,700-Year-Old Statue of Hercules—Without His Head

Popular Mechanics and 2 other media outlets
Related People: Alexander Cooper-Bohler ’25
Related Department or Program: Archaeology Program , CIAMS

El Salvador says families can file complaints over unjust detention in notorious mega-prison

CNN and 19 other media outlets
Related People: Gustavo A. Flores-Macías
Related Department or Program: Government

Without Shame, Democracy Becomes Just a Game

Kompas
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Book calls social scientists to robust ‘multiverse’ analysis

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Kill shots and mass arrests: Diving into the wild world of COVID conspiracy

National Post and 66 other media outlets
Related People: Gordon Pennycook
Related Department or Program: Psychology

President Trump places 25% tariff on imported cars (video, begins 1:00)

KTVU and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Gustavo A. Flores-Macías
Related Department or Program: Government

How Trump could scrap Chips Act funding

FDI Intelligence and 1 other media outlet
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences

A college education still easily beats the alternatives

The Hill and 5 other media outlets
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Review: Root, root, root for the home team

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Review: Have we underestimated Yoko Ono all along?

Kansas City Star and 11 other media outlets
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Other

Day-long conference celebrates Cornell Atkinson at 15

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Anne Thompson, DVJ
Related Department or Program:
 
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