A&S Media Report - 10/16/2026

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STATS AT A GLANCE:
1,722 external media stories tracked
1 studio appearances arranged
4 Cornell Chronicle stories
2 Cornell Daily Sun stories
2 Cornellians stories
5 A&S website stories
2 X posts
2 Facebook posts
2 LinkedIn posts

Social Sciences

Dario Amodei Wants to Make Sure It Gets Both Democrats and Republicans on Its Side as It Hires

Times of India
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Top Democrats and Allies Join the Wealthiest to Fight a California Billionaire Tax

US News & World Report and 242 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

AI brings new risks for kids

Arkansas Democrat Gazette and 10 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Cornell lecture to explore Indigenous languages of Cayuga Lake region

WBNG
Related People: Kurt A. Jordan, John B. Whitman , Stephen Henhawk
Related Department or Program: Linguistics, Anthropology

Meet a 23-year-old millionaire who canceled his plan to move to San Francisco because of a billionaire tax he might never have to pay

Fortune
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Library exhibit highlights endangered languages

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: John B. Whitman
Related Department or Program: Linguistics

Sciences and Math

Ariel's "eyes" will investigate the nature of extrasolar planets (Italian)

L'Eco di Bergamo
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Math Vs Machine (audio)

RadioLab
Related People: Steven Strogatz
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Marohn elected fellow of American Physical Society

A&S Communications
Related People: John A. Marohn
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

AI is steamrolling through math. Why does that matter? (audio)

WBUR and 290 other media outlets
Related People: Steven Strogatz
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

When AI comes for your purpose in life (audio)

New York Times
Related People: Steven Strogatz
Related Department or Program: Mathematics

Tiny platform creates and directs microbubbles on demand

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Itai Cohen , Zhiyuan Zhang
Related Department or Program: Physics

Trailblazing technique uncovers real shape of scorching-hot exoplanet atmospheres

Phys.org and 86 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Lili Alderson, Klarman Fellow
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Pulling strings: New method maps exoplanet’s true shape

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Nikole Lewis, Maura Lally, Elijah Mullens , graduate students; Lili Anderson, Klarman Fellow,
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Excitement mounts as new telescope nears first light

A&S Communications
Related People: Michael Niemack, Nicholas Battaglia, Martha P. Haynes, Abigail Crites
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Chemist receives DOE Early Career award

A&S Communications
Related People: Youn Jue (Eunice) Bae
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Scientists find 'gemstones' in atmosphere of bizarre, scorching-hot 'marshmallow' exoplanet

Space.com
Related People: Lili Alderson
Related Department or Program: Astronomy

Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences

Trump is waging all-out war against journalists

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

Your October 2026 Reads

Cornellians
Related People: Joseph Margulies, George Hutchinson , multiple alumni
Related Department or Program: History, Government, Anthropology, Literatures in English

‘The New Population Problem’ examined in Phi Beta Kappa lecture Oct. 28

A&S Communications
Related People: Laura Brown
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Events celebrate history of languages throughout America

A&S Communications
Related People: Brenda Schertz, Abigail C Cohn, John B. Whitman, Molly Diesing, Angelika Kraemer
Related Department or Program: Language Resource Center, Linguistics

Humanities and Arts

Literature and colonial memory in the book “Other Histories from the Archive of the Indies” (Spanish)

El Comercio
Related People: Edmundo Paz-Soldan
Related Department or Program: Romance Studies

The Trump Administration’s Cosmic Battle

New York Times
Related People: Kim Haines-Eitzen
Related Department or Program: Near Eastern Studies, Religious Studies Program

Soprano Dawn Upshaw visits campus as A.D. White Professor-at-Large

A&S Communications
Related People: Jean Bernard Cerin
Related Department or Program: Music

ALL THINGS LOCAL 10-13-26 (audio)

WHCU
Related People: Molly Ryan
Related Department or Program: Cornell Cinema

Sociologist Who Studies Climate Change Wins MacArthur Fellowship

Cornellians
Related People: Manuel Muñoz, MFA ’98, Ling Ma, MFA ’16
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

Trump’s Birthday Gift to Putin Is Only Half the Story

Bloomberg and 4 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Nicholas Mulder
Related Department or Program: History

About money, sex and prostitution: A 300-year-old lost Lüneburg comedy rediscovered (German)

Landeszeitung
Related People: Mike Fontaine
Related Department or Program: Classics

Play by 17th Century German Cleric Adapting Dirty Ancient Roman Comedy to King David Story Is Rediscovered

Haaretz and 1 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Mike Fontaine
Related Department or Program: Classics

Long Island 'No Kings' Protests Part of Movement's Aim to Juice Turnout for Midterms

Newsday
Related People: Lawrence B. Glickman
Related Department or Program: History, American Studies Program

Other

A&S Career Development gets facelift, joins new collaborations across campus

A&S Communications
Related People: Jennifer Maclaughlin, Natalie Deng ’27
Related Department or Program:

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham ’86 to talk startups Oct. 28

Cornell Chronicle
Related People:
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